May 2012
“Cautiously, I allowed
myself to feel good
at times.
I found moments of
peace...”
– Charles Bukowski, “Let It Enfold You” (via larmoyante)
“What is the meaning of life? That was all — a simple question; one that tended...”
– Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (via bookmania)
“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and...”
– Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (via vanished)
“I’ve never been lonely. I’ve been in a room — I’ve felt suicidal. I’ve been...”
– Charles Bukowski (via venebelle)
“I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
“From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing that...”
– Ian McEwan, Atonement (via larmoyante)
“Harry looked around; there was Ginny running toward him; she had a hard blazing...”
– J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (via owlieverwanted)
i hate how lazy i am, but im too lazy to do anything about it
“Every night before putting her to sleep, he counts her ribs, as if one might...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via floristries)
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“I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned (via larmoyante)
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““Do you fall in love often?”
Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog,...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries (via larmoyante)
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“I’m like everyone else in this stupid, bloody, amazing world. I’m flawed....”
– Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing (via larmoyante)
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“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love (via larmoyante)
Checking in
I’m having a wonderful time. We started with four or five days in New York, and then three in DC, and now I’m in the New Jersey/Philadelphia area.
Thank you all who have been tolerating my absence, and for those who haven’t, I suppose you won’t be reading this.
But I will be back in less than two weeks, so I can’t wait to see you then! (:
“My room felt as if it had become larger, for the air had turned cold and hollow....”
– Unfinished Stories (via romeoforgotjuliet)
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“…Because you may be smart, but I’ve been smart longer. I’m sure some of you do...”
– John Green (Looking for Alaska)
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“You feel empty. You dont quite know why. You feel a pit in your stomach, a...”
– desistere (via pasdedemain)
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“I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”
– Walt Whitman (via larmoyante)
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“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
– Christopher Morley, Pipefuls (via larmoyante)