March 2013
sinandserotonin:
tell me the story about how the sun loved the moon so much he died every night to let her breathe
“Do you ever feel that way?”
“Lonely?”
“Restless. As if you haven’t really met...”
– Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing (via creatingaquietmind)
“Growing apart doesn’t change the fact that for a long time we grew side by side;...”
– Ally Condie (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
“I saw that you were perfect and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not...”
– (via pfelps)
October 2012
“You’ve learned by now
to wait without waiting;
as if it were dusk
look into...”
– Philip Booth, from “How to See Deer” (via litverve)
“7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the...”
– 8 tips on how to write a great story from Kurt Vonnegut, narrated by the author himself. (via explore-blog)
“I think we all speak a different kind of language
than each other, but you...”
– “He Loves the Rain,” Shinji Moon (via vlorin)
“Nobody loves anybody like anybody wants to be loved.”
– Mignon McLaughlin (via creatingaquietmind)
“I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Ice Palace (via sweetleviathan)
“Intimacy is the art of licking wounds. And it’s taken me years to let anyone...”
– Sierra Demulder (via escaping-the-bell-jar)
“What is it about the moment you fall in love? How can such a small measure of...”
– David Levithan, Every Day (via pavorst)
“And she finds it difficult to believe — that a person would love her even when...”
– Margaret Atwood (via pavorst)
“For a while” is a phrase whose length can’t be measured. At least by the person...”
– Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun (via matt-is-just-around-the-corner)
“I want to know you. You seem like someone worth knowing. Every day I feel like...”
– Ryan O’Connell, I Want To Know You (via simply-quotes)
“I would love to live
like the river flows.
Carried by the surprise
of its own...”
– John O’Donohue (via emotional-algebra)
“I would like to be known as an intelligent woman, a courageous woman, a loving...”
– Maya Angelou (via sorakeem)
“If there’s one thing, I’ve learned, it’s this: We all want...”
– Everyday, David Levithan
“To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to...”
– E.E. Cummings (via city-of-lost-souls)
September 2012
“we don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”
– Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
“The Greek word for “return” is nostos. Algos means “suffering.” So nostalgia is...”
– Milan Kundera, Ignorance (via honeyforthehomeless)
“He knew why he wanted to kiss her. Because she was beautiful. And before that,...”
– Attachments (Rainbow Rowell)
“It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off...”
– Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall (via creatingaquietmind)
“Besides the obvious difference, there was not much distinction between losing a...”
– Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care (via creatingaquietmind)
Care too little, you'll lose them. Care too much,...
“Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness...”
– Osho (via suiicune)
“We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and...”
– Nicholas Sparks (via kari-shma)
“You are well within your rights to stand up, interrupt everyone around you and...”
– I Wrote This For You: The Intrusion (via creatingaquietmind)
August 2012
July 2012
“Or maybe it’s just that beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.”
– Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels (via 4mbivalent)
“There’s an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It’s when you meet the...”
– Chuch Palahniuk (via girlwithoutwings)
June 2012
“That night when you kissed me, I left a poem in your mouth, and you can hear...”
– Andrea Gibson, Yarn (via slutcyrus)
“Sometimes I touch the things you used to touch, looking for echoes of your...”
– Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You (via 4mbivalent) 