February 2012
“I don’t think the world is the way we like to think it is. I don’t think it’s...”
– Charles de Lint (via rarararambles)
“It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same,...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via robins-nest)
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If the world moves for some people
and stops moving for others
I imagine the globe to be seething with warm
gooey colors
while a inch away
a mile away
a fingertip away
someone looks at wind with a cemented skull
and an axis that never dips into lightness or darkness,
only a space
a nothingness.
“We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the...”
– Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist (via larmoyante)
“This body, with all its capacities, seemed nothing — nothing at all. She had the...”
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway. (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
observando:
Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
-Zelda Fitzgerald
“There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street. There are...”
– ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (via fatherearth)
“See the whole thing is a world full of rucksack wanderers, Dharma Bums refusing...”
– Jack Kerouac, Dharma Bums (via bluecircus)
“When you took your oath of office, you placed your hand on the Bible and swore...”
– Jamie Raskin - who is now a senator in Maryland and served as floor manager of the recently passed bill allowing same sex marriage. (via abaldwin360)
BOOM.
(via tehblackbirdisincognito)
EFFING A, MAN. THIS. (via spastasmagoria)
“It’s good to be just plain happy, it’s a little better to know that you’re...”
– Henry Miller (via mendiante)
“I quizzed him a lot on this point and I suspect the truth was that it was like a...”
– Never Let Me Go (via untaintedtruths)
“Even the solitude, I’ve actually grown to quite like. That’s not to say I’m not...”
– Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (via passionate-sleeper)
“It frustrates and fascinates me that we’ll never know for sure, that despite the...”
– Isaac Marion (via vouth)
“‘Close! stand close to me, Starbuck; let me look into a human eye; it is better...”
– Moby-Dick, Herman Melville (via monocled—misanthrope)
tantum:
I want to release memory. Pull this torture away from its own handle
and watch its heft fall like a feather striking a body.
Rachel Eliza Griffiths, from “Perdre”
“We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live...”
– Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things (via matrem)
“I grew up watching your hands arrange space, so I find it very natural that when...”
– Dorothea Grossman (via beryl-azure)
: I don’t have many words and when I do have... →
growing-orbits:
I don’t have many words and when I do have words, when I find them, I do not claim them as my own. I don’t think they are wise or good, I just let them be. I don’t search for metaphors or highbrowed adjectives, I just think that life means so much more than that.
I share these pieces because…
“You have had many sadnesses, large ones, which passed. And you say that even...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, from Letters to a Young Poet, translated by S. Mitchell (via growing-orbits)
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“If you ever start taking things too seriously, just remember that we are talking...”
– Joe Rogan
“I hadn’t known that a light could be a feeling and a sound could be a color and...”
– Megan Miranda, Fracture (via compassio)
“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion...”
– Virginia Woolf (via justlikejericho)
“Maybe…you’ll fall in love with me all over again.”
“Hell,” I said, “I love you...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (via serialstranger)
“He went up to his room like a man who has been condemned to death. His mind was...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment (via conitor)
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Diary (via languagemagic)
“Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing...”
– Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
on life...oh, and writing
gravitywhale:
I write about whatever comes to mind in the spaces between worldly concerns, erections, coffee, kisses, lunches, waking, tangled limbs and blankets, staggering sideways laughing, sitting idle, staring at the sky, washing my arse in the shower and generally getting on with life as I hurtle headlong towards the same conclusion we all face. I write about this glorious dysfunctional...
“To deny our impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.”
– Mouse from ” The Matrix “ (via theangularperspective)
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Let it also be noted that James is terrible when it comes to conversing with others…
“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, ‘Why, why, why?’...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (Cat’s Cradle) (via callmeshea)
“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for...”
– Charles Bukowski (via 110192)
“I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work...”
– Clarissa Pinkola Estés (via larmoyante)
“No matter where I go I always end up me.”
– Dance Dance Dance (Haruki Murakami) (via kristineism)
“Anyone can slay a dragon… but try waking up every morning and loving the world...”
– Brian Andreas (via larmoyante)
“The act of tattooing one’s self was a transformative declaration of power, an...”
– Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol (via candlejack)