May 2012
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April 2012
“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
– Charles Bukowski (via nocternity)
“Let me tell you some things. I used to... →
feminisminapapercup:
““Let me tell you some things. I used to investigate child abuse and neglect. I can tell you how to stop the vast majority of abortion in the world. First, make knowledge and access to contraception widely available. Start teaching kids before they hit puberty. Teach them about domestic violence and coercion, and teach them not to coerce and rape. Create a strong, loving...
“You either like me or you don’t. It took me Twenty-something years to learn how...”
– Daniel Franzese (via overlysensitivestudent)
“I have no fear of losing you, for you aren’t an object of my property, or anyone...”
– Anthony de Mello (via emotional-algebra)
“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different...”
– Hermann Hesse (via human-voices)
“You won’t do it at the right time. You’ll be late. You’ll be early. You’ll get...”
– Kate Moller (via dreamingbeing)
“Some people will never understand the kind of super power it takes for some...”
– Andrea Gibson (via black-tangled-heart)
“Go and get a job. Go and find a flat. Find somebody else. Put them in the flat....”
– Dylan Moran (via saisonlune)
“Some fall in love.
I shatter.”
– Stephin Merritt (via atomiclanterns)
“I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every...”
– Lemony Snicket (via obdormio)
“I’m not fascinated by people who smile all the time. What I find interesting is...”
– Unknown (via daisydandelions)
“And then, one day, you are done. You are not selfish. You are not disloyal. You...”
– Jill Malone (via remnant)
“What I sometimes mistake for ecstasy is simply the absence of grief.”
– Sarah Kane (via girlinlondon)
“People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
YOU MIGHT FIND YOURSELF: Mistake by Charles... →
youmightfindyourself:
I reached up into the top of the closet and took out a pair of blue panties and showed them to her and asked “are these yours?”
and she looked and said, “no, those belong to a dog.”
she left after that and I haven’t seen her since. she’s not at her place. I keep going there, leaving notes stuck into the door. I go back and the notes
“Tonight I’ve watched
The moon and then
the Pleiades
go down
The night is...”
– Sappho (via palussomni)
“My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life....”
– Dance Dance Dance (via harukimurakami)
“She did not need much, wanted very little. A kind word, sincerity, fresh air,...”
– Starra Neely Blade (via obdormio)
“We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a...”
– Audre Lorde (via vaginawoolf)
“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you...”
– Janet Fitch (via wefadetogrey)
“The more people hold beliefs that others expect them not to experience negative...”
– Feeling bad about feeling sad: the role of social expectancies in amplifying negative mood (2012) by Bastian et al.
As the authors say:
One does not need to look far to see which emotions are socially valued and more normative than others. Daily we are reminded of the value of happiness, from TV...
“Girls like her, my grandfather once warned me, girls like her turn into women...”
– from Black Heart by Holly Black (via corcordium)
“While today’s youth are eager to live in a world where racism does not exist,...”
– bell hooks (via wretchedoftheearth)
“If I never see you again
I will always carry you
inside
outside
on my...”
– Charles Bukowski (via nocternity)
“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us...”
– E.E. Cummings (via obdormio)
“In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there...”
– Janet Fitch, White Oleander (via fleshscars)
twobirdsonabranch:
Charlotte Gainsbourg -...
“Let’s face it. We’re undone by each other. And if we’re not, we’re missing...”
– Judith Butler, from Undoing Gender. And yes. That. We are crushed to the exact extent that we once felt whole, which means I will be just as sad as I am now happy. And I know that. And it’s fine, even though it’s awful. It’s fine. (via oxxenfree)
“I remember your collarbone, forming the tiniest
satellite dish in the universe,...”
– Jeffrey McDaniel, from “Letter to the Woman Who Stopped Writing Me Back” (via honeychurch)
“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
– Elbert Hubbard (via obdormio)
“You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and...”
– Brene Brown (via emotional-algebra)
“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive...”
– Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
(via piecesoflogic) 