March 2012
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February 2012
164 posts
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“It soared, a bird, it held its flight, a swift pure cry, soar silver orb it...”
– Ulysses, James Joyce
“Most of the dandelions had changed from suns into moons.”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via lavandula)
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“I am like a winged creature who is too rarely allowed to use its wings....”
– Anaïs Nin, Aphrodisiac (via vashti)
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“The human heart is a strange vessel. Love and hatred can exist side by side.”
– Scott Westerfeld
“But the moment you start thinking of yourself alone, absolutely alone, and...”
– Nick Joaquin, The Woman Who Had Two Navels (via bookmania)
sailing birds →
lungsattachedbywires:
“When I went to Prague I fell in love. Early mornings, and a breakfast of strawberry jam in china pots, and drinks of apple juice until we almost felt drunk with sweetness. The first morning we took the tram in the wrong direction (three english girls taking a chance) and we saw climbing cobbles of dust and weightless hearts wandering through a street of fading lungs. When...
knockturn:
I feel like I’m a different species from everyone else. Like everyone is made of skin and bones while I’m made of paper.
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“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very...”
– Virginia Woolf
suggestions for lovely songs?
Have any of you guys heard any great songs recently? Preferably acoustic, soft, torturously beautiful ones? If you know of any, please recommend some!
:)
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“My heart was too big for my body so I let it go and most days this world has...”
– Anis Mojgani
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“Here
I’m here-
the snow falling.”
– Kobayashi Issa
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“Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How...”
– Arnold Lobel
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via bookmania)
“I’m very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There’s...”
– Michael Gambon (via rabbitinthemoon)
“He always thought of the sea as la mar, which is what people call her in spanish...”
– Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, 1952 (via clavicola)
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“I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
– Sarah Williams
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nowhere-land
I wonder what life would be like at the edge of the Universe. Of course, there is no edge you say. It could stretch on indefinitely, surpassing perhaps time and everything that comes with it. But if you stood, on that defining edge between nothing and everything what would you feel? You’re faced with either confronting the entire world, and listening to its moans and grievance, or tumbling...
“Real dreamers dream with their eyes open.”
– Austin Nichols (via littlerosarie)
“Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to...”
– Alberto Manguel (via xenium)
“I somehow always felt less lonely when I was completely alone.”
– Portia de Rossi, Unbearable Lightness (via selfinspiration)
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“Even if I now saw you
Only once,
I would long for you
Through worlds,...”
– Izumi Shikibu (via fleurishes)
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“In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath 1950-1962 (via bookmania)
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“I am drowning in my dream; I do not exist in reality.”
– Mako (via thesetelevisionblues)