June 2012
“One of the greatest feelings in life is the conviction that you have lived the...”
– Michael Ignatieff (via airudite)
“Destruction can be beautiful to some people. Don’t ask me why. It just is. And...”
– John Knowles
“We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy....”
– Brad Meltzer
“I make it easier for people to leave by making them hate me a little.”
– Cecelia Ahern, The Book of Tomorrow
“She did not think it was true that women fell in love all at once, but rather,...”
– Tatjana Soli (via middlenameconfused)
“Should I have slept with her? That’s the central question of this piece. The...”
– Haruki Murakami - A Window (via murakamistuff)
“I guess it took someone as unreal as him to break through my own unreality. It...”
– Haruki Murakami - A Wild Sheep Chase (via squeasel)
“I went to bed and woke in the middle of the night thinking I heard someone cry,...”
– Ray Bradbury, Green Shadows, White Whale: A Novel of Ray Bradbury’s Adventures Making Moby Dick with John Huston in Ireland (via larmoyante)
“All through my life I’ve had this strange unaccountable feeling that something...”
– Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (via liquidnight)
01012012:
you never really know someone until you talk to them at 4 am
“She got tired of herself. She got tired of not being able to say what she wanted...”
– The Second Summer of the Sisterhood, Ann Brashares (via causetimeneverwaits)
“I have always, essentially, been waiting. Waiting to become something else,...”
– Shauna Niequist (via danseurs)
So true…
You know I’ve had my days when I insist that humans are not social animals, we can live in solitary. But living alone can be such a soul-devouring thing.
You start be defined only by what you remember of yourself, and these memories blurs like ink on wet paper. Soon enough, your image of who you are and what you are like becomes obscure. And every moment, you begin to resist the need to...
“People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you...”
– Insurgent (via myfavequote)
“The hardest part about walking away from someone is when you realize that no...”
– (via desideroso)
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“There are no safe investments, but we invest anyway. Because heartbreak is...”
– The Risky Business of Love, Donna Shute
“She’s a human traffic accident, and everybody’s slowing down to look at the...”
– Grey’s Anatomy (via anditslove)
“Sometimes things seems so unbearable in the middle of the night, don’t they? In...”
– Gabrielle Zevin (via loveneverlosesitswayhome)
“Have you ever analyzed things to the degree where you can’t really remember the...”
– Edie Sedgwick (via wearethestarswhichsing)
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“When it’s time to die, go ahead and die, and when it’s time to live, live. Don’t...”
– Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees (via larmoyante)
Sometimes I think I’m a thread away from being reduced to my knees and plead for someone to love me. Maybe that explains all my recent actions.
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“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via cartographe)
“If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. we’d never have...”
– - Ray Bradbury
RIP.
(via beautifulinnyc)
and then the quote ends with ‘RIP Ray Bradbury” after u jump off the cliff. hmmmmm
(via isle-of-infinity)
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“And I learned how to be strong. I realize that’s an unbearable cliché but...”
– Mila Jaroniec, Abortion (Part 2)
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“You’re the one who has to make your choices but everyone has all these opinions...”
– Mila Jaroniec, Abortion (Part 2)
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“He felt a suffocating tightness in the chest. Meeting new people and having new...”
– 1Q84 (via feelingiseverything)
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“Just after I turned twenty, this thought hit me : ‘Maybe I’ve lost the...”
– Haruki Murakami - South of the border, West of the sun. (via cee-ce)
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oofpoetry:
It’s always like this. I catch their scent and old feelings come around.
Wordless: still, we know one another, or should.
All I want is to take my quilts, spread them beside the porch rail,
and deep in the night, at ease together, speak of longing, of love.
Xue Tao (transl. by Jeanne Larsen)
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“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t...”
– David Foster Wallace (via decembrist)
“Girls have such silly reasons for doing the most serious things.”
– Edith Wharton, Roman Fever (via eeekaaa) 