September 2011
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“There’s some people in this world who you can just love and love and love no...”
– John Green (An Abundance of Katherines)
August 2011
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“My feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping
but I shall go on living.”
– Pablo Neruda (via myquotelibrary)
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“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of...”
– Carlos Castaneda (via myquotelibrary)
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“I want to say somewhere: I’ve tried to be forgiving. And yet. There were times...”
– Nicole Krauss (The History of Love)
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“Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may...”
– Helen Keller (via myquotelibrary)
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“Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted...”
– David Foster Wallace (via myquotelibrary)
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“All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn...”
– Neil Gaiman (American Gods)
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“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live...”
– James Baldwin (via kari-shma)
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“So come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned. Just think of...”
– JM Barrie (Peter Pan)
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“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able...”
– Simone de Beauvoir (via myquotelibrary)
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“[Life]It is what you make it. If you think you can’t change the world, then go...”
– Simone Elkeles (Perfect Chemistry)
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“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and...”
– Andy Warhol (via myquotelibrary)
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“Those who hurt others will also hurt themselves.”
– Natsuki Takaya (via myquotelibrary)
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“A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge.”
– George R. R. Martin (via the-exchange)
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“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.”
– George MacDonald (via myquotelibrary)
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“We’re all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take...”
– Libba Bray (via quercetum)
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“Femmephobia can also be seen in marketing. We have diet soda, and we have diet...”
– On Femmephobia | No, Seriously, What About Teh Menz? (via fuckyeahfeminists)
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“It’s pathetic how we can’t live with the things we can’t understand. How we need...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (Asfixia)
“To imagine is to put myself into that story until there is a transparency...”
– Amy Tan, Novelist. (via writteninmyownwords)
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“[As a child] I lived for books, and was sustained by literary characters with...”
– J.K. Rowling (via yerawizardharry) (via katerspie)
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“My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But...”
– CS Lewis (Mere Christianity)
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“I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved...”
– Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife)
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“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the...”
– Aldous Huxley (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
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“For no conscious reason, I lifted my eyes to those of my beastly companion in...”
– Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
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“Everyone else seemed to be able to pass it off with a cynical grin that said,...”
– Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
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“Our life’s a stage, a comedy: either learn to play and take it lightly, or bear...”
– Palladas (via inspiredbylit)
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“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow”
– Alice Walker (via inspiredbylit)
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“This is my letter to the world
That never wrote to me.”
– Emily Dickinson (via myquotelibrary)
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“Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with...”
– Saul Bellow, Ravelstein (via llibre)
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“A boy told me
if he roller-skated fast enough
his loneliness couldn’t catch up...”
– Naomi Shihab Nye, “The Rider” (via bookoasis)
“When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to...”
– Tom Brown’s Schooldays (chapter ii)
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“You cannot work too hard at poetry. People are bad at it not because they have...”
– Stephen Fry (via marxisforbros)
“How I hate ignorance! Caliban’s ignorance, my ignorance, the world’s ignorance!...”
– John Fowles, The Collector (via distantheartbeats)
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“Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear;...”
– EE Cummings (via myquotelibrary)
“I’m not a bit changed— not really. I’m only just pruned down and branched out....”
– L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (via ohlydiane)
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“When a child first catches adults out — when it first walks into his grave...”
– John Steinbeck (East of Eden)
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“Well, it seems to me that the best relationships - the ones that last - are...”
– Gillian Anderson (via myquotelibrary)
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*Unexplained Absences and Shadowy Friends: to Jane... →
misterchu:
henrycharlesbukowski:
I will not find you on the street nor will the phone ring, and each moment will not let me be in peace. it is not enough that there are many deaths and that this is not the first;
it is not enough that I may live many more days, even perhaps, more years. it is not…
For those who see Bukowski as a two-dimensional creature or caricature see this instead. A...
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“I write to give my life a form, a narrative, a chronology; and, for good...”
– André Aciman (via cinderellainrubbershoes)
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“When small drops began to fall and darken the world in penny-shaped circles, no...”
– Simon Van Booy, The Secret Lives of People in Love (via bookoasis) 