January 2012
December 2011
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2011 was terrifying, hopeful, agonizing, impatient, pessimistic, brave, loving, bored, long, not long enough, angry, melancholy, rude, unfair, sweet, ugly, soft, beautiful, quiet, loud, enigmatic, tangible, sympathetic, forgiving, lonely, challenging, overindulgent, infuriating, turbulent, passionate, calm, joyful, greedy, zealous and absolutely unforgettable. It was in equal parts full of...
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I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because...
– Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors
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Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
– Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone
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I want to travel on a train that smells like snowflakes. I want to sip in cafes...
– Tom Robbins
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She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her...
– Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
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And she understood as I did that when you sat down and put your hands on the...
– Homer and Langley, E. L. Doctorow (via clavicola)
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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
– Anais Nin
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Every morning you wait,
clothes, over a chair,
to fill yourself with
my...
– Pablo Neruda (via philphys)
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No matter what anyone says, words are worse than sticks or stones because you can’t pull them out. You can’t forget, and there’s nothing in the world that can soften the heat of syllables and consonants and vowels wreaking havoc beneath the pillows of your lungs or the curves of your heart. Words leave the invisible scars, the ones that litter the backs of your eyelids, the soft...
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I am vertical
But I would rather be horizontal.
I am not a tree with my root...
– Sylvia Plath, I Am Vertical
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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color...
– Charles Bukowski (via mourningspirit)
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So much of the city
is our bodies. Places in us
old light still slants...
– Anne Michaels, Phantom Limbs
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I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you’ll dream dangerously and...
– Neil Gaiman
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
– Maya Angelou
my general mood today:
give me pizza or give me death
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I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like...
– Jonathan Safran Foer
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things that will always be beautiful:
poetry
the Milky Way galaxy
how rain sounds against glass
how sure the word Mother is
the moon
orange peels
love— heaps of it
Franz Liszt’s Nocturne #3
how many synonyms there are for ‘beautiful’
the color blueberries stain your fingers with
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I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every...
– Lemony Snicket (via kimmyicecream)