June 2012
117 posts
“I may be cynical when I say that very rarely is the beloved more than a shaping...”
– Jeannette Winterson, Sexing the Cherry (via bookmania)
May 2012
118 posts
“So let the city do as it must and break us down
to dust and skeletons. I’m just...”
– Mark Wunderlich, from “Given in Person Only” in The Anchorage (via proustitute)
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used...”
– Arundhati Roy (via pigeongrasse)
“It’s not the load that breaks you down. It’s the way you carry it.”
– C.S. Lewis (via outcamethesun)
“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
– A. A. Milne (via liketheopensea)
“Where did love begin? What human being looked at another and saw in their face...”
– Jeanette Winterson, from “Lighthousekeeping” (via colourcollision)
“I think it’s great for two people to be together. That is a good number. I...”
– Henry Rollins (via nobunnyluvsyou)
“We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via liketheopensea)
“Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (via liketheopensea)
“The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the...”
– Salman Rushdie (via natashakills)
“I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.”
– Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (via libraryland)
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“He stepped down, trying not too look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he...”
– Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (via wingsforlashes)
“‘Chloe liked Olivia,’ I read. And then it struck me how immense a change was...”
– Virginia Woolf, “A Room of One’s Own” (via gerutha)
“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.”
– Robert Brault (via weareallgettingby)
“You keep putting one foot in front of the other and one day you look back and...”
– Tom Hiddleston (via lyrexz)
“The two of us are linked together by the heavy bonds of silence that pass...”
– Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (via magrittesque)
“Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.”
– Ray Bradbury (via mianoti)
“Because the fear is already there, and has been for so long. The fear that all...”
– Sylvia Plath, “Cambridge Notes” (via virginalmusings)
“I couldn’t live where there were no trees — something vital in me would starve.”
– L.M Montgomery(via talisman)
“Girls like her, my grandfather once warned me, girls like her turn into women...”
– from Black Heart by Holly Black (via coldandpale)
“Food, fire, walks, dreams, cold, sleep, love, slowness, time, quiet, books,...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Why I Adore the Night (via twotonmantaray)
“What I didn’t yet understand was the importance of taste and timing. Books are...”
– Mark Haddon, The Right Words in the Right Order (via distantheartbeats)
“Why are people sad? That’s simple. They are the prisoners of their personal...”
– Paulo Coelho (via vashti)
“It’s hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now...”
– Jeanette Winterson (via quotes-shape-us)
“A thousand dreams within me softly burn.”
– Arthur Rimbaud (via thebookishdark)
“You can’t console me if you are the cause for consolation.”
– David Levithan (via anditslove)
“I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.”
– Jaime Gil de Bieda (via llenalena)
“But, my favorite part about multi-tasking is that it’s proven that the more you...”
– We’re creating a culture of distraction. (via superamit)
“Was there any novel where the heroine gets married to the wrong guy and then...”
– The Marriage Plot - Jeffrey Eugenides (via daydreamdelusion)
“Go placidly amidst the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in...”
– Desiderata by Max Ehrmann (via wethinkwedream)
“She was the kind of girl who could make you forget about a lot of things.”
– John Green, Paper Towns (via meandrouskismet)
“It was wonderful to sit with her head on my shoulder for hours and feel as I...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald to Zelda Fitzgerald (via thecoolofnight)
fuckyeahreading!: Rushdie on Censorship →
inwhichidigress:
Salman Rushdie writes ‘On Censorship’ in The New Yorker:
The creative act requires not only freedom but also this assumption of freedom. If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today. If he is afraid of the…
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via mysecretrecipebook)
here in these, deep city lights;: 20 obsolete... →
victoriousvocabulary:
Article by Heather Carreiro DURING MY UNDERGRADUATE studies as a Linguistics major, one of the things that struck me most is the amazing fluidity of language. New words are created; older words go out of style. Words can change meaning over time, vowel sounds…
“It’s very tempting when you really want to be with someone to settle for much,...”
– Greg Behrendt (via larmoyante)
“I am driven by two main philosophies, know more about the world than I knew...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via blua)
“When people realize they’re being listened to, they tell you things.”
– Richard Ford, whose dyslexia forces him to listen more closely when people are talking (via austinkleon)
“If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you. But if you really...”
– Don Marquis (via blua)
“I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for...”
– Greta Garbo (via forgot-forgotten)
“The world is changed by examples, not by opinions.”
– Paulo Coelho
“Write hard and clear about what hurts.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via blua)
“Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and...”
– Susan Cain, Quiet (via ohmothernature)
“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the...”
– Stephen R. Covey (via gothical)
“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to...”
– Charles Bukowski (via bearbearpdx)
“While today’s youth are eager to live in a world where racism does not exist,...”
– bell hooks (via ceedling)
“She remembered how it had felt and tasted, that slowly descending depression,...”
– Kristin Hannah (via inmyskin)
“I didn’t want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via roscoe-)
“I’ve been with people and shared beautiful moments like traveling or staying up...”
– Before Sunrise (1995), Richard Linklater (via imfantasyparade) 