January 2012
57 posts
“Dress suitably in short skirts and strong boots, leave your jewels in the bank,...”
– Countess Markievicz, 19th century Irish revolutionary
“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? …Well,...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden (via moscow)
“The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that...”
– Marcel Proust
“I mean, I have the feeling that something in my mind is poisoning everything...”
– Vladimir Nabokov
“We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing — an actor, a writer — I am a...”
– Stephen Fry (via randomitus)
“There comes a time when we realize that our parents cannot save themselves or...”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska
“Good fiction’s job is to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.”
– David Foster Wallace
“He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated...”
– Nicole Krauss
“Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they’re also what tear you...”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“How do you just stop being terrified of getting left behind and ending up by...”
– John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
“I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please,...”
– Sylvia Plath
“It’s sad when the people who gave you the best memories become a memory.”
– Kid Cudi
