December 2011
52 posts
“There is something about talking in the night, with the shreds of sleep around...”
– Margo Lanagan, Tender Morsels
“Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts,...”
– Paulo Coelho (via stellablu)
“No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.”
– John Keating, Dead Poets Society.
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than...”
– Seneca (via pavorst)
“The sad truth is that man’s real life consists of a complex of inexorable...”
– Carl Jung, Man And His Symbols (via alexisorteasy)
“Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up tight struggling to...”
– Crank by Ellen Hopkins (via thechocolatebrigade)
“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to...”
– Saul Bellow (via pavorst)
“The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.”
– Lemony Snicket (via thechocolatebrigade)
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“We’re all lonely for something we don’t know we’re lonely for. How else to...”
– David Foster Wallace (via pavorst)
“Never, never, never, never give up.”
– Winston Churchill (via pavorst)
“But I swear I’ll never kiss anyone who doesn’t burn me like the sun.”
– Jens Lekman (via hungerforthegreatlight)
“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
– Cormac McCarthy (via pavorst)
“Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
– David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (via pavorst)
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
– Albert Camus (via pavorst)
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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their...”
– Oscar Wilde (via pavorst)
“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that’s beautiful.”
– Milan Kundera (via pavorst)
“Words are never ‘only words’; they matter because they define the contours of...”
– Slavoj Žižek (via pavorst)
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They decided to keep track of my body for an entire year. They worried for my health. They wanted to track the changes, to make sure everything was okay.
My heart was put on a monitor and they took photos of my back to keep track of skin tone. They measured the length of my arms and my hair and the number of freckles on my chin.
At the end of the year, they told me they’d found some disturbances....
“Sing me to sleep, sing me to sleep.
And then leave me alone,
don’t try to wake...”
– Asleep | The Smiths (via the-fiercest-fables)
“You know that place between sleeping and awake, that place where you can still...”
– J. M. Barrie (via pavorst)
“People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via anditslove)
“I don’t trust anyone who hasn’t been self-destructive in some way. And who...”
– Johnny Depp (via illkeepmyheadheldhigh)
“I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were...”
– Michael Cunningham (via misswallflower)
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“Fear is only a verb if you let it be don’t you dare let go of my hand.”
– Andrea Gibson - I Do (via lakilester)
“There are stars in your dark side brighter than the sun.”
– Andrea Gibson (via wrists)
“Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things...”
– Julian Barnes (via pavorst)
“Cause I know all of us are scratched even if you cannot hear it when we speak.”
– Andrea Gibson, Letter to the Playground Bully (via thatgaykid)
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“We have to create. It is the only thing louder than destruction.”
– Andrea Gibson, Yellowbird
“Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full...”
– Death (via verenargh)
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“There is nothing logical about cutting off the most important parts of yourself,...”
– Rudy Francisco
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“Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There’s a strong streak of...”
– David Foster Wallace, 1996 (via sometimesagreatnotion) (via wordpainting) (via nadia-neptura) (via mermaidcomplex) (via poetdreamer) (via adreamaday)
“Every time I fall in love I become absolutely, pathologically obsessed. The...”
– Sara Quin. (via wallofbooks)
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“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
– John Green, Paper Towns (via pavorst)
“Equality is a real issue everyday for those who don’t have it”
– Anna Bligh, Premier of Queensland (via winking-eye-alcohol-suggestion)
“Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be...”
– A bit of writing advice from Neil Gaiman
but also just life advice
(via drinkyourjuice)
"What if the baby you abort could have cured...
jenerally:
What if the trans* person beaten to death could have cured cancer?
What if the gay teen who committed suicide from bullying could have cured cancer?
What if that young girl sold into the sex trade and died from untreated STIs could have cured cancer?
What if one of those hundreds of thousands of civilians that have been killed in the war could have cured cancer?
What if that...
“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years, how man would...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via clavicola)
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“Do not put statements in the negative form.
And don’t start sentences with a...”
– William Safire, Great Rules of Writing (via pavorst)
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“I have never searched for happiness. Who wants happiness? I have searched for...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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“It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray