April 2013
5 posts
March 2013
3 posts
Sometimes I miss you
the way someone drowning
remembers the air.
– Tim Seibles (via fawun)
Only if I move my arm a certain way,
it comes back.
Or the way the light bends...
– Jane Hirshfield, “To Hear the Falling World” (via litverve)
February 2013
2 posts
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be...
– Simone de Beauvoir (via moldavia)
I had that terrible feeling you get when you realize that you’re stuck with who...
– Nick Hornby, A Long Way Down (via dulcetdecember)
January 2013
8 posts
I said never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The...
– Iain S. Thomas - Intentional Dissonance (via thenineteenthsecond)
Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem...
– Ray Bradbury (via mirroir)
All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine...
– Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven (via novembier)
I’m like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.
– Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (via nagging)
I feel as though I have no real purpose, like I am not doing anything beneficial...
– (via phaunos)
It’s funny how someone can be such an integral part of your life, like you laugh...
– Sarah Ockler, Fixing Delilah (via larmoyante)
And anyway, even when I like a person there is a weariness that comes. I can be...
– Elizabeth Berg (via creatingaquietmind)
It’s not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard, she...
– “Bittersweet” by Shauna Niequist (via kari-shma)
December 2012
9 posts
When I meet you in that moment, I’m no longer a part of your future. I start...
– Sarah Kay (via potterology)
Even if it’s a dumb story, telling it changes people just the slightest little...
– John Green (via potterology)
Your body is the house you grew up in, how dare you try to burn it to the...
– Sierra Demulder (via cariosus)
a bouquet of clumsy words: you know that place between sleep and awake where...
– e.e.cummings (via beautyisanillusion)
Next to the highest peak of happiness, there’s the deepest gap of pain.
– Octavian Paler (via someone-who)
Sometimes someone says something really small and it just fits into this empty...
– Angela, “My So Called Life” (via dulcetdecember)
You are, at once, both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.
– Franz Kafka (via 24ribs)
Just marry your conscience. Marry the one who makes you want to be a better...
– Jay Leno (via: always-and-forever-mine)
What little I’ve accomplished has been by the most laborious and uphill work,...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via interruptedbycarelesshearts)
He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He...
– Lois Lowry, The Giver (via hollowing)
To believe in love, to be ready to give up anything for it, to be willing to...
– Leonardo DiCaprio (via hollowing)
November 2012
6 posts
I hope she’ll be a fool — that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via thenocturnals)
Sometimes you just have to be brave. You have to be strong. Sometimes you just...
– James Marsden (via runningtothefinish)
Only trust someone who can see these three things in you: The sorrow behind your...
– (via blua)
You will learn how to help yourself. It will break your heart, and it will make...
– PostSecret (via creatingaquietmind, 472239364)
October 2012
23 posts
Somewhere, far down, there was an itch in his heart, but he made it a point not...
– The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (via thenocturnals)
I would die for you. But I won’t live for you.
– Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower (via ridingsidesaddle)
I’m attracted to the extreme light and the extreme dark. I’m interested in the...
– Johnny Depp (via creatingaquietmind)
I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with...
– John Green (via lasbien)
Sometimes it’s better to stay in the dark, because in the dark there may be...
– Meredith Grey
We’re so busy trying to get out of that nest… We don’t think about the fact that...
– Grey’s Anatomy
Recovery is not a team sport. It’s a solitary distance run. It’s long. It’s...
– Greys Anatomy
So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and...
– A Room of One’s Own, Virginia Woolf
It’s surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that...
– Sidney J. Harris
When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
– Ernest Hemingway (via rwilke)
I’ll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the...
– Henry Rollins (via drowsybears)
I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a...
– The Perks of Being a Wallflower
In Health, we once saw a documentary on migraines. One of the men interviewed...
– Jay Asher, Thirteen Reasons Why