August 2012
30 posts
“To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a...”
– Anthony Doerr, Memory Wall (via 4mbivalent)
“Why is it frowned upon to feel, to care? No longer can we leave our heart open...”
– Humanity (via passionately—curious)
“It’s all a matter of paying attention, being awake in the present
moment, and...”
– Charles de Lint
“You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.”
– Isadora Duncan, Isadora Speaks: Uncollected Writings and Speeches of Isadora Duncan (via tarashton)
“I read. I read all the time. I read books that tell the pure honest truth. I...”
– The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers (via creatingaquietmind)
“There’s something beautiful about keeping certain aspects of your life hidden....”
– Kamenashi Kazuya
“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place, I told him, like...”
– Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran (via 4mbivalent)
“Our job is to love people. When it hurts. When it’s awkward. When it’s uncool...”
– Jamie Tworkowksi (via godmoves)
“I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature. My attachments...”
– Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“I hated labels anyway. People didn’t fit in slots—prostitute, housewife,...”
– Janet Fitch, White Oleander
“Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to...”
– Mary Oliver (via vvolare)
“I kissed him passionately, I even wanted to bruise him, so that he would not be...”
– Françoise Sagan, Bonjour Tristesse (via fawnes)
“As the smallest drop of water detached from the ocean contains all the qualities...”
– James Allen (via fernsandmoss)
“For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy,...”
– Aldous Huxley (via luxe-pauvre)
“I must be a mermaid. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow...”
– Anaïs Nin (via coexistential)
“I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.”
– Neil Gaiman (via larmoyante)
“I left this morning saying ‘I love you’
as if setting out for some unknown...”
– “I left this morning,” Peter Bland (via vlorin)
“No matter how often I think I can’t stand it anymore, I always do. There is no...”
– Janice Galloway, The Trick Is to Keep Breathing (via 4mbivalent)
“If I could be any part of you, I’d be your tears. To be conceived in your heart,...”
– Anonymous (via larmoyante)
“I’ve been rereading your story. I think it’s about me in a way that might not be...”
– Richard Siken (via creatingaquietmind)
“In Austin, someone has scrawled on the bathroom wall of a cafe on Congress...”
– Linh Dinh, Poetry Sightings (via loveyourchaos)
“People say “there are other fish in the sea” I say “fuck you, she was my sea.”
– Jen Faulkner (via suiicune)
“I felt as if there were invisible threads between us. I felt as if invisible...”
– From the film Edvard Munch, 1974 (via frenchtwist)
“You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you become new...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra (via iwantmybearsuit, sex-death-rebirth)
“Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via kari-shma)
“We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast. (via zacheser)
“I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via ahorton92)
“Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise...”
– Stephen Colbert (via imfantasyparade)
“Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page...”
– Carol Shields, The Republic of Love (via creatingaquietmind) 