November 2011
1 post
Maybe
Maybe I will use you again.
December 2010
4 posts
November 2010
18 posts
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
– Henry David Thoreau (via bookshelves) (via teachingliteracy)
The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and...
– Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Ernest)
My style is community-college librarian.
– Zach Galifianakis (via whereisthecoool)
October 2010
25 posts
oceanofmind:
The whole blear world of smoke and twisted steel around my head in a railroad car, and my mind wandering past the rust into futurity: I saw the sun go down in a carnal and primeval world, leaving darkness to cover my railroad train because the other side of the world was waiting for dawn.
— Allen Ginsberg
I love this. So perfect.
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
– Lawrence Durrell (via grace-notes)
Loving someone who doesn’t love you back is hell! Don’t ever let anyone convince...
– Patrick Seaton, Once and Always by Judith McNaught (via mariatheclownhaturrr)
Fall in love or fall in hate. Get inspired or be depressed. Act a test or flunk...
– Solbeam (via wildfoxbabes) (via alwaystraveling, wildfoxbabes-deactivated2009091)
I don’t burn bridges. I don’t burn bridges. I don’t burn bridges. I don’t burn bridges. I don’t burn bridges. I don’t burn bridges. I don’t burn bridges. I don’t burn bridges. But fuck, if I didn’t want to this evening.
Just overheard at the coffee shop “there is nothing in this world I hate more than soy”
I used to be funny and fun, but I am not anymore. I can’t even figure out why, or what happened. But I will not let it continue.
And we will be brief with all you motherfuckers…I think you know.
– Snoop (The Wire)
Internal struggle and pain is always greater than bodily pain. Today is proof of it.
A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.
– Marilyn Monroe (via janettt) (via quote-book)
In the end
these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you...
– Siddhārtha Gautama (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
Reading good books is like having a conversation with the most distinguished men...
– René Descartes, Discourse on the Method, Part 1 (via quote-book)
I was in a casino, minding my own business, and this guy came up to me and said,...
– Mitch Hedberg (via ronniebruce)
Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest...
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.
– This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
I want morning and noon and nightfall with you. I want your tears, your smiles,...
– Again the Magic, Lisa Kleypas (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour...
– The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest...
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to...
– Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert A. Heinlein (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
September 2010
15 posts
I tried to laugh about it, hiding the tears in my eyes cause boys don’t...
– The Cure
I love you like the stars above; I’ll love you till I die.
– Dire Straits.