August 2012
“a tremendous distance between me and everything real”
– Hunter S. Thompson (via kitsune-)
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a...”
– Robert Heinlein (via emotional-algebra)
“There’s an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It’s when you meet the...”
– Chuch Palahniuk (via obdormio)
“It is very sad to me that some people are so intent on leaving their mark on the...”
– John Green (via saddest-summer)
“Life is a journey, and you can’t carry everything with you. Only the usable...”
– Ha Jin (via boxofoctaves)
“You’re not good with humans. It was close to midnight. I was nursing a bottle. I...”
– Read A Little Poetry (via leopoldgursky)
“He looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that’s partly why...”
– Jeanette Winterson (via shesinacoma)
“I could spend my life arriving each evening in a new city.”
– Bill Bryson (via saisonlune)
“Once I asked a serial killer what made him
get up in the morning, and he said...”
– Sandra Beasley, from “Vocation” (via proustitute)
“Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something...”
– Stephen King, On Writing (via rememo)
“This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don’t get impatient. Even if...”
– Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami (via thatkindofwoman)
“Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the...”
– Anne Tyler, The Accidental Tourist. (via theburnthatkeepseverything)
“Morning or night, Friday or Sunday, made no difference, everything was the same:...”
– Leo Tolstoy (The Death of Ivan Ilych)
“What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via waterwillow)
“If society does not find fault in a woman’s talent, competence or intelligence,...”
– -Feminist Fury (via feminist-fury)
(via blackposeidon)
paradoxical sentiments: sandyrobin: wisdomt33th:... →
sandyrobin:
wisdomt33th:
New York City is a panic attack on Houston and Essex, it’s a broken down Q train, it’s a 45 minute schlep to work. New York City is finding yourself in your friend’s ex-girlfriend’s most recent ex-boyfriend’s apartment, it’s a roof in Brooklyn, it’s a bar in…
“That’s the thing I want to make clear about depression: It’s got nothing at all...”
– Elizabeth Wurtzel (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.”
– Robert Brault (via obdormio)
“I’d always thought that my awkwardness was a thin veil disguising the real me....”
– Sarra Manning (via obdormio)
“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be...”
– Simone de Beauvoir (via obdormio)
“I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to...”
– Warsan Shire (via milkwolves)
camaraderie: An Open, Exasperated Letter to This... →
heylabodega:
Ok, dude, you weren’t in touch all week. I get it. You were busy. So was I. I was initially indignant when you piped up for the first time in a week to vaguely non-invite me to some vague non-plans on the same day. Would a day’s notice kill you? No, no it would not. But maybe you had a change of…
“There’s nothing wrong with not understanding yourself”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via leloulou)
“I hope something happens. I’m restless as the devil and have a horror of getting...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via shesinacoma)
“The greatest prison that people live in is the fear of what other people think.”
– David Icke (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
“I bend clumsily at the knees
and I quarrel no more,
all I want is a human...”
– Ilya Kaminsky, “Marina Tsvetaeva” (via leopoldgursky)
“Traveling is a brutality. it forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of...”
– Cesare Pavese (via emotional-algebra)
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It...”
– Neil Gaiman (via portia-makoma)
“Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the...”
– Brian Andreas (via emotional-algebra)
“It hurts because it mattered.”
– John Green (via itsherfactory) 