December 2010
64 posts
“Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring,...”
– André Breton (via bedfellows)
“They thought death was worth it, but I
Have a self to recover, a queen.
Is she...”
– Stings, Sylvia Plath (via aplathaday)
“Are there ever adequate words for this experience? When you are suddenly...”
– Deb Caletti (via itookadeepbreath)
“That’s usually what makes people love any book: They believe the story that they...”
– Chuck Klosterman, Downtown Owl (via heyireadbooks)
“But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple then, not...”
–
Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast
(via shanalama)
“So you live day by day and enjoy what you have and do not worry. You lie and...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast (via shanalama)
“And now take down the following important remark: the artist in me has been...”
– Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (via daisyblue)
“Because if this is gonna be a Christian nation that DOESN’T help the poor,...”
– Stephen Colbert (via loveyourchaos)
“She tells me that at least when she was younger she felt lost in her own special...”
– Douglas Coupland (via suzywire)
❒ Single ❒ Taken ✔ Donde está la bibliotecá?
“Always trust someone who is seeking the truth , never trust someone who found it”
– Jordan Maxwell (via onlyjoyreturns)
“Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live...”
– William Faulkner (via carouselinparis)
thepaperdollspeaks:
miss[lead]ing. when the cat’s away, the mouse will write him letters but never send them.
“They stopped thinking with an almost painful relief, stopped seeing; they only...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night (via shanalama)
“If you tell yourself like a story, it doesn’t seem so bad.”
—Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson
“I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please,...”
– Sylvia Plath (via multitasker)
“I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please,...”
– Sylvia Plath (via multitasker)
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
– Oscar Wilde (via libraryland)
Three fourths perfection one fourth broken glass:... →
“He’s a tourist. He vacations in people’s lives, takes pictures, puts them in his scrapbook, and moves on. All he’s interested in are stories. Basically, Leslie, he’s selfish. And you’re not. That’s why you don’t like him.”
—
Ron Swanson, Parks and Recreation.
Just started watching this…
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I...”
– Emily Dickinson (via eudaimonia)
