June 2012
4 posts
“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, ‘Where have I gone wrong?’ Then a...”
– Charles M. Shulz (via girlwithoutwings)
“I think it’s good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an...”
– Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence
“But in the end it wasn’t up to me. The big things never are. Birth, I mean, and...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex (via helplesslyamazed)
May 2012
120 posts
“For what is more delightful than leisure devoted to literature? That literature...”
– Cicero (via wwnorton)
“I can’t write without a reader. It’s precisely like a kiss—you can’t do it...”
– John Cheever
“So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering...”
– Nicole Krauss, The History Of Love (via incisio)
“It’s not as if I don’t have anything to read; there’s a tower of perfectly good...”
– Lewis Buzbee, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop (via prettybooks)
1 tag
“Everyone in the room was so spectral-looking that Madeleine’s natural...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot
“In all this welter of women I still hadn’t got one for myself, not that I was...”
– Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums (via rational-nomad)
“That’s what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.”
– 1Q84 haruki murakami (via creativecloud)
1 tag
“You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.”
– Isadora Duncan
“The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being...”
– Vladimir Nabokov
the phrase upon which my blog name is based. it describes the reason i write. because despite my limited skills, the words often give me no other choice.
(via blankpagesandinvisibleink)
“The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those...”
– Ulysses S. Grant (via quote-book)
“There was never any good old days
They are today, they are tomorrow
It’s...”
– Gogol Bordello, Ultimate
“If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you...”
– Lewis Buzbee, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop (via prettybooks)
2 tags
“All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.”
– Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam (via victoriousvocabulary)
“People would never fall in love if they hadn’t heard love talked about.”
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
– Franz Kafka (via blua)
Tom Hiddleston reading Shakespeare Sonnet 130
My...
2 tags
“My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
“Like the way the sun is right now, with the long shadows, and that kind of...”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska (via bookmania)
“[A]rrest is not the inevitable consequence of law-breaking; this is most acutely...”
– Nirej S. Sikhon, Redistributive Policing, 101 J. Crim. L. & Criminology 1171, 1212 (2011). (via letterstomycountry)
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“Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could...”
– Tina Fey, Bossypants
“We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely...”
– Milan Kundera, Laughable Loves (via pavorst)
“She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so...”
– Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding (via fissionaccomplished)
“The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for...”
– Peter Shaffer, Fiver Finger Excercise: A Play
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?”
– Ernest Hemingway (via kil0joules)
“Life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.”
– John Green (via loveyourchaos)
“Happiness consists in getting enough sleep. Just that, nothing more.”
– Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
– Ayn Rand (via lionskeleton)
“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in...”
– P.G. Wodehouse (via larmoyante)
“The only normal people are the one’s you don’t know very well.”
– Alfred Adler
“I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t...”
– Henry Rollins (via isetthingsonfire)
“We look at each other; see that we do not know each other, stare, and go off....”
– Virginia Woolf,The Waves. (via violentwavesofemotion)
1 tag
“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have...”
– Joseph Heller
“The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.”
– Marcus Aurelius (via heymikewaskom)
“All I can do is hope for the best, even though hoping for the best, like trying...”
– Lemony Snicket - The Beatrice Letters. (via admiralzacpower)
1 tag
“Another thing is no matter how much you think you love somebody, you’ll step...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters