January 2012
I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone...
– Oscar Wilde (via woodlace)
Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is...
– Edgar Allan Poe (via wearebarebones)
December 2011
I don’t know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned...
– Maya Angelou (via thechocolatebrigade)
When you look up at the sky at night, since I’ll be living on one of them, since...
– The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry (via thechocolatebrigade)
Every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters.
– Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (via thechocolatebrigade)
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Time weighs down on you like an old, ambiguous dream. You keep on moving, trying...
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via rabbitinthemoon)
Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the empty...
– Haruki Murakami (via vilude)
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...
– Neil Gaiman (via boxofoctaves)
I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I...
– Mark Twain (via alovet)
I used to think my life was boring... until I...
No matter where you go or what you do, you live your entire life within the...
– Terry Josephson (via vashti)
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The wind keeps rattling the railings on our front stoop and I keep thinking someone’s about to walk into the house, or maybe there’s a zombie out there climbing up the stairs, only perhaps it fell up the stairs and it can’t get up (it needs one of those Lifealert buttons, then), so it’s just grabbing the railing and trying to get up and not getting up because the wind keeps...
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The problem with the world, I think, and the problem, especially, with meals, is that people are always trying to talk to you while you’re eating. When I eat, I want to eat, and not stop until I’m done, but everyone else seems to be under the impression that food in another person’s mouth is permission to talk.
Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream.
– Jack Kerouac, The Lonesome Traveler (via bookmania)
Monsters are real. And ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes...
– Stephen King (via alaska-y-o-u-n-g)
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Um, thank you. I’m not much for public speaking. Or much for speaking. Or, come...
– Daria’s graduation speech in Is It College Yet? (via darias-sick-sad-world
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My Christmas was book-owl-and-nerf-gun-themed. I’d say I was overjoyed, but I’m not sure that “overjoyed” accurately measures my excitement.
sharkbateooh-ha-ha asked: Excuse me while I go on a bit of a reblog/like craze on your blog. That is all.
Whenever you think or you believe or you know, you’re a lot of other people: but...
– E.E. Cummings (via talkativolive)