February 2012
“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able...”
– Simone de Beauvoir (via trua)
When F. Scott Fitzgerald was 6 years old he had a birthday party to which nobody came. He waited on the porch all afternoon in his freshly pressed suit but nobody showed, so at last he went inside and ate his entire birthday cake, including several candles.
“The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to...”
– 1984, George Orwell (via audreylostinparis)
“I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (via bookmania)
“When my body had forgotten its purpose,
when it just hung off my brainstem like...”
– “December,” Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz (via clavicola)
“To rest was to receive all aspects of the world without judgment. A bath in the...”
– Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (via clavicola)
“Some people, when you look in their eyes, there is nothing much happening, most...”
– Wesley Morgan (via dailydoseofquotes)
“You are the first person I was afraid to sleep next to, not because of the fear...”
– Sierra DeMulder, excerpt from Love, Forgive Me (via holdonmagnolia)
“People who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will suppose you are...”
– Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (via devilduck)
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
– Agatha Christie (via honeypi)
“Time isn’t an orderly stream. Time isn’t a placid lake recording each of our...”
– How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu (via crossettlibrary)
“One day you fall for this boy. And he touches you with his fingers. And he burns...”
– The Tracey Fragments (via obdormio)
“Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment. Most...”
– Haruki Murakami, A Wild Sheep Chase (via obdormio)
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“I love you to pieces, distraction, etc.”
– J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey (via pattiocleavis)
“One day, I realize what has happened to me: I thought I was suffering from not...”
– Roland Barthes – A Lover’s Discourse (via shesinacoma)
“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
– Jack Kerouac (via talkingtokafka)
“That was the devilish part of her — this coldness, this woodenness, something...”
– Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf (via clavicola)
“Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your...”
– Derek Walcott, from “Love After Love” (via proustitute)
“It’s so nice
to wake up in the morning
all alone
and not have to tell...”
– “Love Poem,” Richard Brautigan (via clavicola)
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“I don’t know what it is,
But I distrust myself
When I start to like a girl
A...”
– “It’s Raining In Love,” Richard Brautigan (via clavicola)
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“Today I found a scrap of paper
where you’d scrawled your name.
I hate the...”
– Charles Jensen, excerpt from Debts (via holdonmagnolia)
“There are moments when a kind of clarity comes over you, and suddenly you can...”
– Great House, by Nicole Krauss (via victoriarenstrom)
“The anxiety was overwhelming- something like the feeling of having been left...”
– Great House, Nicole Krauss (via idontknowwhattonamemytumblr)
“I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I...”
– Anais Nin (via girlinlondon)
“So I will lie beside you here
unnamed
until my hands recover from your skin.”
– John Burnside (via nocternity)
“I look calm on the outside but I spend months, weeks and hours not sleeping,...”
– Tom Ford (via hal-cy-on)
“I seek pleasure. I seek the nerves under your skin.”
– Patti Smith (via howmyheartbehaves)
“Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand - relax. If you...”
– Osho (via billowy)
“What is this self inside us, this silent observer,
Severe and speechless...”
– T. S. Eliot, The Elder Statesman (via proustitute)
“I was educated in line with the basic premise: work work work. You are only a...”
– Elizabeth Kübler-Ross (via leopoldgursky)
“You have to go somewhere else, sweet pea. You have to move beyond despair. You...”
– Sugar (via nouvelliste)
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
– Winston Churchill (via trua)
“It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space,...”
– Stephen Hawking (via crownedrose)
“I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in...”
– Jeffrey McDaniel (via honeychurch)
“I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side Of Paradise (via caleyhustle) 