February 2009
95 posts
“I looked at other couples and wondered how they could be so calm about it. They...”
– Miranda July
January 2009
72 posts
“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset...”
– Bill Murray, Lost in Translation (via spaceships) (via alexewing)
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t...”
– Louise Erdrich (via everybodycares)
The Temper Trap - “Sweet Disposition”
Song from...
“Thus time draws forward each and everything
Little by little into the midst of...”
– Lucretius, Beginning of Civilization.
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom...”
– Anais Nin, my new favorite. (via caragh)
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“‘I love you,’ Buttercup said. ‘I know this must come as...”
– William Goldman (The Princess Bride)
“There is more faith and there is more truth on deserts, mountains, rivers, skies...”
– (via a brainless thinker)
“Some people need a red carpet rolled out in front of them in order to walk...”
– Miranda July
“We were excited about getting jobs; we hardly went anywhere without filling out...”
– Miranda July
everybodycares:
“I am of those who like to stay late at the cafe,” the older waiter said. “With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night.”
“An autobiography is only ‘a sort of life’ - it may contain less errors of fact...”
– Graham Greene, in the forward to his 1971 memoir A Sort of Life (via tylercoates)
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, “What are you doing for others?”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
ive just lost a best friend. . .
jaim:
finishing a book always brings about feelings of loss even in the wake of feeling accomplished. for only a brief moment ive been given permission to creep along in someones life and when it abruptly ends its as if memories once again surface of those break-ups that ended without ones consent. for at least a few days a ghost of sadness will loom over my body; perhaps the start of a new novel...
“Who can pretend that there’s a beginning without an end?”
– Red House Painters - “Smokey”
“Letting go doesn’t mean we don’t care. Letting go doesn’t mean we shut down....”
– Melody Beattie (via lovebot) (via regret) (via apologies) (via cakeface)
