June 2013
“I hope that someday, somebody wants to hold you for twenty minutes straight, and that’s all they do. They don’t pull away. They don’t look at your face. They don’t try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms, without an ounce of selfishness in it.”
—Jenna, Waitress (via quirky-fairy)
“The only darkness we should allow into our lives is the night, and even then, we have the moon.”
— Warsan Shire, from “What We Have,” in Poetry Review (v. 102, no. 4, 2012)
May 2013
“At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.”
—F.Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (1920)
“I keep thinking you already know. I keep thinking I’ve sent you letters that were only ever written in my mind.”
—Iain Thomas (via a-cious)
April 2013
“We can’t jump off bridges anymore because our iPhones will get ruined. We can’t take skinny dips in the ocean, because there’s no service on the beach and adventures aren’t real unless they’re on Instagram. Technology has doomed the spontaneity of adventure and we’re helping destroy it every time we Google, check-in, and hashtag.”
—Jeremy Glass, “We Can’t Get Lost Anymore” (via perfect)
“I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year.”
—Bette Davis (via mrgolightly)
“As I see it, you are living with something that you keep hidden deep inside. Something heavy. I felt it from the first time I met you. You have a strong gaze, as if you have made up your mind about something. To tell you the truth, I myself carry such things around inside. Heavy things. That is how I can see it in you.”
—Haruki Murakami (1Q84)
“There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.”
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The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo (via coffeeurlgirl)
So sweet, always savour the moments.
(via ne-uw)
“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.”
—Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013)
“‘If the girl had been worth having she’d have waited for you?’ No, sir, the girl really worth having won’t wait for anybody.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via littleblips)
March 2013
“I hated them because they had something I had not yet had, and I said to myself, I said to myself again, someday I will be as happy as any of you, you will see.”
—Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye. (via theburnthatkeepseverything)
“People will kill you over time, and how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like: ‘be realistic.’”
—Dylan Moran (via a-cious)
