April 2010
8 posts
“I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed this, but first impressions are often...”
– A Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket (via quote-book)
“Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you...”
– Mark Twain (via solarelephant) (via quote-book)
“When you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.”
– Neil Gaiman | Coraline (via julie911) (via quote-book)
“Buy the ticket, take the ride.”
– Hunter S. Thompson
“…Passion is passion. It’s the excitement between the tedious spaces, and it...”
– “Savannah,” Nicholas Sparks, Dear John (via quote-book)
“We must never cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be...”
– T S Eliot | (submitted by: paloma-dove) (via quote-book)
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please...”
– Bill Cosby (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
March 2010
23 posts
Andrea Gibson - Maybe I Need You
The winter I told you I think icicles are magic you stole an enormous icicle from a neighbors shingle and gave it to me as a gift I kept it in my freezer for seven months until the day I hurt my foot I needed something to reduce the swelling love isn’t always magic sometimes its just melting or its black and blue where it hurts the most last night I saw your ghost pedaling a bicycle...
“Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you’ll be criticized anyway....”
– Eleanor Roosevelt (via quote-book)
“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public...”
– Cyril Connolly (via blnkpgs) (via quote-book)
“I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his...”
– Sylvia Plath (via nihilnoetia) (via quote-book)
Mahmoud Darwish - Words
When my words were wheat I was earth. When my words were anger I was storm. When my words were rock I was river When my words turned honey Flies covered my lips.
“First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.”
– Epictetus
Julio Cortázar - Para leer en forma interrogativa...
To be read in the interrogative Have you seen have you truly seen the snow the stars the felt steps of the breeze Have you touched really have you touched the plate the bread the face of that woman you love so much Have you lived like a blow to the head the flash the gasp the fall the flight Have you known known in every pore of your skin how your eyes your hands your sex your soft heart...
“The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only...”
– Stephen King (via lovekat04) (via writingsarah) (via quote-book)
“All people are quite complicated really and most people are nuts, and so the...”
– Johnny Depp (via KneeTwo) (via quote-book)
“Let’s be ourselves for this moment in time; hearts on our sleeves, vulnerable to...”
– Eve Litvak (via quote-book)
1 tag
“She decided to free herself, dance into the wind, create a new language. And...”
– Monique Duval (via quotewhore)
“I burn like a good bonfire
In whatever I do
I burn like a good bonfire
And I...”
– Lamb - Bonfire (via quote-book)
“Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid.”
– Basil King
Curiosity →
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
“I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to...”
– Audrey Hepburn (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
February 2010
14 posts
“All girls should have a poem
written for them even if
we have to turn this...”
– Richard Brautigan — All Girls Should Have A Poem
(submitted by talkplaylove)
(via quote-book)
“I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like...”
– Ani Difranco. (via dearamzheees) (via fatalistichues) (via quote-book)
“The truth you believe and cling to makes you unavailable to hear anything new.”
– Pema Chodron (via yearslater) (via quote-book)
Tom: “We don’t have to label what we’re doing. I just… I need some consistency. I need to know you won’t wake up tomorrow and feel a different way.”
Summer: “I can’t promise you that. Nobody can. Anyone who does is a liar.”
“We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering, we are being kind to...”
– Pema Chodron
“When you’re a little kid you’re a bit of everything; Scientist, Philosopher,...”
– The Wonder Years (via quote-book)
“I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your...”
– Frederick Perls (via quote-book)
Dorianne Laux - Antilamentation
Regret nothing. Not the cruel novels you read to the end just to find out who killed the cook. Not the insipid movies that made you cry in the dark, in spite of your intelligence, your sophistication. Not the lover you left quivering in a hotel parking lot, the one you beat to the punchline, the door, or the one who left you in your red dress and shoes, the ones that crimped your toes, don’t...
Marty McConnell - Survival poem #17
because this is what you do. get up. blame the liquor for the heaviness. call in late to work. go to the couch because the bed is too empty. watch people scream about love on Jerry Springer. count the ways it could be worse. it could be last week when the missing got so big you wrote him a letter and sent it. it could be yesterday, no work to go to, whole day looming. it could be last month or the...
“I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
Lydia Davis - Head, Heart
Heart weeps. Head tries to help heart. Head tells heart how it is, again: You will lose the ones you love. They will all go. But even the earth will go, someday. Heart feels better, then. But the words of head do not remain long in the ears of heart. Heart is so new to this. I want them back, says heart. Head is all heart has. Help, head. Help heart.
“I opened myself to you only to be skinned alive. The more vulnerable I became,...”
– Rabih Alameddine, I, the Divine.
January 2010
26 posts
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
– Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums) (via quote-book)
“The truth is hard. The truth is awkward and very often the truth hurts. I mean,...”
– Greys Anatomy (via quote-book)