January 2009
47 posts
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“You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million...”
– George Bernard Shaw (via snowblind)
December 2008
133 posts
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“That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world… happiness isn’t good...”
– Calvin and Hobbes (via littlemiss)
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“I suddenly saw it all so clearly. I’d sold both of us short — by taking...”
– Daniel Stern, The Wonder Years (via littlemiss)
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“Life would be so much easier if I didn’t give a shit, but I do.”
– Nick Hornby, SLAM (via frecklesmakemestrong)
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“I like that you ramble when you’re nervous. I like that I know that you...”
– James Van Der Beek, Dawson’s Creek
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“There’s no beauty without poignancy and there’s no poignancy without...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
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“Ok, so sometimes, even the best of us make rash decisions. Bad decisions....”
– T.R. Knight, Grey’s Anatomy
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“But every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very...”
– Herman Hesse, 1919. (via applebloggingjeans)
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“It is not only the blind who need a walking stick to probe one step ahead, or a...”
– Jose Saramago, Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (via thebronzemedal)
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“Ay amor, es una tortura—perderte.”
– trans: Oh love, it’s torture—losing you.
La Tortura by Shakira and Alejandro Sanz
(via lyricallysomething)
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“Stop talking about love. Every asshole in the world says he loves somebody. It...”
– Tom Wilkinson, The Last Kiss
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“There’s such a gulf between yourself and who you were then, but people...”
– Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
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“This is my report on the importance of knowing how to read. If you can’t read...”
– Charles Schulz, Peanuts
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“Nothing I did or said came to me naturally. As a result, in every encounter,...”
– Edmund White
MAGIC MOLLY: Anxiety: it shows that you care
(via thebronzemedal)
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“Her kiss was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.”
– Nicole Krauss, the History of Love. (via sooshi)
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“Chin up. Shoulders back. Walk proud. Strut a little. Don’t lick your wounds:...”
– James Pickens, Jr., Grey’s Anatomy (via littlemiss)
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“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via rainier)
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“You asked a question. I guess I’ll have to answer. Maybe it’s good and maybe...”
– John Steinbeck (via scout)
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“It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around...”
– Lemony Snicket
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“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have...”
– Joseph Heller, Catch-22 (via paperbackgirl)
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“All life is just a progression toward, and a regression from, one phrase—‘I love...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Offshore Pirate (via scout)
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“I’m looking for someone who will light candles,
not just curse the...”
– Joshua Harris (via scout)
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“Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn...”
– Umberto Eco (via bunkercomplex)
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“Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.”
– Franz Kafka
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“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are...”
– Katharine Hepburn
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“I was waiting for such a long time, she said. I thought you forgot. It’s...”
– Brian Andreas
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“A guy and a girl can be just friends but at one point or another, they will fall...”
– Dave Matthews
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“Don’t give up. Keep going. There is always a chance that you stumble onto...”
– Ann Landers (via onherway)
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“Your passion is waiting for your courage to catch up.”
– Marilyn Greist, career consultant (via applebloggingjeans)
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“Over the course of the average lifetime you meet a lot of people. Some of them...”
– Daniel Stern, The Wonder Years (via littlemiss)
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“Some things you don’t know you miss until, out of nowhere, you have them back,...”
– Jerry Stahl, Perv—A Love Story (via nightmarebrunette)
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“Travel dissolves you. It makes you need to rebuild yourself, forces you to...”
– Douglas Coupland, Eleanor Rigby (via nightmarebrunette)
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“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and...”
– Sylvia Plath (via misscedar)
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“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to...”
– Jack Kerouac
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“God…sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
“Most people have the fantasy of catching a train that whistles in the night.”
– Wille Nelson
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“But I’ve swallowed my pride before, that’s for sure. I’m...”
– Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
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“Fall in love with the process and the results will follow. You’ve got to want to...”
– Bradley Whitford (via scout)
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“You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful...”
– Julie Delpy , Before sunset (via aksamala)
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“it was nice to have yourself known by a man; it was getting to be known that was...”
– John Updike, The Witches of Eastwick (via paperbackgirl)
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“I’m interested in what people do with the chaos in their lives and how they...”
– Philip Roth (via paperbackgirl)
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“Stick your heart inside of my chest. Keep it warm here while we rest.”
– Tegan and Sara, I Know, I Know, I Know
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“There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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“Each of us starts out as a watertight vessel. And these things happen - these...”
– John Green, Paper Towns (via thebronzemedal)
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“What I most want is to spring out of this personality, then to sit apart from...”
– Rumi
“For a long time it seemed to me that real life was about to begin, but there was...”
– Bette Howland (via robot-heart)
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“Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.”
– Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes
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“Sadness is easier because its surrender. I say make time to dance alone with one...”
– Kirsten Dunst, Elizabethtown
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“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via psychotherapy)
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“I don’t just want to be a footnote in someone else’s happiness.”
– Fall Out Boy, Headfirst Slide into Cooperstown on a Bad Bet (via notthatkindagay)