December 2010
96 posts
Then she says, ‘I love you.’ Like three drops of blood falling onto snow.
– Jenny Downham, Before I Die | submitted by: http://mysoul-myheart.tumblr.com/ (via quote-book)
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This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see...
– Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed (via justanothermugglegirl)
Breakups, I’ve heard, are supposed to be just that. Breaks. Hard, clean breaks....
– Greg Behrendt & Liz Tuccillo (He’s Just Not That Into You, 2004)
He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with...
– Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (via colormerealist)
Baby, we’ll be fine
All we gotta do is be brave and be kind
– The National (Baby, We’ll Be Fine)
I could get used to anything—that is, not really get used, but somehow...
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From Underground (via alltomorrowspardis)
We were meant to lose people we love. How else would we know how important they...
– The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (via kari-shma)
The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.
– “Let the Great World Spin” by Colum McCann (via julie911)
heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the...
– Great Expectations - Charles Dickens (submitted by burnt-stars)
zach makes me laugh
Q: How many hipsters does it take to put in a light bulb?
A: It's some really obscure number, you probably havent heard it before.
In silence and alone; yet most people prefer to see everything in groups,...
– dorothy richardson, oberland (1927), p.25, (via modernistwomen)
Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.
– James Matthew Barrie (via kari-shma)
swishandflicker:
Oh, let’s get rich and buy our parents homes in the south of France.
Let’s get rich and give everybody nice sweaters and teach them how to dance.
Let’s get rich and build our house on a mountain making everybody look like ants.
From way up there, you and I.
You and I.
He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where...
– Leo Tolstoy (via quote-book)
Eventually it comes to you, the thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at...
– Lorraine Hansberry (via awritersruminations)
You have four years to be irresponsible here. Relax. Work is for people with...
– Tom Petty (via fuckyeahitszach)
All our fights and lies made us stronger. Thats where you can tell if its real...
– Edyl Patrick Victoria (via quote-book)
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.
– Charlie Chaplin (via kari-shma)
What we think, we become.
– Buddha (via kari-shma)
It’s strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling...
– T.S. Eliot (via fatalistichues) (via quote-book)
Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you...
– Anne Herbert (via bookobsessed)
Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything dances.
– Maya Angelou (via girlwithoutwings)
A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love...
– Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice
(via wickedfine)
Sometimes, I look outside and I think that a lot of other people have seen this...
– Stephen Chbosky (via julie911)
Your hands hold my arms
wrapping around you, we stare
into the mirror.
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
Screamin' to the Universe
dearoldlove:
All I want to do is scream to the universe how much I miss you. The worst part is I know I could have you back in a second if you knew, but nothing will have changed. So I stay sadly, painfully silent.