August 2008
39 posts
2 tags
“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany,...”
– Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
“Some will make a moment feel like forever. But the people who really change your...”
– I Wrote This for You, The Difference in Scale (via unicornology)
2 tags
“In real life, every day you might come to a new conclusion about yourself and...”
– Elizabeth Wurtzel, Now, More, Again (via robot-heart)
3 tags
“So why do I get so lonely /
When there really ain’t nothing wrong /...”
– Joe Purdy, Why do I
2 tags
“Childhood is a strange country. It’s a place you come from or go to – at least...”
– Lyall Bush
1 tag
“Anger is contagious.”
– Sandra Cisneros
3 tags
“It’s hardest to love the ordinary things, she said, but you get lots of...”
– Brian Andreas
“Underneath it all, you longed to be annihilated by love…”
– Erica Jong, Fear of Flying
3 tags
“I would assign every lie a color: yellow when they were innocent, pale blue when...”
– Steve Martin, The Zig-Zag Woman
2 tags
“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still...”
– jerry seinfeld (via paperbackgirl)
2 tags
“You only meet your once in a lifetime friend… once in a lifetime”
– Kevin Jamal Woods, Little Rascals
3 tags
“There’s the people who you’ve known forever who, like, know you in...”
– Claire Danes, My So-Called Life
“Never mistake motion for action.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
2 tags
“Facts are the enemy of truth.”
– Don Quixote, Man of La Mancha
1 tag
“If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best...”
– George Bernard Shaw
2 tags
“By never knowing which road you’re choosing, to you the next best thing to...”
– Alison Krauss, Lucky one
1 tag
“It was a delicate, new strangeness, and I held on to it like a candle, hoping it...”
– Miranda July, “Ten True Things” (via lozzy)
2 tags
“Don’t be so humble - you are not that great.”
– Golda Meir
1 tag
“What did my fingers do before they held him?
What did my heart do, with its...”
– Sylvia Plath, Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices (via unicornology)
“In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as...”
– H. L. Mencken (via robot-heart)
1 tag
“Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation … even so...”
– Leonardo da Vinci
3 tags
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the...”
– Paulo Coelho
2 tags
“A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men.”
– Roald Dahl, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory (via enquotations)
“Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.”
– Dorothea Lange
2 tags
“The fact that you’re not answering leads me to believe that (a)...”
– Billy Crystal, When Harry Met Sally
“There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are...”
– Rebecca West (via robot-heart)
2 tags
“He said I was unequipped to meet life because I had no sense of humor.”
– J.D. Salinger, For Esmé with Love and Squalor
2 tags
“There’s a difference between giving up and letting go.”
– Sela Ward, Once and Again
3 tags
“[her] mind blackens. the blackness is not a thought, but if it could be pressed...”
– Steve Martin, Shopgirl: A Novella
“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.”
– Carl Sandburg (via affremblequotes)
3 tags
“Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are...”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via align)
3 tags
“I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you...”
– Langston Hughes
“Never forget me, because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.”
– A. A. Milne
4 tags
“I guess sometimes the ground can shift between your feet. Sometimes your footing...”
– Fred Savage, The Wonder Years
2 tags
“The bad thing about falling to pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it...”
– David James Duncan
4 tags
“You have five minutes to wallow in the delicious misery: enjoy it, embrace it,...”
– Kirsten Dunst, Elizabethtown
2 tags
“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does all the...”
– Mark Twain
“I been a long time leaving but I’m going to be a long time gone.”
– Willie Nelson 