February 2012
18 posts
“If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if...”
– Pythagoras (via heartmindspirit)
“Your name is as common as you are rare. As easy as you are not. As simple as...”
– walk, esplanade, singapore (via restrictedinfinity)
“It is interesting to imagine what our vision of the world would be like had...”
– Doris Lessing, from The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English foreword (via bookoasis)
“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and...”
– Carson McCullers (via rainysolitude)
Under One Small Star
My apologies to chance for calling it necessity. My apologies to necessity if I’m mistaken, after all. Please, don’t be angry, happiness, that I take you as my due. May my dead be patient with the way my memories fade. My apologies to time for all the world I overlook each second. My apologies to past loves for thinking that the latest is the first. Forgive me, distant wars, for...
“Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical,...”
– Alan Moore (via julie911)
Oh Great One: What happens if you fall in love... →
karenfelloutofbedagain:
Lots of things might happen. That’s the thing about writers. They’re unpredictable. They might bring you eggs in bed for breakfast, or they might all but ignore you for days. They might bring you eggs in bed at three in the morning. Or they might wake you up for sex…
January 2012
101 posts
“i’m sorry for my inability to let the unimportant things go, for my inability to...”
– johnathan safran foer (via yunzi)
“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and...”
– Leo Tolstoy, Family Happiness (via illude)
“Someday, somewhere — anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and...”
– Pablo Neruda
“I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow...”
– Pablo Neruda (via 35bit)
