January 2012
38 posts
“Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every...”
– Riccardo Tisci (via jacvanek)
“I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I’ve been. How comforting the...”
– Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (via simply-quotes)
““A love story can never be about full possession. The happy marriage, the...”
– ― Jeffrey Eugenides, My Mistress’s Sparrow Is Dead
“She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides
“Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t...”
– ― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
“Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality....”
– Virgin Suicides
“Play 7-up with them. A hungover teacher definitely came up with that game.”
– Andrea’s thoughts on how to make teaching not miserable for me today. (via the-littlesister)
the best <3
“But in any situation with long love, I don’t think it ever really goes away...”
– Justin Vernon (via theunquotables)
That Kind Of Woman: John Steinbeck on Falling in... →
thatkindofwoman:
New York November 10, 1958
Dear Thom:
We had your letter this morning. I will answer it from my point of view and of course Elaine will from hers.
First — if you are in love — that’s a good thing — that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don’t let anyone make it small or light…
“Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I’m just a girl who wishes for the...”
– Marilyn Monroe (via eletheowl)
“Home wasn’t a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people...”
– Sarah Dessen (via nuaira)
“Maybe one day you will understand
That I want nothing from you but to sweetly...”
– Regina Spektor
“You’re not like the others. I’ve seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at...”
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (via light-essence)
“No, we weren’t lovers, but in a way we had opened ourselves to each other even...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via decembrist)
“The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together...”
– Alain de Botton, On Love (via eastatlanta)
usemetofigureitallout:
“I will remember the kisses our lips raw with love and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me, and I will remember your small room the feel of you the light in the window your records your books our morning coffee our noons our nights our bodies spilled together sleeping the tiny flowing currents immediate and forever your leg my leg...
December 2011
62 posts
“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be “happy.” I think the purpose...”
– Leo C. Rosten (via katelizabeth)
“Why don’t you tell me that ‘if the girl had been worth having, she’d have waited...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via thecourtneybrunson)
“As time goes on, you’ll understand. What lasts, lasts; what doesn’t, doesn’t....”
– Haruki Murakami, Dance, Dance, Dance (via rerylikes)
“The tiniest of actions is always better than the boldest of intentions”
– The Secret Letters of The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma (via kari-shma)
dumblemort:
Damien Rice- Delicate
We might...
“I may sound old-fashioned, but I want to think all women should be treated like...”
– Frank Sinatra (via iwasborntired)
