January 2012
287 posts
December 2011
237 posts
Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I...
– Neil Gaiman (via compassio)
Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world...
– Lauren Oliver, Delirium (via larmoyante)
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...
– Neil Gaiman (via compassio)
As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer’s long...
– Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible (via larmoyante)
Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I’m gazing at a distant star. It’s...
– Haruki Murakami (via compassio)
I’m afraid of time… I mean, I’m afraid of not having enough time. Not enough...
– Ann Brashares (via larmoyante)
Why can’t we get all the people together in the world that we really like and...
– Charles M. Schulz (via larmoyante)
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I don't think I make much sense.
It’s strange to think about how we are all so sad right now but eventually that sad feeling will go away for everyone but the people who are the saddest, and then they will be all alone, three months from now, when they realize that they need to call her and tell her something, only to remember that she died.
You,” he said, “are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I...
– Emilie Autumn, The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls (via larmoyante)
aliru:
that was a rough morning
It’s being here now that’s important. There’s no past and there’s no future....
– George Harrison (via larmoyante)
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together...
– Margaret Mitchell (via larmoyante)
Grant yourself a moment of peace, and you will understand how foolishly you have...
– Chinese proverb (via larmoyante)
There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven’t had,...
– Robert Goolrick, The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life (via larmoyante)
The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are...
– Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning (via larmoyante)
I am so unbelievably sad
and it wasn’t even my mother who died. My heart is absolutely aching for Mike Danielewicz and what he is going through right now. The worst things always happen to the best people.
thoughts
I’ve learned that I initially dislike british shows but end up becoming obsessed within a couple episodes. Except for Sherlock. That was amazing from the beginning.
I feel like going for a hike today. I wonder if I can make that happen.
I’m moving into the downstairs bedroom when my sister leaves for AmeriCorps in February. That is, if I’m not in India, Nepal, Tibet, or...
I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand and the Eskimos...
– Brian Andreas, Story People (via larmoyante)
Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To...
– Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers (via larmoyante)
People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why...
– Emmanuel, Shapes of Silence (via larmoyante)
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in case you haven't noticed from my tumbling,
I spent my day off of work cleaning my room for about two hours, and have spent about eight so far watching british television.
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When I watch shows on BBC, I become a male...
THAT SWORD WAS MADE WITH FUCKING DRAGON FIRE AND THE DRAGON SAID IT MUST ONLY BE WIELDED BY ARTHUR AND YOU ARE JUST GOING TO SIT THERE AND LET SOMEONE ELSE USE THE MOTHERFUCKING DRAGON FIRE END OF THE WORLD SWORD?
You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in...
– Mitch Albom (via larmoyante)
We need much bigger pockets, I thought as I lay in bed, counting off the seven...
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via larmoyante)
It’s important to know that there is a difference between listening to your...
– Erin Foster, Hello Giggles (via larmoyante)
I am FREAKING OUT right now.
I can’t be in Ontario in a week..!!.1.111!
I don't know why this is such a hard decision.
My old college adviser connected me with one of her friends whose parents started an interesting organization in India, Nepal, Tibet, and Bangladesh, and she just emailed me, more or less preparing to offer me an internship starting in a week. And I know that I won’t stay at starbucks forever, but it is just the best job. I never feel like I’m working, I feel so appreciated, and I...
Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when...
– Henry Miller (via nitors)
Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like...
– Janet Fitch, White Oleander (via larmoyante)
Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose...
– Toni Morrison, Jazz (via larmoyante)
This is lich-rally making me fall asleep. →
A British band and a group of scientists have made the most relaxing tune in the history of man.
When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to...
– Lisa Unger (via venebelle)
If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it...
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (via omoso)