June 2012
117 posts
“But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via human-voices)
“We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy....”
– Brad Meltzer
“I don’t want to be perfect. I want to be useful, I want to be good, and I want...”
– Scott Berkun
“I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.”
– Sylvia Plath (via honeysucklefairy)
“Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there...”
– Dorothy Allison (via mmmajestic)
“I’m one of those people that you have to keep your eye on or I’ll wander off...”
– Jack White (via honeysucklefairy)
“Being temporary does not mean being unimportant or meaningless.”
– John Green (via bestlifetoday)
“How terribly sad it is that people are made in such a way that they get used to...”
– Jostein Gaarder (via palpability)
“I’m not sentimental—I’m as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via floralnymph)
“Loneliness is like starvation: you don’t realize how hungry you are until you...”
– Joyce Carol Oates, Faithless
“Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people...”
– Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann
“When we really see other people as they are without taking it personally, we can...”
– Don Miguel Ruiz
“Maybe young women don’t wonder whether they can have it all any longer, but in...”
– Nora Ephron
“Society has allowed rapists to define what resistance is: screaming, crying,...”
–
A section of the article “How I became a rape victim”
(via ceedling)
“There was a time when mapmakers named the places they travelled through with the...”
– Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
“I am very interested and fascinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one...”
– Stephen Chbosky, Perks of Being A Wallflower (via blua)
“Then he almost but didn’t say the two sentences he’d been meaning to say for...”
– The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (via lostinthesounds)
“You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to...”
– Dita Von Teese (via considerthishippie)
“Nothing can wear you out like caring about people.”
– S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This Is Now (via 24ribs)
“Some of us are very selfish people and sometimes this is a lesson we learn a...”
– What I Did the Summer After I Graduated — Sarah McCarry (via drinkyourjuice)
“I used to think Romeo and Juliet was the greatest love story ever written. But...”
– J. Conrad Guest (via endorfins)
“The world is full of places to which I want to return.”
– Ford Madox Ford, The Good Soldier (via bookmania)
“Because yesterday morning from the steamy window
we saw a pair of red foxes...”
– “Happiness”, Robert Hass (via thewarmestchord)
“You have to die a few times before you can really live.”
– Charles Bukowski
I remind myself of this quote every single day. (via lifeisapigstyyy)
“What kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me....”
– Jeanette Winterson (via myshootingstar)
“Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind
Cannot bear very much reality.”
– T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton (via littleigor)
“Every seed you plant contains within itself an enormous amount of information...”
– Anastasia, Ringing Cedars Series (via nirvikalpa)
“But I don’t want comfort. I want poetry. I want danger. I want freedom. I want...”
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (via erinat)
“She lifted her eyes. Blank, lovely eyes. Mad eyes. A mad girl.”
– Jean Rhys (via consciousbeing)
“Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put...”
– Audre Lorde (via transformfeminism)
“But we get busy. Too busy scrolling our phone screens, watching TV, catching up...”
– Brendan Leonard; semi-rad (via thinknorth)
“The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.”
– Juliette Lewis (via cityyandcolour)
“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly...”
– Sylvia Plath (via belongingness)
“I was in love with anatomy
the symmetry of my body
poised for flight,
the...”
– “Before Sleep,” Catherine Anderson (via clavicola)
stickyeyelids:
adam lay on the sand eve loved the beach can i touch? said adam not much said eve what about now? said adam if you know how said eve
i’ll give it a try said adam oh my! said eve come on said adam not long said eve
move closer said adam be gentle said eve you’re beautiful said adam you’re big said eve
when said adam oh no said eve now said adam ow said eve
don’t slow said adam...
“Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we...”
– Andre Dubus (via thenocturnals)
“To live every day as if it has been stolen from death, that is how I would like...”
– The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein (via liketheopensea)
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
– Rumi (via loveyourchaos)
“You have fewer friends than you think you do. Way fewer. Out of our hundreds of...”
– “5 Things It Sucks To Realize” (Mila Jaroniec, via Thought Catalog)
“It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.”
– John Green, The Fault In Our Stars (via n-ullibicity)
“I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.”
– Uma Thurman (via absea)
Miyakojima - my personal tumblr of words →
“And every day, the world will drag you by the hand, yelling “This is important!...”
– I Wrote This For You: The Grand Distraction
“I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that...”
– Virginia Woolf, Night and Day (via nobunnyluvsyou)
“She was truly a beautiful girl. I could feel a small polished stone sinking...”
– Haruki Murakami (via magrittesque) 