December 2012
4 posts
Beautiful, sobbing
high-geared fucking
and then to lie silently
like deer...
– Richard Brautigan, “Deer Tracks” (via coffeeisjolly)
I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody...
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals (via mirroir)
But sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people...
– Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Night-Time (via afffaire)
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the...
– Ernest Hemingway (via crashingtothesurface)
November 2012
5 posts
Just because two people are capable of deeply hurting each other over and over...
– Andrea Greb (via blua)
5 tags
My affections and wishes have not changed, but one word from you will silence...
– Jane Austen
4 tags
I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony....
– ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
I do not remember very many things from the inside out. I do not remember what...
– Marya Hornbacher (via ugh)
I want to be the one you want in your mind and your gut and your bathroom But I don’t want you to fuck the whole world to find out.
Charles Bukowski
September 2012
1 post
5 tags
Put your thoughts to sleep,
do not let them cast a shadow
over the moon of...
– Rumi
August 2012
5 posts
3 tags
Develop a mind that is vast like space, where experiences both pleasant and...
– Buddha
4 tags
You think because he doesn’t love you that you are worthless. You think that...
– Toni Morrison
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Had I known that the heart breaks slowly, dismantling itself into unrecognizable...
– Maya Angelou
July 2012
98 posts
I put my hand on him. Touching him has always been important to me, it was...
– Jonathan Safran Foer
3 tags
I laugh at those who think they can damage me. They do not know who I am, they...
– Epictetus
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps...
– Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)
How much of human life is lost in waiting.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
3 tags
The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the...
– Ian McEwan, Atonement
Depression is about anger, it is about anxiety, it is about character and...
– Tim Lott, Scent Of Dried Roses
The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.
– Alice Munro, Runaway
Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your...
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
– Rumi
He remained heartbroken, which meant one of two things: either his love was pure...
– Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way...
– John Green (via quotethat)
We are changed souls; we don’t look at things the same way anymore. For there...
– Douglas Coupland
Of everything I have seen,
it’s you I want to go on seeing:
of everything I’ve...
– Pablo Neruda
when I say that I miss you I mean something more,
i mean I’ve been biding my...
– Andrea Gibson
3 tags
Springtime always reminds me of how dead I am inside.
– Dorothy Parker
3 tags
I lie to myself all the time, but I never believe me.
– S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders
3 tags
In all this welter of women I still hadn’t got one for myself, not that I was...
– Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just...
– Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid