May 2009
68 posts
“I remember the first time I realized I could make myself see something that...”
– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
try not to let the past get to you. try to let your guard down a little now. just try.
does anyone else break their own heart a little bit sometimes or is it just me?
“The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to...”
– Johnette Napolitano (via rynarrates) (via 52hearts) (via ursofuckinspecial) (via boxofrain)
remember when i didn’t know you? yeah, me either.
“The irony of love is loving the right person at the wrong time, having the wrong...”
– (via springzephyr) (via justlia) (via iamblessed)
so true. It makes me sad.
(via 3isagoodnumber) (via boysmakemegiggle)
(via hautelikecouture)
what if every time he says something that bothers me my mind goes back to you? you weren’t even that great. what is it about you that i can’t let go of? the way you let me go.
“Everyone gives up a little something in the process of pairing off, if only...”
– Carolyn Hax (via notemily)
“But oh, how infatuated the world at large seems to be with female failure! The...”
– Sady Doyle (via gauntlet) (via notemily) (via spareunderthemat)
illuminatedwallflower:
lovehopehate:
...
“She had learned not to be afraid of a man the way, in your childhood, you learn...”
– Lorrie Moore, “You’re Ugly, Too” (via meaghano)
“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
– Chuck Palahniuk
(via powtota)
ouch.
(via nicolaxiola)
“I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith,...”
– Sarah Dessen (via littlemiss) (via finallyseeing) (via lovebot)
“He reached around and pulled me down onto his back and I lay there, like on the...”
– Miranda July (via finallyseeing) (via lovebot)
“Don’t wait to be sure. Move, move, move.”
– Miranda July (via finallyseeing) (via poignant)
today when i was walking by myself downtown i didn’t know what to do with my hands. what did i do before? what did i used to do with them? i couldn’t remember. after 22 years of my hands being perpetually empty, i didn’t know.
how did this happen? please keep holding it.
“But everybody has exactly the same smiling frightened face, with the look that...”
– The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via omfgitstabitha) (via floflotangerine) (via casimirpulaskiday)
QuarterLife Crisis
missworld:
seriouslythough:
They can’t make any decisions, because they don’t know what they want, and they don’t know what they want because they don’t know who they are, and they don’t know who they are because they’re allowed to be anyone they want.
(elizablr:whileibreatheihope:via Josh)
“That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving...”
– Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You
if someone had told me when i first met you that i would enjoy kissing you as much as i just did i would have called them a dirty liar.
but there it is.
stop over thinking things
for the love of god
kafka on the shore.
Hoshino: Does the music bother you?
Kafka: No, it's fine. Music doesn't bother me. To me it's like the wind.
“All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via brightlywound) (via suzywire)
You're doing so many amazing things for me.
yourwrite:
I promise, one day, I’ll give you everything, too.
“There was a silence between them for a moment, and she wondered if all women,...”
– Daphne DuMaurier (via quotewhore) (via illuminatedwallflower)
Liz Feldman: Have you guys ever dated the same person?
Sara Quin: No
Tegan Quin: Yes
Sara: No.
Tegan: Yes, we did.
Sara: Oh, boys. but that doesn't count. It's like dating a unicorn.
