May 2013
20 posts
“The music seemed to cut into his flesh, leaving a sort of scar of longing never...”
– Elizabeth Hardwick, Sleepless Nights (via awritersruminations)
“I didn’t know words could be so heavy.”
– Markus Zusak (via coffeemaps)
“At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club (via misantropie)
“We should have been excused
from lugging a body:
the burden of the self
was...”
– E.M. Cioran, from The Trouble With Being Born (via violentwavesofemotion)
“I’m alone
in a body that can’t
love me.”
– Margaret Gibson, from “The Waiting” (via hrsvt)
April 2013
31 posts
“If you’ve been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you -...”
– C.S. Lewis (via hellanne)
“Once you pass a certain age, life becomes nothing more than a process of...”
– 1Q84, Haruki Murakami. (via whatjdid)
“Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t...”
– Robert Brault (via creatingaquietmind)
“Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.”
– Arthur Schopenhauer (via tat-art)
“That is all I want in life: for my pain to seem purposeful.”
– Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel (via thechocolatebrigade)
“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the...”
– Brave New World by Aldous Huxley (via thechocolatebrigade)
“How fragile we are, between the few good moments.”
– Jane Hirshfield, “Vinegar and Oil” (via 4mbivalent)
“She had a nostalgia for a life she had never lived.”
– Nancy Lemann, The Fiery Pantheon (via 4mbivalent)
“How much of human life is lost in waiting.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via 4mbivalent)
