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December 2012
136 posts
“I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of...”
– From “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” - Wallace Stevens (via wingedescape)
“A human being is a being who is constantly ‘under construction,’ but also, in a...”
– Jose Saramago (via quote-book)
“May there be kindness in your gaze when you look within.”
– John O’Donohue (via nirvikalpa)
“I missed him. Love, I realized, was something your spine memorized. There was...”
– Lorrie Morre, Anagrams (via helplesslyamazed)
“Word of advice: wear what you want… just learn how to run real fast.”
– Marc, Ugly Betty (via notgivingupjustyet)
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we...”
– Henri J.M. Nouwen (via kari-shma)
“That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.”
– John Green (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via girlwithoutwings)
“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office...”
– ~ Jack Kerouac (via saddest-summer)
“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
– Albert Einstein (via mitralvalves)
“The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook (via helplesslyamazed)
“In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only...”
– Haruki Murakami, After Dark (via rainier)
“It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will.”
– Heather Brewer (via kari-shma)
“Sometimes we don’t know our own strength. It can be hard to tell just how much...”
– Everwood (via schwenkkkk)
“The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have...”
– Oscar Wilde (via loveyourchaos)
“I am love, I am music, she thinks. Let’s dance.”
– Maria, Eleven Minutes, Paulo Coelho (via nubivagantmusings)
“‘For a while’ is a phrase whose length can’t be measured. At least by the person...”
– Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun (via helplesslyamazed)
“Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are...”
– Mitch Albom (Tuesdays with Morrie)
“That’s how people live, by telling stories. What’s the first thing a kid says...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides (via creatingaquietmind)
“This is about all the bad days in the world. I used to have some little bad days...”
– Tom Waits (via kari-shma)
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
– Gustave Flaubert (via quote-book)
“Every person before me is a person, but they’re a world before that. We are all...”
– Christopher Krovatin (Venomous)
“If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s this: We all want everything to be okay....”
– David Levithan (via arabarabarab)
“I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong...”
– Susan Cain (via nathanielstuart)
“Would you dance with me
in the middle of this room
if I took your hand?”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
“You spend your whole life stuck in the labryinth, thinking about how you’ll...”
– Looking for Alaska, John Green (via quote-book)
“She gave me a pen. I gave her my heart and she gave me a pen.”
– Lloyd Dobler in ‘Say Anything’ (via quote-book)
“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths...”
– Neil Gaiman; The Sandman, Vol. 3: Dream Country (via wordpainting)
“The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a...”
– Mark Twain (via quote-book)
“A good night’s sleep helps you perform well in school, and so if you’re a...”
– Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy (via yeahwriters)
“The consequence of this is that I’m always finding humans at their best and...”
– Markus Zusak, The Book Thief (via cyrtenes)
“She wasn’t bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The...”
– Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower (via rootbear)
“If you’re sitting in pitch black darkness, all you can really do is sit tight...”
– Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior (via quote-book)
“A melancholy can be sweet. It’s not a mean thing, but it’s something that...”
– Bill Murray (via inennui) (via fairphantom) (via allgreendreams, silenceofthesirens)(via aquieterstorm) (via booklover, booklover)
“I wanna be the thought that slips your mind, the thought that makes you come to...”
– Andrea Gibson (via loveyourchaos)
“It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.”
– Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt (via wrists)
“Give your children words, about themselves, and their body. Naming is powerful....”
– somaticstrength. Your innocence will not save you: conservative Christianity and childhood sexual abuse. Trigger warning: childhood sexual violence/abuse. (via feminismduh)
“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing...”
– Margaret Atwood, from “The Blind Assassin” (2000). Thank you, Memory Green. (via crashinglybeautiful)
“Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via timequalifies) 