January 2012
“I cannot remember the books I’ve read any more than the meals I have eaten; even...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via teachingliteracy)
“I felt like I was sort of disappearing. It was that kind of a crazy afternoon,...”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via wistless)
“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. That is what life is.”
– Saul Bellow (via petalsquotesandthorns)
“When you remember me, it means you have carried something of who I am with you,...”
– Frederick Buechner (via middlenameconfused)
“Believe in love’s infinite journey, for it is your own, for you are love. Love...”
– Rumi (via simplyisis)
“Reading poetry, even if you are only reading to find a secret message within its...”
– Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto (via shesanargonaut)
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love...”
– Charles Bukowski (via girlwithoutwings)
“It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (via queerella)
“there is no action kind enough to express heartbreak.
I am left
shut,
the...”
– Stella Padnos, from “Start/The Stopping” (via awritersruminations)
“Generally, by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, and...”
– “The Velveteen Rabbit” by Margery Williams (via julie911)
“But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby....”
– Lemony Snicket (via lovewillfuckusapart)
“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.”
– Rumi (via illiejane)
“Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one’s...”
– Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living (via proustitute)
“The beauty of things must be that they end.”
– Jack Kerouac, Tristessa (via honeyforthehomeless)
“My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.”
– Coco Chanel (via misswallflower)
