June 2012
“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and...”
– Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol in His Own Words (via larmoyante)
May 2012
“Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.”
– Buddha (via lartsurtout)
“You cannot, you cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. And...”
– Audre Lorde (via transformfeminism)
“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.”
– Albert Camus (via amandaonwriting)
“Judge me if you want. We are all going to die someday.
I intend to deserve it.”
– Joey Comeau (via wearemostaliveindreams)
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To...”
– Arundhati Roy
“I want a trouble-maker for a lover,
Blood spiller, blood drinker, a heart of...”
– Rumi (via nirvikalpa)
“I don’t ask you to love me always like this,
but I ask you to remember....”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via musingsinfemininity)
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“Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I fell in love with your sailor mouth, and your wounded eyes.”
– Tom Waits (via leif13)
“Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.”
– Ray Bradbury (via mianoti)
“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that’s beautiful.”
– Milan Kundera (via amandaonwriting)
“I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.”
– Jaime Gil de Bieda (via llenalena)
“(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of...”
– “The Uses of Sorrow,” Mary Oliver (via clavicola)
“In Greek, “nostalgia” literally means “the pain from an old wound”. It’s a...”
– Don Draper (via cityyandcolour)
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“I don’t suppose I really know you very well - but I know you smell like the...”
– Zelda Fitzgerald, in a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Don’t let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love.”
– Gabriel García Márquez | Memories of My Melancholy Whores (via blogut)
“She thought of it like this, like the way a book can fall down behind all the...”
– Leah Hager Cohen (The Grief of Others)
“Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping… waiting… and though unwanted… unbidden…...”
– Spike from Buffy (Joss Whedon) (via sweetspin)
“Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still...”
– Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (via helplesslyamazed)
“Words, madmoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.”
– Agatha Christie (via amandaonwriting)
“No rescue boat can save the touches I left bobbing in the wild ocean of your...”
– Jeffrey McDaniel (via rarararambles)
“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
– Franz Kafka (via blua)
“Oh what we see when we finally stop looking.”
– tylerknott (via blankpagesandinvisibleink)
“No language will ever fit, no language will give light to the mysteries of my...”
– Dodie Bellamy, Cunt-Ups (via relationalcosmetics)
“Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by...”
– C. S. Lewis on fantasy vs. fact, a timeless and timely reminder of the role of critical thinking in making sense of the stories we’re told. (via explore-blog)
“How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves...”
– Don DeLillo (via lonehands)
“Maybe that’s what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as...”
– (via blankpagesandinvisibleink)
“I prefer by far the warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness. Some...”
– Anais Nin (via oktoberlyons)
“I am driven by two main philosophies, know more about the world than I knew...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Some piece of you
stays in me and I’ll never give it back.
The heart hoards...”
– Dean Young, from “Poem Without Forgiveness” (via fleurishes)
“I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re...”
– Jeffrey McDaniel
“Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look...”
– Neil Gaiman, American Gods (via pavorst)
“I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you,...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via smited)
“He breathes into my ear until my soul takes on His fragrance. He is the soul of...”
– Rumi (via delucazade)
“Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble...”
– Anais Nin 