June 2013
13 posts
“If someone wants you in their life, they’ll make room for you. You shouldn’t have to fight for a spot. Never, ever insist yourself to someone who continuously overlooks your worth.”
—Unknown
“You don’t want me as I want you—you’re always wanting something else.”
—Virginia Woolf, from The Voyage Out
“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
—Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
“All this time
I drank you like the cure when maybe
you were the poison.” —Clementine von Radics
I drank you like the cure when maybe
you were the poison.” —Clementine von Radics
“I have acid rain in my brain and it’s killing the flowers in my heart.”
—Marianna Paige
May 2013
26 posts
I AM GOING TO PUNCH YOU IN THE MOUTH
WITH MY OWn mouth
softly
because i like you
“I want to be alone and I want people to notice me - both at the same time”
—Thom Yorke
Do you ever wonder about how an author would describe you in a novel? Not only your appearance but the way you talk and laugh and hold yourself and all the expressions on your face?
“Every star may be a sun to someone.”
—Carl Sagan
“I’m like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.”
—Samuel Beckett; “Waiting for Godot”
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
—Rumi
“I asked her if she believed in love, and she smiled and said it was her most elaborate method of self-harm”
—Benedict Smith
“There is some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers
“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.”
—Bill Bryson
April 2013
34 posts
“If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner”
—Tallulah Bankhead
“It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.”
—Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.”
—Oscar Wilde
“Love doesn’t just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven (via seabois)
