April 2012
16 posts
“The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest...”
– Deb Caletti (via kari-shma)
“You have the right to leave someone. But at least tell them why, ‘cause what’s...”
– Unknown (via 36974)
“I don’t want to be married just to be married. I can’t think of anything...”
– Mary Ann Shaffer (via kari-shma)
“What’s the worst possible thing you can call a woman? Don’t hold back, now....”
– Jessica Valenti, Full Frontal Feminism: A Young Woman’s Guide to Why Feminism Matters (via libraryland)
“The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping...”
– Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat (via books-quoted)
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
– Haruki Murakami (via kari-shma)
“Human relationships didn’t work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing,...”
– Charles Bukowski, Women (via greystripeshirt)
“I want to change my punctuation. I long for exclamation marks, but I’m drowning...”
– Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies (via libraryland)
“Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and...”
– The Velveteen Rabbit (via accio-blue-box)
“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That’s...”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via libraryland)
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (via misswallflower)
“If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in the kingdom...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via crookedindifference)
March 2012
24 posts
“Something else comes and it makes me feel weak and scared and fragile and I...”
– A Million Little Pieces by James Frey (via thechocolatebrigade)
“I close my eyes and I let my body shut itself down and I let my mind wander. It...”
– James Frey (via impassives)
i drowned myself into the depths of the ocean and the pressure crushed me into nothingness.
20.3.12. 4.07am.
“Happiness is good for the body, but it is grief which develops the strengths of...”
– Marcel Proust (via psychotherapy)
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via libraryland)
mo cuishle
i’m too afraid to want anything, because i’ll always want more. and i’ll always be jealous of others that won your heart. but then, who am i to want you?
ahuntersheart:
A Moment I don’t know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a bird on an overhead power line seems as great as a Beethoven symphony. then you forget it and you’re back again. -Charles Bukowski
“It seems that the dead always appear in our dreams just before we wake. In this...”
– (via ahuntersheart)
“I didn’t want to use the wrong words. I was afraid that words might betray it. I...”
– (via ahuntersheart)
1 tag
“a bouquet of clumsy words: you know that place between sleep and awake where...”
– e.e.cummings (via girlinlondon)
“There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are...”
– Terry Pratchett (via amandaonwriting)
“If only we’d stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time.”
– Edith Wharton (via libraryland)
“I dream of a love that even time will lie down and be still for.”
– Sally Owens (Practical Magic)
February 2012
10 posts
"I want to be like water. I want to slip through...
“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.”
– Erica Jong (via nirvikalpa)
“The creative person is both more primitive and more cultured, more destructive...”
– F. Barron, “The psychology of imagination”, Scientific American (September 1958)
“Don’t attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because...”
– Ingrid (White Oleander)
“I chose to stay present,
to unlearn how to unlove,
to love,
and to practice...”
– (via loverofstories)
“I had a friend, a lover. Or did I dream it? So many dreams are crowding upon me...”
– (via awritersruminations)
“There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do...”
– Neil Gaiman (via julie911)
20.2.12. 4.45pm. you held me tight, whispering familiar words, as i come undone. thank you.
i miss having your arms wrapped around me