July 2012
184 posts
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
– Maya Angelou (via hummingbirdinahurricane)
“Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then...”
– Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever (via larmoyante)
“There are some things you can’t understand yet. Your life will be a great and...”
– Dear Sugar (via creatingaquietmind)
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“It’s beautiful when you find someone that is in love with your mind. Someone that wants to undress your conscience and make love to your thoughts. Someone that wants to watch you slowly take down all the walls you’ve built up around your mind and let them inside.”
— (via chaoswithinus)
“Of everything I have seen,
it’s you I want to go on seeing:
Of everything I’ve...”
– Pablo Neruda (via larmoyante)
“I like you; your eyes are full of language.”
– Anne Sexton, from a letter to Anne Clarke dated 3 July 1964 (via frontrouge)
(Wow! What a compliment.)
“It’s in the morning, for most of us. It’s that time, those few seconds when...”
– Jerry Spinelli, Stargirl (via larmoyante)
“We hold hands as we walk through town. If anybody notices, nobody cares. I know...”
– David Levithan, Boy Meets Boy (via larmoyante)
“I didn’t want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via rainydaysandblankets)
“I want to see all the parts of you, even the ones you are ashamed of.”
– Louis (via anditslove)
“When I see you, the World stops. It stops and all that exists for me is you and...”
– James Frey, A Million Little Pieces (via larmoyante)
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“What, what am I to do with all of this life?”
– Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha: A Novel (via larmoyante)
“Even though it was an incredibly sad day, she looked so, so beautiful. I kept...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via larmoyante)
“I can’t remember that date or what you wore or what the weather was like on the...”
– Dean Walley (via pythons)
“If a woman writes about herself, she’s a narcissist. If a man does the same,...”
– Emily Gould (via eriksatie, meredithbklyn) (via ronenreblogs) (via litmissdreamer)
“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
– Charles Bukowski (via kateoplis)
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not...”
– Elie Wiesel (via larmoyante)
“Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect...”
– The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (via lostinthesounds)
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I am so thankful that I’ve always kept some sort of journal. Reading back to 2007 makes for such a foolish night.
I actually really love tonight. I’m spending it by myself, which I’m enjoying and I’ve just watched the movie “Like Crazy”. It’s sort of a romantic, indie type film, and I truly enjoyed it. Then, after the movie ended I decided to pull out a...
“Sometimes it’s a sort of indulgence to think the worst of ourselves. We say,...”
– Daphne du Maurier (via larmoyante)
“I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long,...”
– Elizabeth GIlbert, Eat, Pray, Love (via larmoyante)
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“Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.”
– Emma Donoghue (via romanceplanet)
“At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it’s over...”
– John Green (whiteoleanderlove)
“Women invented all the core technologies that made civilization possible. This...”
– from a post by Reclusive Leftist on women’s erasure in history.
her comments relate specifically to an article by the NYT thanking “the men” who invented modern technology, but pick absolutely any academic field of study, and women’s contributions are minimized, if not outright ignored.
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“It’s not that I don’t like people. It’s just that when I’m in the company of...”
– Maureen Corrigan, Leave Me Alone, I’m Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books (via larmoyante)
“The only dream worth having is to dream that you will live while you are alive,...”
– Arundhati Roy (via larmoyante)
“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”
– Josephine Hart (via loveyourchaos)
“By the time she began studying laser physics at Stanford, women had already...”
– Sally Ride, Trailblazing Astronaut, Dies at 61 (via casterly)
“She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our...”
– Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma)
“I’ve always found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and...”
– Jennifer L. Armentrout, Obsidian (via larmoyante)
“He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day....”
– The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie (via lostinthesounds) 