April 2012
116 posts
juneandafter:
I envy you. Every moment
You can leave me.
I cannot
leave myself.
— Anna Swirszczynska, I Cannot
“I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday...”
– Jack Kerouac (via liketheopensea)
“You either like me or you don’t. It took me Twenty-something years to learn how...”
– Daniel Franzese. (via cherrywhore)
“Young girls are sad. They like to be; it makes them feel strong.”
– A.S. Byatt (Possession)
“She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things...”
– Joanne Harris (via moonhymns)
“But love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so...”
– Oscar Wilde (from ‘The Remarkable Rocket’)
“I used to think that I could never lose anyone if I photographed them enough. In...”
– Nan Goldin (via forestmilk)
“I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty....”
– Gandhi’s Prayer for Peace (via liketheopensea)
“I’m a sullen motherfucker, and I take some inspiration from artists that exude...”
– Paul Banks (via prontisimo)
“Will they gaze at a strip mall where a field had once been?
Will they think...”
– DR DOG / LIVIN’ A DREAM (via littledoeriver)
“When shit brings you down, just say ‘fuck it’, and eat yourself some...”
– David Sedaris (‘Me Talk Pretty One Day’)
“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via liketheopensea)
“People run from rain, but sit in bathtubs full of water.”
– Charles Bukowski (via bulletbabes)
“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
– Charles Bukowski (via razorbladesalvations)
“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, You must know sorrow as...”
– Naomi Shihab Nye (via heartmindawakening)
“Am I saying that the entire well-being of the world depends upon you? In some...”
– Emanuel, Jack Sigel (via liketheopensea)
“By nature, we do not perceive ourselves or others accurately. We magnify the...”
– Barry Grosskopf, Hidden in Plain Sight (via heartmindawakening)
“To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via liketheopensea)
“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For...”
– John Lennon (via liketheopensea)
“She loved that man madly, but in a delirious way of some kind; there was never...”
– Kerouac, On the Road (via unnamablerevelations)
“And lastly, forget yourself. Forget who you are when you are with him. Forget...”
– Nicole Mariano, Important Things To Forget (via juneandafter)
“I am leaning back and running with it and staring at the stars and I’m eleven,...”
– Bryan Lee O’Malley (via itsyhaus)
“The more you know, the sadder you get.”
– Stephen Colbert, I Am America (via flentes)
“And if you look a little closer, you’ll see that if a person believes that life...”
– I Wrote This For You: The Falling Or Rising (via creatingaquietmind)
“To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That’s what everybody does...”
– Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead (via creatingaquietmind)
“Lost really has to disparate meanings. Losing things is about the familiar...”
– Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost (via bookmania)
“I wish I were as close
To you as the wet skirt of
A salt girl to her body.
I...”
– Akahito (via thankyoudk)
“I don’t know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.”
– Ned Vizzini, It’s Kind of a Funny Story (via creatingaquietmind)
“Just as a physician might say that there very likely is not one single living...”
– Søren Kierkegaard (via pink-bullets)
“I’ve been rereading your story. I think it’s about me in a way that might not be...”
– Richard Siken (via stickyeyelids)
“Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms (via boxofoctaves)
“You know why sex in the afternoon is so good? Because sex in the morning is...”
– Jarvis Cocker (via oldfilmsflicker)
“I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.”
– Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted (via christinachaos)
“I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire…I give it to you not that you...”
– William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (via thetremorsinyourbody)
“I’ve noticed that women who observe things closely seem to make men uneasy.”
– Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary (via lunardruse)
“What I find very attractive, what I find sexual, are people who are unapologetic...”
– Katherine Moennig (via heartmindawakening)
“I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I’d never have.”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club (via novacaneforpain)
“When they ask why we stayed together for so long
I say, “I don’t know”
I just...”
– Andrea Gibson, ‘Prism’ (via transformfeminism)
“Be intellectually and morally rigorous in your own decision-making, and expect...”
– Rachel Maddow, Smith College 2010 Commencement Address (via transformfeminism)
“I guess it’s a comfort, perhaps a sense of self control, doing worse damage to...”
– palahniuk (via fractured-self, phoenizx) (via p-uss) (via wordstodieby) (via unnamablerevelations) (via passionately—curious)
“At night, when she lets his hair free, he is once more another constellation,...”
– Michael Ondaatje ‘The English Patient’ (via myfictionaladventures)
“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
– Tom Waits (via farewell-kingdom)
“I believe that treating other people well is a lost art.”
– Tim Gunn (via misswallflower)
