May 2013
256 posts
Every life is a piece of music. Like music we are finite events, unique...
– Hannibal Lecter (via nbchannibal)
Within the souls of the awkward and the overlooked often burns something...
– Jo Ann Beard (via larmoyante)
Women hold up half the sky
– Chinese Proverb (via larmoyante)
Don’t fall in love with a curious one.
They will want to know who you are,...
– Don’t Fall In Love With The Curious One (via sevenanchors)
She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors...
– Angela Carter, “The Lady of the House of Love” from The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories (via awritersruminations)
Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where your backbone ought to be.
– Clementine Paddleford (via creatureofcomfortable)
She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful,...
– Charles Bukowski, Factotum (via inmilkwood)
When you’re traveling, you are what you are, right there and then. People don’t...
– William Least-Heat Moon (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)
thepocketmouse:
“The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”
- Troy
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension,...
– Anaïs Nin (via thelostdeer)
5000letters:
Lover, I had to lick my fingers for every secret I peeled from your skin, my mouth had not yet known thoughts like yours and the last ‘sometimes my laughter turns into crying because the world is so devastating and so devastated and that brings me to my knees.’ I could still taste that one, days after, bitter, beautiful and raw, slightly like lemon zest and slightly like nothing at...
We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a...
– Audre Lorde (via ryanbhilliard)
You have my permission not to love me;
I am a cathedral of deadbolts
and I’d...
– Rachel McKibbens, “Letter From My Brain To My Heart” (via larmoyante)
But she was going to give her very best imitation of undiluted sunshine, the...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Benediction (via goldenlocket)
I’m one of those people that you have to keep your eye on or I’ll wander off...
– Jack White (via de-licacy)
We are funny creatures. We don’t see the stars as they are, so why do we love...
– Saul Bellow (via fleurstains)
The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain.
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via fawnes)
There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can...
– Björk (via prettyy)
You write so beautifully, the inside of your mind must be a terrifying place
I like you so much I had to have therapy for it.
And I like you so much I...
– Daphne Gottlieb (via hellanne)
The way you slam your
body into mine reminds
me I’m alive, but monsters
are...
– Richard Siken
Snow and Dirty Rain (via jaimelannister)