February 2012
13 posts
A ship in a harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
– William Shedd (via dailystendhalnitesaudade)
Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on...
– Joseph Campbell (via dailystendhalnitesaudade)
I fear I will always have to chase things I want. I’ll always have to wonder...
– Libbra Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty (via morganoel)
I always feel like I’m struggling to become someone else. Like I’m trying to...
– Haruki Murakami (via dailystendhalnitesaudade)
We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and...
– Carson McCullers (via youngfolksociety)
We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane....
– Chuck Palahniuk (via tittysandpancakes)
January 2012
105 posts
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t...
– Gilda Radner (via selfinspiration)
‘Do you fall in love often?’ Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a...
– Jeanette Winterson (via modernhepburn)
One night they fell asleep, side by side. He slept curled upon her back; a dark...
– A.S. Byatt, Possession (via frenchtwist)
I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via dailystendhalnitesaudade)
Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.
– Paulo Coelho (via elige)
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to...
– Winston Churchill (via julie911)
I believe in love and lust and sex and romance. I don’t want everything to add...
– The Mirror Has Two Faces (via quotewhore) (via dailystendhalnitesaudade)
I don’t miss him anymore. Most of the time, anyway. I want to. I wish I could...
– Charles Yu (How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe)
She glared at him, feeling the old frustration. Sometimes in his presence she...
– Ann Brashares (via thejuliadiaries)