April 2011
3 tags
“When does real love begin? At first it was a fire, eclipses, short circuits,...”
– Anais Nin
March 2011
7 tags
“In praise of my husband’s hair: A woman is alone in labor, for it is an...”
– The Blue Jay’s Dance: A Birth Year, Louise Erdich
6 tags
“She sits and listens with crossed legs under the batik house-wrap she wears,...”
– All Marbles Accounted For, Saul Bellow
6 tags
“Steadily, the room shrank, till the book thief could touch the shelves within a...”
– The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
1 tag
“There was a magic about the sea. People were drawn to it. People wanted to love...”
– Cecelia Ahern (via ish07)
6 tags
“There were intervals in which she could sit perfectly still, enjoying the outer...”
– Middlemarch, George Eliot
5 tags
“One autumn night, five years before, they had been walking down the street when...”
– The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
4 tags
“The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop...”
– Katherine Mansfield
5 tags
“In spite of everything I loved you, and will go on loving you—on my knees,...”
– Vladimir Nabokov
“At length the moon rose and its polished coin, though obscured now and then by...”
– The Years, Virginia Woolf (via sketchofthepast)
5 tags
“Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a...”
– Sylvia Plath
