February 2012
12 posts
“Don’t do what you want. Do what you don’t want. Do what you’re trained not to...”
– Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk (via floatalong) (via truthfullies) (via weareinfinite)
“Perhaps it’s the havoc,
summer gone and the world
tipped like a cup. Or
how...”
– An Explanation for Wednesday by Kristy Bowen (with thanks to halfstrippedtrees)
“We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else...”
– David Levithan, Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List (via durianquotes)
January 2012
50 posts
“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable...”
– Carl Jung (via delicatelybruised)
waldosia
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. [Brit. wallesia] a condition characterized by scanning faces in a crowd looking for a specific person who would have no reason to be there, which is your brain’s way of checking to see whether they’re still in your life, subconsciously patting its emotional pockets before it leaves for the day.
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I teach silence in all languages
through intensive examination of:
the starry...”
– Wisława Szymborska, from “Classifields” (translated by S. Barańczak and C. Cavanagh)
“Her heart was heavy because it was open, and so things filled it, and so things...”
– Mr. Fox, Helen O (via dondante)