June 2012
“I hadn’t realized how much I’d been needing to meet someone I might be able to...”
– Talk Before Sleep, Elizabeth Berg (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“there was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull...”
– Ann Patchett, Bel Canto (via beryl-azure)
“I’ve been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence,...”
– Laura Marling (via amarling)
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“Two worlds touch here. You think men have power to call forth what they will?...”
– Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain
“I know now that death is not the loss of memory, but its apotheosis. An...”
– Edmond Jabès, The Book of Questions I, trans. Rosmarie Waldrop (via proustitute)
“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you...”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (via prima-volta)
“let me tell you
about yesterday, once more
about yesterday: the incomparable...”
– Angel Gonzalez, from “Yesterday”, translated by Steven Ford Brown and Gutierrez Revuelta (thank you, awritersruminations)
May 2012
“The scariest part of being loved by someone is the uncertainty that they may...”
– (via nothinglefttofix)
“The whole world depends on your pure eyes
And all my blood flows under their...”
– Paul Éluard, from “The Curve Of Your Eyes”, translated by A. S. Kline (via litverve)
2 tags
“He often dropped phrases which had clear meanings to him, but which he labored...”
– Mark Twain, No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger
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“But I am glad I didn’t get the chance, for I am not angry anymore; cats do...”
– Mark Twain, No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger
“Your 20’s are your ‘selfish’ years. It’s a decade to immerse yourself in every...”
– Kyoko Escamilla (via irie-vibes)
“Cautiously, I allowed myself to feel good at times. I found moments of peace in...”
– Charles Bukowski, Let it Enfold You (via downthe-oubliette)
“You think you can get rid of things, and people too — leave them behind. You...”
– Margaret Atwood (via pavorst)
“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous...”
– Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer (via thechocolatebrigade)
aimmyarrowshigh:
I wish we said “fancy” in America. As in, “I fancy you.” It’s such a more agreeable term than “I have a crush on you.” What’s a crush? Like, I AM A BOA CONSTRICTOR AND I AM GOING TO IMMOBILIZE YOU WITH MY MISPLACED AND OBSESSIVE AFFECTION. “I fancy you” is like, you’re so shiny and glittery and I just want to put you on a shelf and look at you for a while ‘cause you’re fancy.
“She was so much a personality and so little anything else that even staring...”
– Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections (via honeyforthehomeless)
“I believe now that depression can never be fully grasped by mental health...”
– Richard O’Connor, Undoing Depression (via psychotherapy)
“For each ecstatic instant
We must an anguish pay
In keen and quivering...”
– Emily Dickinson, from “Life: XXXVII” (via litverve)
2 tags
“…a God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to...”
– Mark Twain, No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger
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“To think you should think I came here concerned about those things—those...”
– Mark Twain, No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger
“Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via anatomy-of-recovery)
“I had a dream my life would be so different from this hell I’m living.”
– Les Misérables (via anditslove)
“I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that...”
– Looking for Alaska (via theglasschild)
“I broke your heart.
Now barefoot I tread
on shards.”
– Vera Pavlova, “I broke your heart” (translated by Steven Seymour)
“What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via anditslove)
Allen Ginsberg, "An Eastern Ballad"
sharingpoetry:
I speak of love that comes to mind: The moon is faithful, although blind; She moves in thought she cannot speak. Perfect care has made her bleak. I never dreamed the sea so deep, The earth so dark; so long my sleep, I have become another child. I wake to see the world go wild. (submitted by blackinkobelisk)
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“With my race it is different; we have no limits of any kind, we comprehend all...”
– Mark Twain, No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger
“Pain is important: how we evade it, how we succumb to it, how we deal with it,...”
– Audre Lorde (via grrrlstudies)
“You never knew the last time you were seeing someone. You didn’t know when the...”
– J.R. Ward, Lover Mine (via kingofscotland)
“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences,...”
– C. S. Lewis (via apanoplyofsong)
“Normal? What’s normal? To only do what the masses do? And what is the benefit of...”
– Yūko Ichihara (via hourae)
“Sometimes I don’t even know if I’m extremely happy or extremely sad. It happens...”
– Antonia Michaelis, The Storyteller (via durianseeds)
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
– Jack Kerouac, Dharma Burns (via aspirethesenses)
“I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.”
– Jaime Gil De Bieda (via incisio)
“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and...”
– Anatole France (via littletravelthings)
“I have told myself you are not allowed to hurt me anymore. That’s what hurts the...”
– I Wrote This For You: The Pain Unfelt (via anditslove)
“Only a blinking eye can measure the light.”
– Sandra Beasley, from “Inventory” (via proustitute)
“Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.”
– William S. Burroughs, Letters to Allen Ginsberg: 1953-1957 (via honeyforthehomeless)
“But man is so partial to systems and abstract conclusions that he’s ready to...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky Notes From Underground (via anguis218)
“One of the great delights of poetry is that when you’re really functioning,...”
– Stanley Kunitz, The Wild Braid (via litverve)
“Touched by a masterpiece, a person begins to hear in himself that same call of...”
– Andrei Tarkovsky (via forgottencityiram) 