May 2013
78 posts
“We are the generation of nostalgia. We grew up in the age of transition. From...”
– This is the best/truest thing I’ve read in so long (via thesleepingfawn)
But this explains the 90s kids
(via thebbcisslowlykillingme)
Very Truly Yours: I am not the first person you... →
thunderpopcola:
I am not the first person you loved. You are not the first person I looked at with a mouthful of forevers. We have both known loss like the sharp edge of a knife. We have both lived with lips more scar tissue than skin. Our love came unannounced in the middle of the night. Our love came when we’d…
“Stop trying to ‘get it together’. The biggest lie we’re told when we’re growing...”
– ~ Unknown (via conflictingheart)
“The way to love someone is to lightly run your finger over that person’s soul...”
– ~ Keith Miller (via conflictingheart)
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“He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.”
– Joseph Heller
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“Ghosts don’t haunt us. That’s not how it works. They’re...”
– Sue Grafton
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“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn’t matter....”
– Richard P. Feynman
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“The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.”
– Edward Gibbon
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“If you obey all the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
– Katharine Hepburn
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“There’s things that happen in a person’s life that are so scorched...”
– John Boyne
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“You know how sometimes you lie in bed at night and think, “What if the law...”
– Elaine May
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“There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as...”
– Adrienne Rich
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“It is never too late to be wise.”
– Daniel Defore
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“If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need...”
– Gary Paulsen
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“We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created....”
– Barbara Taylor Bradford
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Very Truly Yours: There will be several days that... →
thunderpopcola:
There will be several days that you daydream about stepping in front of a city bus. Don’t. It will not be beautiful. It will not be brave. It will be selfish. It will be broken. Your mother will cry.
Don’t write for him. Write for you. Write for others like you. Write so the girl that thinks…
“I can get my head turned by a good-looking guy as much as the next girl. But...”
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies (via creatingaquietmind)
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“I knew when I said
I love you
that I was inventing a new alphabet
for a city...”
– Nizar Qabbani (1957)
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