March 2012
“Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.”
– Charles Bukowski (via obdormio)
“Run my dear, from anything that may not strengthen your precious budding wings....”
– Hafiz (via nirvikalpa)
“Sometimes I wonder if my whole life will pass by this way: me waiting in the...”
– Sarah Ockler, Fixing Delilah. (via withlovefelicia)
“Freaks are born with their trauma. They’ve already passed their test in life....”
– Diane Arbus (via trua)
“Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.”
– Haruki Murakami (via kesuma)
“Existence is not something which lets itself be thought of from a distance: it...”
– Jean Paul Sartre, “La Nausee” (via leprintemps)
obdormio:
I get satisfaction when people find out things about me that they didn’t expect. And they look at me all weirdly. They think I’m this shy, quiet, innocent girl. In class—yes. Outside—no.
“The mystery is, you can eat fear
before fear eats you, you can live beyond...”
– Rita Dove, “The Narcissus Flower” (via honeychurch)
“Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.”
– Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer (via nubivagantmusings)
“I’ve noticed that women who observe things closely seem to make men uneasy.”
– Alberto Manguel, A Reading Diary (via msbloom)
“Everything you want is coming. Relax and let the universe pick up the timing and...”
– Abraham Hicks (via wakeupandbefree)
“I honestly begin every single day only with the intention of avoiding people.”
– Morrissey (via stellablu)
“I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via stellablu)
“I am vulnerable. Starved for kindness, and when I receive it, I lose my mind.”
– Marjorie Liu, Tiger Eye (via stellablu)
“Oh, sometimes I think it is of no use to make friends. They only go out of your...”
– L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea (via stellablu)
“I wish I had the courage not to fight and doubt everything… I wish, just once, I...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Choke (via wendypeppercorn)
“You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful and then you actually talk...”
– Amelia Pond (via petallis)
“Being tender and open is beautiful. As a woman, I feel continually shhh’ed. Too...”
– Zooey Deschanel (via enchants)
“I don’t know where it comes from, but I feel that there’s an ultimate strain of...”
– Charles Bukowski (via moldavia)
“And she wanted for a moment to hold and devour him, wanted his mouth, his ears,...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via saisonlune)
“Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living...”
– Eugene O’Neill, The Great God Brown and Other Plays (via aurevoirlola)
“I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.”
– Mark Twain (via girlinlondon)
paperswallow:
—I am forever ricocheting between “this is not enough,” and “I am not enough.” —Wanting and tightrope walking are the same art. —Save me from what I want means save me from falling. —and Sunday nights are forever an exercise in the will to live.
“i postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by...”
– Anais Nin (via beryl-azure)
“The world to me is a dream and the people in it are sleepers. I have known a few...”
– Katherine Mansfield (via growing-orbits)
“People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a...”
– Charles Bukowski (via joannastarks)
“I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for...”
– Greta Garbo (Picture Show Magazine Interview, 1927)
“There’s no place to go. There’s no place you ever go. You’re always in the same...”
– Ram Dass (via funeral)
“Instead of thinking that there was no future, all I did was plan for the future,...”
– Elizabeth Wurtzel (via creatingaquietmind)
“There are some things about myself that I can’t explain to anyone. There are...”
– Haruki Murakami, A Slow Boat To China (via wildthicket)
