“People may not tell you how they feel about you, but they always show you. Pay attention.”
—Keri Hilson (via budddha)
March 2013
90 posts
“If you can’t be criticized for it, you aren’t doing anything interesting.”
—(via tattoophrases)
“The first thing that reading teaches us is how to be alone.”
—Jonathan Franzen (via thenocturnals)
“It’s just this strange thing I do where I allow myself to briefly fall in love with another human being that I see on a train, or the sidewalk, or in a warm café.”
—Chelsea Fagan, Dear Beautiful Guys I Pass On The Street: I Love You (via thatkindofwoman)
“I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.”
—Sylvia Plath (via perfect)
“Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.”
—Sylvia Plath (via coldflowers)
“People say they love a lot of things, but they really don’t. It’s just a word that’s been overused. When you put your life on the line for somebody, that’s love. But you’ll never know it until you’re in the moment. When someone will die for you, that’s love, too.”
—Bob Dylan (via royalrex)
“Never compare, because all comparison is foolish. Everybody is just like himself. What is the point of comparing? Who are you to compare? And who are you to fix a criterion—to decide who is learned and who is not learned? Who are you to make a criterion who is beautiful and who is not beautiful? Who are you? Why should you judge?”
—Osho (via pluviali)
“Soon you’ll be ashes or bones. A mere name at most—and even that is just a sound, an echo. The things we want in life are empty, stale, trivial.”
—Marcus Aurelius (via coldflowers)
“It’s when you hide things that you choke on them.”
—Charles Bukowski (via remindmetobecontent)
“Sometimes a poem tells me, ‘No. No. I do not want to be written right now.’ And I understand. I am a patient lover.”
—N. Waheed (via flowerette)
“I hope I’m not around much to see what becomes of me.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (via cavum)
“People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
—Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides (via perfect)
“
She’ll die.
She’s going to die.
That’s what’s going to happen.
She’ll kill herself.
She’ll kill herself over something which doesn’t seem to matter.
” —Virginia Woolf, “The Hours” (via fabulousbitch69)
“I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (via spenceralthouse)
“Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.”
—J.D.Salinger (via anally)
“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
—Nicole Krauss, The History of Love (via larmoyante)
“I have buried you in every place I’ve been. You keep ending up in my shaking hands.”
—Bon Iver (via sorakeem)
“I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the only person in the world, then, who never becomes sad. Perhaps I am lucky.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated (via 13neighbors)
“I eat flowers
because you are what you eat
and I want to be beautiful.” —C.C (via crystalpony)
because you are what you eat
and I want to be beautiful.” —C.C (via crystalpony)
“You discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom, absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an illness- monotony, boredom, and death. Millions live like this, or die like this, without knowing. And then some shock treatment takes place- a person, a book, a song, and then it awakens them and saves them from death.”
—Anaïs Nin (via zealotry)
“I tell my students, it’s not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What’s more difficult is to identify with someone you don’t see, who’s very far away, who’s a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.”
—Chinua Achebe, 1930-2013 (via blunderbussmag)
“Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say “My tooth is aching” than to say “My heart is broken.”
—C.S. Lewis (via godmoves)
“Just because I don’t talk about it, doesn’t mean I forget.”
—Katja Millay, The Sea of Tranquility (via nsnklv)
“I think I’m in love with missing you more than I’m in love with you.”
—Sylvia Plath (via drunkblogging)
“You don’t need water to feel like you’re drowning, do you?”
—Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes)
“I figured out that I can’t forget. I can’t really forgive. But I can live. Live with it. Like you live with a scar or a limp or whatever. You always know it’s there. It reminds you never to let yourself do anything so stupid and horrible and wrong again. I step out of my rut, step again, and keep stepping.”
—Right Behind You by Gail Giles (via poetrea)
“‘She’s never where she is,’ I said. ‘She’s only inside her head.’”
—White Oleander (via petrichour)
“Emotionally, I was withdrawn from the objective world; my desires floated loosely within the walls of my consciousness, contained and controlled.”
—Richard Wright, Black Boy (via c-ovet)
“Nothing lasts, but nothing is lost.”
—William Blake (via intensifyit)
“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word”
—George R.R. Martin (via coldflowers)
“People can be cruelest to those they love.”
— Veronica Rossi, Under the Never Sky (via dulcetdecember)
“I let it go. It’s like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.”
—Joanne Harris (via hellanne)
“She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you’re swimming and you want to put your feet down on something solid, but the water’s deeper than you think and there’s nothing there.”
—Julia Gregson, East of the Sun (via diluvie)
“We didn’t just read poetry. We let it drip from our tongues, like honey.”
—Tom Schulman, screenwriter, Dead Poets Society (via diluvie)
“When something bothered me, I didn’t talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took action alone. Not that I really felt lonely. I thought that’s just the way things are. Human beings, in the final analysis, have to survive on their own.”
—Haruki Murakami (via hellanne)
“Some people fall apart when they get hurt. Puddle into apathy and despair and never recover. They wait all their lives for someone to come along and rescue them.”
—Karen Marie Moning, Iced (via diluvie)
“I’m a mess of unfinished thoughts.”
—John Mayer (via raspberrying)
“There’s no way to release yourself from a memory. It ends when it wants to end, whether it’s in a flash or long after you’ve begged it to stop.”
—David Levithan (via hellanne)
“The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.”
—Charles Bukowski (Ham on Rye)
“I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept around the clock or missed two nights of sleeping, worked too hard and too long in glory, or slobbed for a time in utter laziness. I’ve lifted, pulled, chopped, climbed, made love with joy and taken my hangovers as a consequence, not as a punishment.”
—John Steinbeck (via hellanne)
“But she might hold him. That was all that mattered now. To hold him. To hold him. Not to let him go. Make him stay.”
—Ernest Hemingway (via hellanne)
“It’s so nice
to wake up in the morning
all alone
and not have to tell somebody
you love them
when you don’t love them
any more.” —Richard Brautigan (via hellanne)
to wake up in the morning
all alone
and not have to tell somebody
you love them
when you don’t love them
any more.” —Richard Brautigan (via hellanne)
“Don’t settle. Don’t finish crappy books. If you don’t like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you’re not on the right path, get off it.”
—Chris Brogan (via dreamingdreamswithhappy-endings)
“It is okay to want your own happiness. It’s okay to care about yourself the most. You are not obligated to sit there and smile and swallow every bit of shit everyone heaps on you. You are more than furniture, you’re more than window dressing, you’re not their shiny toy. You’re human, and you have the right to say “That was shitty of you”. You have a right to protest your own mistreatment and set boundaries for respectful interactions. The rest of the world doesn’t realize you have this right, and they will act offended and appalled when you exercise it, but it is yours.”
—(via hedgehoglife)
“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word”
—George R.R. Martin (via pensare)
“But some people can’t tell where it hurts. They can’t calm down. They can’t ever stop howling.”
—Margaret Atwood (via veg-pits)
“And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”
—Haruki Murakami, Kafka On The Shore (via l-i-o-n-s)
“I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.”
—Sylvia Plath (via paulstudd)
