September 2011
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“You say that you love rain, but you open your umbrella when it rains. You say...”
– William Shakespeare (via andrewharlow)
5 tags
August 2011
3 tags
4 tags
“You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot...”
– Elizabeth Taylor (via crssa)
“Life is painful and messed up. It gets complicated at the worst of times, and...”
– Alysha Speer (via julie911)
When I'm in a bookstore, I'm all:
July 2011
“I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here...”
– Lemony Snicket (via orientaltiger)
awaiting dawn & dusk: In fact a mature person does... →
day-breaking:
In fact a mature person does not fall in love, he rises in love. The word ’fall’ is not right. Only immature people fall; they stumble and fall down in love. Somehow they were managing and standing. They cannot manage and they cannot stand – they find a woman and they are gone, they find a man and…
“It occurred to her that in every relationship in which she had participated, in...”
– Tom Robbins (via atomos)
“Once the realization is accepted that
even between the closest human beings...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via paynehollow) (via odayaka) (via soymilk) (via keezay)
“It may seem like the hardest thing to do, but you have to forget the guy who...”
– Nicholas Sparks (via runawaytrain)
“I do very badly without a lover. I pine, I sigh, I sleep, I dream, I set the...”
– “All I Know About Gertrude Stein”, Jeanette Winterson, Granta 115: THE F WORD (via jennirl)
“If I am honest I will admit that I have always wanted to avoid love. Yes give me...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The World and Other Places (via helplesslyamazed)
“Why is the word yes so brief?
It should be
the longest,
the hardest,
so that...”
– Vera Pavlova, If There Is Something to Desire 9, 17, 18. (via lareinaperdida)
“And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you...”
– Haruki Murakami (via wearethieves)
June 2011
May 2011
“What good is intellect if it leaves us immobile and frozen in indecision? At...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via grey-line)
“Maybe it was fitting in a world of insecurity, where curly haired kids wanted...”
– The Wonder Years (via 52hearts)
robin-sparkles:
moods when I’m on my period:
“My advice [on how to become a writer] is so basic. Number one: Read. I feel like...”
– Jennifer Egan (via buyhercandy)
“You will miss a ton, but that’s OK. We’re so caught up in trying to do...”
– 38 Life Lessons I’ve Learned in 38 Years | zen habits (via 52hearts)
“Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled...”
– Pearl S. Buck (via libraryland)
“Lets face it. Love is an animal. Though my grandfather told me once that love is...”
– Clayton Austin, brilliant wedding photographer (via catjuan)
April 2011
“Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable....”
– Possession, A.S. Byatt (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Don’t. It’s a bad...”
– Toni Morrison ( (via peacelovedeathmetal)
“One of these days, I’m going to publish a book of all the pictures I did not...”
– Rene Burri (via photojojo)
“I met a wonderful new man! He’s fictional, but you can’t have everything.”
– The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Woody Allen (via quote-book)
