January 2011
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Things I Do Not Understand And Definitely Am Not...
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You can’t cancel a crush.
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Expectation is the root of all heartache.
– William Shakespeare
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We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the...
– Katharine Hepburn (Me: Stories of My Life)
The point is to change certain ways of thinking—ways of feeling that have been...
– Paul Valéry, Monsieur Teste (via invisiblestories)
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The only bad thing about living alone is getting...
It’s a weird thing.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else...
– meg cabot (via thegirlwholovestoread)
Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a...
– Neil Gaiman (Fragile Things, Introduction)
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There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most...
– Peyton Conway March
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The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are...
– Fernando Pessoa (via suzywire)
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Beauty’s highest rewards are not for the timid.
– R. Neutra (via lisawiseman)
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The future has several names. For the weak, it is the impossible. For the...
– Victor Hugo (via excessivebookshelf)
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When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting...
– Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
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I write because, if I don’t. I will explode. I will start banging my head...
– Camille Moffat (Why Write?)
Life’s all about the revolution, isn’t it? The one inside, I mean. You can’t...
– Revolution By: Jennifer Donnelly (via amandariot)
Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you...
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via oceanofmind)
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she...
– Pablo Neruda (via clavicola)
What drives me to be an artist, to make the work I do and I think that a large...
– Phil Toledano (via lisawiseman)
It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is...
– Edmond Jabès (via aperfectcommotion)
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Should I seek out some tree? Should I desert these form rooms and libraries, and...
– The Waves, Virginia Woolf (via sketchofthepast, proustitute)
It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With...
– Carson McCullers (via sometimesagreatnotion)
Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must...
– J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan (via palelimbs)
I’m awful at small talk, so whenever our conversations hit a lull, my brain...
– Patrick Moberg (via ronenreblogs)
Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty...
– Into the Wild, Jon Krakauer (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding and, under ideal conditions,...
– E. B. White (via breathingbooks)
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She cried for herself, she cried because she was afraid that she herself might...
– John Cheever (via foudre)
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