January 2012
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December 2011
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Everybody is nothing until you love them.
– Tennessee Williams (via misswallflower)
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making...
– http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/12/my-new-year-wish.html
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The truth of a myth…is not in its words but its patterns.
– David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
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Which doesn’t mean, of course, that I’d stopped loving her, that...
– Milan Kundera, The Joke
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Sometimes I turn around and catch the smell of you and I cannot go on I cannot...
– Sarah Kane, 4.48 Psychosis
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Tell me we’ll glance out the side-view metaphors
before we lift off, cast up...
– Buddy Wakefield “When the train came” (via suspended-inasunbeam)
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when tonight you couldn’t make the phone ring
when you used to make the...
– Daphne Gottlieb, I KNEW IT WAS OVER
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Please understand. I’ve never been able to tell what’s worth more—what I want or...
– Stephen Dunn, Please Understand (A Bachelor’s Valentine)
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History admits no rules; only outcomes.
– David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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And here is the power she had from the start and her share in the lives of men...
– Hesiod, writing about Aphrodite, goddess of love, in the Theogony (via malevichsquare)
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You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.
– Tina Fey (via mirandaplease)
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The body remembers the wound
despite the tightly threaded stitches;
the arm...
– Lauren Kizi-Ann Alleyne, On the Illusion of Closure
Today I found a scrap of paper
where you’d scrawled your name.
I hate the...
– Charles Jensen, excerpt from Debts (via holdonmagnolia)
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Love me like a wrong turn on a bad road late at night.
– Kim Addonizio
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When you reach my age, you realize you couldn’t have done things very much...
– Jorge Luis Borges
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There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.
– Raymond Chandler, Long Goodbye
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Some fall in love.
I shatter.
– Stephin Merritt (via aheartwhoseloveisinnocent)
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Eventually we’ll be young again. One day we’ll only barely know each...
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Joe
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Fuck yr heroes, I’m saving myself.
– Daphne Gottlieb, Final Girl
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Here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever...
– Haruki Murakami (via atonals)
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Lie still now
while I prepare for my future,
certain hard days ahead,
when...
– Li-Young Lee, This Room and Everything in It (via grammatolatry)
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There is nothing
going on. I took nothing
you wanted. You can’t
have it...
– Daphne Gottlieb, Final Girl
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