January 2011
“Holding hands ….is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together.”
– The history of love
“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I...”
– Lisa Kleypas
December 2010
“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights (via credoquia)
"New Year's Eve always terrifies me."
peanutbuttertime:
— Charles Bukowski
“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a...”
– the history of love
“What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random...”
– Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk (via thechocolatebrigade)
“Anais on March 26, 1932
This is strange, Henry. Before, as soon as I came home...”
“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul,...”
– Sylvia Plath (via lillymon)
the truth and beauty of this…..
“I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when...”
– mary oliver
“Scientists do not get upset when the status quo is upset – they hate the status...”
– Scientific Heresy (via scipsy)
“Ten times a day something happens to me like this - some strengthening throb of...”
– mary oliver
“The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.”
– Don DeLillo, Point Omega (via fwriction)
Your Breakup, by Alison Barker →
fwriction:
This Story of the Day, from Monkeybicycle, was brought to my attention by Andrew Ervin, and I could not be more grateful. Alison Barker’s story has haunted me, in the best possible way, and I cannot stop reading it. Barker’s word choice and sentence structure, too, seem particularly appropriate in this piece, each syllable like a thorn, pressing ever so slightly, in the hopes of...
“Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.”
– Oscar Wilde (via loveyourchaos)
Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head?
hellooblivion:
- Willy Wonka, Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (1971)
“When he first stepped out of the car and walked towards the door where I stood...”
– henry and june
“If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will...”
– Anais Nin
Laugh loud, hold my hand, and run fast.
All the things I love…all in one quote :)
“How wrong is it for a woman to expect man to build the world she wants, rather...”
– Anais Nin
“I disregard the proportions, the measures, the time of the ordinary world. I...”
– Anais Nin (via psychodelic)
“. ..And maybe a happy ending doesn’t include a guy, maybe…...”
That moment when you're reading a book and you...
