January 2011
163 posts
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This Year’s Love - David Gray
Heaven knows...
December 2010
215 posts
“Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was...”
– Brooks Atkinson
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“Then she says, ‘I love you.’ Like three drops of blood falling onto snow.”
– Jenny Downham, Before I Die | submitted by: http://mysoul-myheart.tumblr.com/ (via quote-book)
“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul,...”
– Sylvia Plath (via thechocolatebrigade)
“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast....”
– Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
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There’s this song I used to love about a man in love with two women. And I would sit there and hear his words and think of how sad it must be. To be the woman hearing these words. To be the woman unaware. To be the man who just didn’t know what to do. I’ve never been able to fully grasp the idea of loving two people at once. When I love, it’s so overwhelming, I just think...
“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast....”
– Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
“Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of...”
– Hanif Kureishi
“It was like discovering that some part of you wasn’t yours at all. And it...”
– Lock and Key - Sarah Dessen
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.”
– Persuasion - Jane Austen
“And she finds it difficult to believe—that a person would love her even when she...”
– The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope.”
– Persuasion - Jane Austen
“Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of...”
– Hanif Kureishi
“And she finds it difficult to believe—that a person would love her even when she...”
– The Robber Bride - Margaret Atwood
“For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most...”
– The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke - Rainer Maria Rilke
100 Best Last Lines from Novels
Let’s see if any of these which I have not yet read will catch my eye.
“We all carry around so much pain in our hearts. Love and pain and beauty. They...”
– Henry Bromel (via quote-book)
athousandbutterflies replied to your post: Shit just got a whole lot more complicated up in…
I love your tumblr, and I’m very curious..!
Haha, well, thank you. And I’ve written a post about it… I just haven’t worked up the nerve to publish it just yet.
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man of two minds
There’s this song I used to love about a man in love with two women. And I would sit there and hear his words and think of how sad it must be. To be the woman hearing these words. To be the woman unaware. To be the man who just didn’t know what to do. I’ve never been able to fully grasp the idea of loving two people at once. When I love, it’s so overwhelming, I just think...
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Shit just got a whole lot more complicated up in here. 2010 had one last surprise for me, it seems. Funny what can happen in a day. In an hour. In a second.
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable,...”
– Agatha Christie (via 472239364)
“Let’s face it: I’m scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess...”
– The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962
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“Let’s face it: I’m scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess...”
– The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962
“I am going to give you a piece of advice… advice I wish I’d been...”
– Shampoo Planet - Douglas Coupland
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Is everyone shy like me? Hello, anons :)
“I am so utterly lonely, but I also have such a fear that my isolation be broken...”
– Anaïs Nin
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Sonnet XLIII
by Edna St. Vincent Millay What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning, but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh Upon the glass and listen for reply, And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain For unremembered lads that not again Will turn to me at midnight with a cry.
Thus in the winter stands the...
Anonymous asked: What is it that you do?
Anonymous asked: just wondering, how old are you?
“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem...”
– Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury
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Sonnet XLIII
by Edna St. Vincent Millay What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning, but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh Upon the glass and listen for reply, And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain For unremembered lads that not again Will turn to me at midnight with a cry.
Thus in the winter stands the...
“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely...”
– A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith
“All great and precious things are lonely.”
– East of Eden - John Steinbeck
“I am so utterly lonely, but I also have such a fear that my isolation be broken...”
– Anaïs Nin
“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem...”
– Dandelion Wine - Ray Bradbury
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“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that...”
– Lorraine Hansberry (via itookadeepbreath)
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember...”
– Diary - Chuck Palahniuk
“He was my escape, and sometimes that can feel an awful lot like love.”
– Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed (via itookadeepbreath)
