August 2009
1 post
July 2009
3 posts
“Maybe I’m dreaming you. Maybe you’re dreaming me; maybe we only exist in each...”
– The Time Traveler’s Wife (via thyblackbird)
June 2009
21 posts
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?”
– Ernest Hemingway (via reveriie)
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all of the lives I’m...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via oneheartbeating)
Watch(via atoms)
She’s amazing. Seriously.
“At a certain part in your life. Probably when too much of it has gone by. You...”
– Miss Dodger, Phoebe in Wonderland (via mypeterpancomplex)
“How many times have I told you:
the civilized world is a zoo, not a jungle....”
– Margaret Atwood (via aristobrat)
The Velveteen Rabbit
“What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. “Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?”
“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you...
“People always say that, when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But...”
– Jodi Picoult, Handle With Care (via suzywire)
“I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith,...”
– Sarah Dessen (via cigarettes-and-tea)
“What do you need to be happy?”
“You.”
– Chuck and Ned from Pushing Daisies. (via poisrouge)
I don't understand French, but if I could, I would...
Uzbekistan, The Sound of Animals Fighting (via suzywire)
“If I like you, that means at least one of these things: you are disinterested, I...”
– Mehmet Erdogan (via apologies)
2804.) I really love how cute your smile is....
(via savingsundays)
“She belonged to me,” Chris said simply. “She was, you know, all the things I...”
– Jodi Picoult, The Pact (via creampuff)
“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer; Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via logistics)
“Just one thing,” she says, raising her head and looking me straight in the eye....”
– Kafka On The Shore, Haruki Murakami (via bleary)
“There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, Yes, I’ve got...”
– Erna Bombeck (via bandages)
“There are people who put their dreams in a little box and say, Yes, I’ve got...”
– Erna Bombeck (via bandages)
Skins
Emily: What do you do if the one you love lets you down? Really fucks you over?
Thomas: You try to stop loving them.
Emily: Is that possible?
Thomas: No.
March 2009
4 posts
“For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there...”
– John Connolly (The Book of Lost Things) (via merricat)
“Before I met you, I used to dream you up and make you up in my mind. And all I...”
– Cobra Starship [The World has its Shine] (via itspouringmisery) (via erikavw) (via elliep) (via out-of-touch) (via jeezits) (via pieceofmymind) (via pretty-bird)
“Before I met you, I used to dream you up and make you up in my mind. And all I...”
– Cobra Starship [The World has its Shine] (via itspouringmisery) (via erikavw) (via elliep) (via out-of-touch) (via jeezits) (via pieceofmymind) (via pretty-bird)
November 2008
22 posts
“Once you realize your past is just a story, it has no power over you.”
“Throw yourself in the midst of danger,
But keep one eye open at night.”
– Elephants, Rachel Yamagata
“‘Cos my feelings never change a bit
I always feel like shit
I...”
– Elliott Smith, “I Didn’t Understand”
“So I’m taking these pills for to fill up my soul,
And I’m drinking...”
– Anna Nalick, “Catalyst”
“I bruise like a peach,
I mumble when I speak.
I’m in the gutter looking...”
“I love a pretty sadness in a face that varies every now and then.
Like...”
– Sir George Etherege
“I understand feeling as small and as insignificant as humanly possible. And how it can actually ache in places you didn’t know you had inside you. And it doesn’t matter how many new haircuts you get, or gyms you join, or how many glasses of chardonnay you drink with your girlfriends. You still go to bed every night going over every detail and wonder what you did wrong or how you could have...
Love
-noun
1. A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness.
2. A feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair.
xxx
I’m so close to being yours, won’t you stay stay with me?
“I loved him so but I let him go ‘cos I know he’d never love me back.”
– A Fine Frenzy, Near To You
“But my God, it’s so beautiful when the boy smiles.
Wanna hold him, maybe...”
– Anna Nalick, Breathe (2 AM)
“Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is...”
– Gary Zukav