December 2011
42 posts
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:...”
– Carl Jung
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Today’s the day - Aimee Mann
“The Japanese custom is to cremate a person who dies. If he has been vegetarian...”
– Herman Aihara, Acid & Alkaline
“You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase:...”
–
Henri Frederic Amiel
“I told a lie once in a verse. I said
I said I said I said ‘The heart will...”
– John Berryman, To Bhain Campbell
“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“In that bed
we invented insomnia.”
– Sarah Morgan (via loverofstories)
“I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t...”
– The Kindly Ones, Neil Gaiman (via letsfucktothesoundofshotguns)
“When you fall in love, it is a temporary madness.
It erupts like an earthquake,...”
– Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (via theangielife)
“I have always loved sleeping
more
than I have ever loved people
but that all...”
– Sherman Alexie (via carrierudzinski)
“She was an epic sort of lovely.
The kind you just can’t say no to.”
– Joshua Bennett
The Pale Queen's Literary Quotes: “Loretta, I love... →
palequeenliteraryquotes:
“Loretta, I love you. Not like they told you love is, and I didn’t know this either, but love don’t make things nice - it ruins everything. It breaks your heart. It makes things a mess. We aren’t here to make things perfect. The snowflakes are perfect. The stars are perfect. Not us. Not us! We are…
“When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of...”
– Isabel Allende
“به سراغ من اگر ميآييد،
نرم و آهسته بياييد، مبادا كه ترك بردارد
چيني نازك...”
– Sohrab Sepehri, from “The Oasis in the Moment” — he chose this excerpt for his epitaph. (via touba)
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“There are a thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them sufficient.”
-Marilynne Robinson
“When I die, I hope no one who ever hurt me cries. And if they cry, I hope their...”
– Nikki Giovanni (“when I die”)
“I’ll take her aside and say, ‘You are the best broken machine this universe has...”
– Ryler Dustin (via atomos)
“I like flaws and feel more comfortable around people who have them. I myself am...”
– Augusten Burroughs (via light-essence)
“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a...”
– Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (via soaringaboveitall)
“People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they...”
– Charles Bukowski (via thechocolatebrigade)
“I bet if you painted what’s in your heart, it could hang in a museum”
– Chuck Palahniuk
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seaweed-girl:
carla bruni: quelqu’un m’a dit
“You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful - and then you actually...”
– Doctor Who ( The Girl Who Waited,season 6-episode 10)
“You are not special. You’re not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You’re the...”
– Chuck Palahniuk - Fight Club (via melodyandviolence)
“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to...”
– Margaret Altwood (via atomiclanterns)
“love best the ones you find it most difficult to do so.”
– (via thekingofallwildthings)
“What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an...”
– Vincent van Gogh (via atomos)
“When I learned how to walk, I learned how to walk away.”
– Steph Davies, “Lessons Learned”. She’s a really wonderful singer-songwriter I had the privilege of meeting a few years ago. (via fromonesurvivortoanother)
“I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees.”
– Pablo Neruda (via girlwithoutwings)
“And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”
– Walt Whitman
“Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself - that...”
– Thomas Paine
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“the scent of a room that reminds me of you, a hint of perfume it reminds me of...”
– common (i want you)
in a real way.
“This is my kind of love. It’s the kind that moves on. It’s the kind that leaves...”
– Crown of Thorns, Mother Love Bone. (hopelessly devoted) (via shyofaspark)
“I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you’ve been doing. It’s a hundred years since we’ve met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.”
-Edith Wharton
“I’ve always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the...”
– -David Benioff (via maymaynot)