May 2013
73 posts
“My second grade teacher liked to ask us,
“How do you feel today, on a scale of...”
– Kelsey Danielle, “A Diary of Colors” (via pigmenting)
“We’re stronger in the places that we’ve been broken.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via moaka)
“Find me now. Before someone else does.”
– Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (via jongy)
“I felt I was on fire with the things I could’ve told you. I just assumed you...”
– Conor Oberst (via eloquia)
“I am unattached; My heart is very quiet. The world is a curtain.”
– Sylvia Plath, from the draft of Poppies In July (via violentwavesofemotion)
“What do you say when the feelings don’t fit into words?”
– Tammara Webber (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
“I walked up the door,
shut the stairs,
said my shoes,
took off my prayers,...”
– Natalie Dorsch, “Just Because” (via sickur)
“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things...”
– Chuck Klosterman - Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story (via diluvie)
“People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of...”
– Neil Gaiman (via souls-entwined)
“I wrote a poem about it, and then threw it away, because that’s the last thing I...”
– Thought Catalog (via swimmingpoolforants)
“You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via man-of-prose)
“In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.”
– Gertrude Stein (via kitty-en-classe)
“I have so much I want to tell you, and nowhere to begin.”
– J.D. Salinger; Seymour - An Introduction (via kirathekiwi)
“We want to be poets of our life — first of all in the smallest most everyday...”
– Nietzsche, The Joyful Wisdom (via man-of-prose)
“Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have...”
– Maya Angelou (via creatingaquietmind)
lover, we will recover -: lissomelight: Rare... →
lissomelight:
Rare (lost) Words
Tristifical - causing to be sad or mournful. Eternitarian - one who believes in the eternity of the soul. Cosmogyral - whirling round the universe. Siagonology - study of jaw-bones. Autexousious - exercising or possessing free will. Nepheliad -…
“But none of them realized as Dalí did that dreams are actually not indistinct...”
– John Cooper Clarke, on Salvador Dalí (via nevver)
“She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love...”
– Ann Brashares (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
“I still felt sad, and a little incomplete. I suppose with so many things...”
– Rick Riordan, The Red Pyramid (via simply-quotes)
“So you plant your own garden and
decorate your own soul, instead of waiting...”
– Jorge Luis Borges (via Swanfeather Songs)
“If I’d learned nothing else from my life thus far, it was that you don’t always...”
– Margaret Peterson Haddix, Just Ella (via simply-quotes)
“I’m still writing about you and you haven’t read a word.”
– Travis Grandt (via souls-entwined)
“Only do not forget, if I wake up crying
it’s only because in my dream I’m a...”
– Pablo Neruda (via man-of-prose)
paisleyelephants:
I threw our love into the ocean and a week later it drifted ashore like a message in a bottle only the paper was wet and I couldn’t read what it said, kind of like how your voice sounds when you’re upset at things that are not me. I threw our love into the ocean and it returned to me although I figured it wouldn’t. We are the crumpled one, remember, I opened up the bottle and...
“I have a million things to talk to you about. A million things we have to talk...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via sickur)
“When I am with you, there is nowhere else I’d rather be. And I am a person who...”
– David Levithan (via a-quiet-old-soul)
“You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.”
– Franz Kafka (via goodniteowl)
“We’re all just walking each other home.”
– Ram Das (via writeletters-dearyou)
“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
– David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King (via prettypeachpeonies)
“Stars drowned in their lover, Sky.”
– 6-Word Story #95 (via writingsforwinter)
“It’s about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and...”
– Sofia Coppola (on Lost in Translation)
“Your eyelashes will write on my heart
the poem that could never come from the...”
– Rumi, translation by Maryam Mafi and Azima Melita Kolin (via larmoyante) 