October 2011
16 posts
“Listen: I am ideally happy. My happiness is a kind of challenge. As I wander...”
– Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters 1940-1977 (via thechocolatebrigade)
“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively...”
– Sylvia Plath (via katelizabeth)
“In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret,...”
– Libba Bray (via katelizabeth)
“Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping… waiting… and though unwanted, unbidden,...”
– Joss Whedon (via katelizabeth)
“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”
– John Steinbeck (via misswallflower)
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“She wasn’t doing a thing that I could see, except standing there, leaning on the...”
– J.D. Salinger (via sellmydreams)
“Why must one talk? Often one shouldn’t talk, but live in silence. The more one...”
– Jean-Luc Godard, La Nouvelle Vague (via serialstranger)
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“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the...”
– Anaïs Nin (via snapadoo)
“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”
– Edgar Allan Poe (via loveyourchaos)
September 2011
2 posts
“I think it’s just as likely that someone could say that this place, right here,...”
– David Wroblewski, The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (submitted by elizgrace)
August 2011
52 posts
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“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen (via katelizabeth)
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“He puts down the pen, folds the sheet of paper, and slips it inside an envelope....”
– Alessandro Baricco. (via madeofglass-)
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my lean, unripened heart: limited edition →
fleurishes:
There has to be something else to talk about besides love. But is there anything else? Yes. August waning into autumn, the last slivers of its thick heat kissing everything into flame. It makes me glad for winter not long afterwards, to cool the cinders November leaves behind. There’s the taste…
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“Once I knew I was not magnificent”
– Holocene by Bon Iver
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“Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see...”
– John Green An Abundance of Katherines (via 24ribs)
“Human nature has its limitations. It can bear joy and suffering, and pain to a...”
– The Sorrows of Young Werther (via sickly-thin)
“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth...”
– Sigmund Freud (via moscow)
“I wonder if it’s ever really possible to know the truth about someone else, or...”
– Lauren Oliver (via venebelle)
“I wonder if it’s ever really possible to know the truth about someone else, or...”
– Lauren Oliver (via venebelle)
“I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud...”
– Khaled Hosseini (via s-e-l-f-destruction)
