September 2011
7 posts
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“People are just as wonderful as sunsets if I can let them be. When I look at a...”
– Carl Rogers (via fleurishes)
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love, humming: to Jane Cooney Baker, died 1-22-62 →
henrycharlesbukowski:
I will not find you on the street nor will the phone ring, and each moment will not let me be in peace. it is not enough that there are many deaths and that this is not the first;
it is not enough that I may live many more days, even perhaps, more years. it is not…
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“For she had embodied the Great Perhaps—she had proved to me that it was worth it...”
– John Green (via blua)
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“I like life and I’ve been so lucky, why shouldn’t I be happy?”
– Katharine Hepburn (via fuckyesoldhollywood)
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August 2011
11 posts
In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul. Jerzy Kosinski
“Nothing undoes the knot behind my chest
more than watching you take off your...”
– Thorpe Moeckel: Why I Go To Bed Earlier (via grammatolatry)
“The probability of separate worlds meeting is very small. The lure of it is...”
– Jeanette Winterson (via mscrankypants)
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“Don’t lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don’t have...”
– Sugar, Dear Sugar Advice Column (via dearly)
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“I observe, I write, I try not to remember the life I didn’t want to lose but...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via loveamongowls)
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HEED ALL: It's the Marilyn Monroe Cocktail...
fuckyesoldhollywood:
Source of this brilliance: http://www.1001cocktails.com/recipes/mixed-drinks/105199/cocktail-marilyn-monroe.html
Ingredients :
- 4 oz champagne - 1 oz brandy - 1 tsp grenadine syrup
Use a “In glass” for Marilyn Monroe drink recipe
Pour into a champagne saucer, and serve with two cherries on a stick. Serve in “Champagne Saucer” Garnish: No Ingredients: champagne....
“The tree lay down
on the garage roof
and stretched, You
have your heaven,
it...”
– William Carlos Williams, “The Hurricane” (via proustitute)
“Everything is more beautiful
because we’re doomed.
You will never be lovelier...”
– The Iliad (via thesemightysecrets)
“I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud. And I don’t...”
July 2011
7 posts
“God speaks to each of us before we are,
Before he’s formed us — then, in cloudy...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via estrangera)
The smiles of Hubbell Gardiner
always-fair-weather:
“John used to say “I love you” every day. I didn’t understand then, how lucky I...”
– Yoko Ono (via romanholidays)
“May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love,...”
– Ray Bradbury (via captainzoe)
June 2011
14 posts
“You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas...”
– Neil Gaiman (via writingadvice)
“My lover asks me:
“What is the difference between me and the sky?”
The...”
– Nizar Qabbani, My Lover Asks Me (via grammatolatry)
“One reason we struggle with insecurity: we’re comparing our behind the scenes to...”
– Steven Furtick (via jesssica)
“But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I...”
– Hemingway, A Moveable Feast (via frivolousandreckless)
“I tend to buy things I would never wear, only because I would like to be the...”
– Helena Bonham Carter (via forbiddenalleys)
le printemps: Albert Goldbarth, The Sciences Sing... →
foxandfayvel:
Physics says: Go to sleep. Of course you’re tired. Every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis to now. Quit tapping your feet. They’ll dance inside themselves without you. Go to sleep.
Geology says: It will be all right. Slow inch by inch…
“the world cannot bear the weightlessness of sparrows
or the confetti of our...”
– Denver Butson, heavy things (discovered through puddlenotes, thanks to enchanting)
“What we want most is only to be held…and told…that everything (everything is a...”
– Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms (via misswallflower)
fribble
wordjournal:
verb • /frĭbˈəl/ • to waste; to fritter (something) away.
noun • a frivolity; a trifle; frivolous person.
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees,...”
– The Great Gatsby (via skyeblue)
“What you are is a complicated girl with simple needs. You need your books and...”
– “Breakable You” by Brian Morton (via julie911)
“So this morning
I decided how I want to live,
What I want to give,
What kind...”
– Andrea Gibson, “Enough” (via yagner)
“Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest,...”
– Sylvia Plath (via lovelybluepony)
“My favorite outfit I’ve ever seen was on a six-year-old boy. One morning I was...”
– Michael Bastian on his favorite outfit he’s ever seen (via freshwithdepth)
May 2011
23 posts
“What I really want to say: That what the world really needs is a real feeling of...”
– Marilyn Monroe, at the end the last interview she ever gave.
This breaks my heart. You’ll never be a joke to me, Marilyn :)
“The winter I told you I think icicles are magic
you stole an enormous icicle...”
– Andrea Gibson, Maybe I Need You
listen to the audio of Andrea reading this here
(via grammatolatry)
Watchrosevawdrey:
epicnothingness:
lorinda-osopanda:
littlemisskeke:
when you leave your three year old brother in your room with your mac.
Aww, how cute.
OK, so he is the definition of precious!!!
“If you ever have children, tell them they must always be drunk. Drunk on love,...”
– Ben Hale, The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore (via elesheva)
"Subway Face", Langston Hughes
goodpoetry:
That I have been looking For you all my life Does not matter to you. You do not know. You never knew. Nor did I. Now you take the Harlem train uptown; I take a local down.
Brett Elizabeth Jenkins, "December 21st, 2002"
airwalker:
It’s said it takes seven years
to grow completely new skin cells.
To think, this year I will grow
into a body you never will
have touched.
(via syllablefingers)
“When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via katelizabeth)
“At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That’s a...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via forbiddenalleys)
“Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me...”
– Betty Smith (via frivolousandreckless)
“She’s a poignant work in progress: gawky, eager, quick to blush, easy to wound...”
– Karen Durbin (via silverslipper)
“It wasn’t that I forgot him. But at a certain point the memory of him stopped...”
– Bernhard Schlink (via autumnfringes)