October 2011
1 post
June 2011
1 post
The story of my life is the story of half-finished projects and half-read books.
– Sufjan Stevens
Read Sufjan’s entire conversation with author Thomas Pletzinger now over at BOMB.
(via fuckyeahsufjanstevens)
April 2011
9 posts
You forget all of it anyway. First, you forget everything you learned - the...
– Gabrielle Zevin (Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac)
You know it’s never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It’s always seventy-thirty, or...
– Jodi Picoult (Mercy)
Don’t be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young...
– Stephen Colbert (via quote-book)
This is how it works. I love the people in my life, and I do for my friends...
– James Lecesne (via kari-shma)
I’m not stable enough emotionally to even hug you without meaning it with every...
– Jenette Ulyas (via schwenkkkk)
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the...
– Roald Dahl (via kari-shma)
March 2011
25 posts
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and...
– Sylvia Plath (via kari-shma)
It’s true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without...
– Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer (via bonjourbryn)
When you see for the first time, a great laughter arises in you - the laughter...
– Osho (via breatheuniverse)
We were never lovers, and we never will be, now. I do not regret that, however....
– The Sandman: The Wake, Neil Gaiman (via 8346757) (via neilgaiman) (via lovebot)
Some people pass through your life and you never think about them again. Some...
– The Wonder Years | Submitted by erikajonas (via quote-book)
Almost everything—all external expectations, all pride, all fear of...
– Steve Jobs (via quote-book)
It always fascinated me how people go from loving you madly to nothing at all,...
– 2 Days in Paris (VIA foxyyroxyy)
Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.
– Josephine Hart (via kari-shma)
You’re the one to whom nobody verses I love you
Unless you say it first
So you...
– Shine, Anna Nalick (via kari-shma)
it’s true man. Sometimes, you have to move out of that space and time and start...
– Keltie Colleen (via allyourtomorrowsstarthere)
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and...
– Sylvia Plath (via kari-shma)
Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the...
– Norman Vincent Peale (via thresca)
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to...
– Voltaire (via kari-shma)
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes...
– Henry Rollins (via esdeez)
February 2011
15 posts
The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite...
– Annie Dillard (via girlwithoutwings)
You fall in love, it’s intoxicating, and for a little while you feel like you’ve...
– Man Walks into a Room by Nicole Krauss (via quote-book)
If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the...
– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (via psychotherapy)
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps...
– Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged)
soulflwr:
I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my idea of them.
— Anaïs Nin
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a...
– Deepak Chopra (via quote-book)
come home to me.
Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have...
– Tom Stoppard (via suzywire)