December 2011
4 posts
Even a map cannot show you
the way back to a place
that no longer exists.
– Sandra M. Castillo, from “Christmas, 1970” (via align)
These requests are like any requests. Sometimes they can work out and I can...
– Ask Santa | The Hairpin (via geographysucks)
November 2011
2 posts
Love humiliates you, but hatred cradles you.
– Janet Fitch, White Oleander (via silklace)
October 2011
2 posts
Hollywood is still teaching women that “dumb” is “attractive,” they’re just...
– 4 Pieces of Relationship Advice Movies Need to Stop Giving | Cracked.com
(via yeahiwasintheshit via nunmoreblack)
And she finds it difficult to believe — that a person would love her even when...
– Margaret Atwood (via decembrist)
September 2011
1 post
….he said it was interesting. He used the word ‘textured’. He...
– The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
August 2011
2 posts
Your past is just a story. And once you realize this, it has no power over you.
– Chuck Palahniuk (via loveyourchaos)
July 2011
3 posts
There’s enough clarity in a miracle for those who want to believe and...
– Pascal
You make ‘Love’ sound like a road hazard. ‘Watch out!...
– heartless-bitches.com
I am the infantile center of the goddamn universe
– Abandon
June 2011
1 post
She’s an enigma wrapped in a mysterious T-shirt.
– Pretty Monsters by Kelly Link
April 2011
1 post
I Cannot by Anna Swirszczynska
I envy you. Every moment
You can leave me.
I cannot
leave myself.
January 2011
1 post
‘The dream is beautiful,’ she said quietly. ‘Make it come true.’
– Herman Hesse, Demain (via nightmarebrunette)
December 2010
2 posts
September 2010
1 post
August 2010
1 post
Never date a writer because she’ll fictionalize everything. She’ll write about...
– “Never Date a Writer” (via geographysucks)
May 2010
1 post
youarebonbon:
shitgaze:
write what you said to me — how far you went away from yourself — when you stopped — noticing — write you lost your way for a reason — write how — you come back — how your body was not made to do this — with you in it — write stay in it — a little longer — write what died for this space — and only what will live in it — tell me where you’ve been necessary — the memory...
April 2010
3 posts
March 2010
9 posts
Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.
– George Carlin (via ellje) (via hihievet) (via booklover) (via avantlecrepuscule) (via bringmethesea) (via longlivethequeen)
At a certain point in your life-probably when too much of it has gone by-you...
– Phoebe in Wonderland
Clean Slate
dearoldlove:
I’ve instructed my friends to, if I ever get full amnesia, tell me you’re dead.
February 2010
4 posts
Poem, Ted Kooser
align:
poetry365:
Get your tongue out of my mouth; I’m kissing you goodbye.
“You’re never satisfied,” she says.
“No. I’m always unsatisfied,” I say....
– Chablis by Philip Brunetti | Word Riot
That’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
– The Great Gatsby (via knockturn)
I knew all about things that weren’t very hungry; my life was full of...
– No one belongs here more than you.
January 2010
20 posts
I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly...
– Anais Nin (via nightmarebrunette)
When I got home, there was old coffee and a novel and some cigarettes on my...
– http://www.bearparade.com/nervousassface
Love is a check, that can be forged, tha can be cashed. Love is a payment that...
– White Oleander
You know the mistrust of heights is the mistrust of self, you don’t know...
– White Oleander
I would be afraid to be so vulnerable. I had spent the last three years trying...
– White Oleander
Nobody becomes an artist unless they have to.
– White Oleander