May 2010
“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think...”
– ~ Kurt Vonnegut (via gatekeeper)
“It’s hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now...”
– Jeanette Winterson (via allthis-beauty) (via quote-book)
April 2010
“It’s important to remember that feminism is no longer a group of organizations...”
– Anna Quindlen (via bearbearpdx) (via missworld)
“When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe...”
– Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes (via thoughtsdetained)
1 tag
“It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it...”
– Libba Bray (via thresca) (via quote-book)
“when hair falls off and eyes blur And
thighs forget(when clocks whisper
and...”
– (via eecummings)
“Without paying attention I had become what I wrote and I worried what would...”
– Stephen Elliott, The Adderall Diaries (via starryeyeddoll) (via quote-book)
“People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the...”
– Salma Hayek (via kari-shma)
1 tag
easy/lucky/free: SADNESS OF THE BODY: Mirror... →
SADNESS OF THE BODY: Mirror sadness, Sadness of [looking] like or unlike one’s parent; Sadness of not knowing if your body is normal; Sadness of knowing your [body is] not normal; Sadness of knowing your body is normal; Beauty sadness; Sadness of m[ak]eup; Sadness of physical pain;…
Fuck Yeah, Poetry!: Theme For English B →
The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you— Then, it will be true. I wonder if it’s that simple? I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem. I went to school there, then Durham, then here to this college on the hill above Harlem. I am…
“when things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting...”
– Will Grayson, Will Grayson. John Green & David Levithan. (via a-beautiful-mess) (via onthewing)
“What I’m really trying to say is I want the deepest, darkest, sickest parts of...”
– Lady GaGa
“you said Is
there anything which
is dead or alive more beautiful
than my...”
– (via eecummings) (via quote-book) (via iosoluno) (via iwasacamera-) (via somethingintellectual) (via thoughtnuggets) (via maddieness)
“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“This is a great picture of you. This is what you look like,” I tell her. And...”
– Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“This book was the result of many years’ yearning. A longing for something whose...”
– Wild, An Elemental Journey, Jay Griffiths
“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (via thechocolatebrigade) (via durian) (via jours) (via breathsoftruth)
“199. For to wish to forget how much you loved someone— and then, to actually...”
– Bluets, Maggie Nelson
“This is love, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer 