January 2012
“He said it would be very nice to come home and be in the wrong house. To eat...”
– J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction (via knockturn)
“All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through...”
–
Miranda July, It Chooses You
(via leopoldgursky)
“If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony;...”
– Simon Van Booy (via anatomyalice)
“I enjoyed hearing about faraway places. I had stocked up a whole store of these...”
– Pinball, 1973 (via harukimurakami)
“And then she asked, “What’s wrong?”
Everything.
But of course, I couldn’t...”
– (via candlelightdreams)
“I drive around the streets
an inch away from weeping,
ashamed of my...”
– Charles Bukowski (via trua)
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“I like drinking coffee alone and reading alone. I like riding the bus alone and...”
– (via overboarddd)(via thenightmarestops)
“To hell, to hell with balance! I break glasses; I want to burn, even if I break...”
– Anaïs Nin (via thenocturnals)
“It is one of the peculiar truths of life that people often say things that they...”
– Lemony Snicket (via doorsofhappiness)
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“Everything that surrounds us becomes part of us, it seeps into us with every...”
– Fernando Pessoa(The Book of Disquiet)
“Why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that...”
– Ayn Rand (via funeral)
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So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them. — C. McCann
“I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think...”
– David Lynch (via terramantra)
“For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin — real life....”
– Fr. Alfred D’Souza (via funeral)
“I don’t know any more. I used to know, but I lost the knowledge a long time ago....”
– J.D. Salinger, “A Girl I Knew” (via liquidnight)
“When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, from “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” (via weissewiese)
“In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the...”
– Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion (via periferie)
“I don’t want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value....”
– ― Robert Walser, The Tanners (via ratak-monodosico)
“Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.”
– Bertolt Brecht (via nathanielstuart)
“Long after her death I felt her thoughts floating through mine. Long before we...”
– Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (via moldavia)
“I felt homesick, but I was home.”
– Sarah Silverman, on depression (via moonsafaris)
“It’s so clever of you, knowing what you want. I’ve no idea what I want. Except...”
– Sebastian, Brideshead Revisited (via frogsandcrowns)
