February 2012
70 posts
“Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then...”
– Karen Marie Moning (via anditslove)
Henry Miller's Writing Commandments →
libraryland:
youmightfindyourself:
Work on one thing at a time until finished.
Start no more new books, add no more new material to “Black Spring.”
Don’t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.
Work according to Program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time!
When you can’t create you can work.
Cement a little every day, rather than add new...
“Avoid hurting the hearts of others, the poison of your pain will return to you.”
– Native American Code of Ethics (via observedintoexistence)
“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: A boy who loves you.”
– Markus Zusak, The Book Thief (via papercrushed)
“I loved you grammatically correct.”
– Simona Catrina (via lastchatwithphontaine)
Me when I go out: I should've stayed home
Me when I stay home: I should've gone out
Me when i'm around people: i want to be alone
Me when i'm alone: I want to be around people.
“If God exists, I hope he has a good excuse.”
– Woody Allen (via floralnymph)
“You are a souvenir shop, where he goes
to remember how much people miss him...”
– from Unrequited Love Poem, Sierra DeMulder (via floralnymph)
“If you blur your eyes, the streetlights become hundreds of ghosts going home.”
– I Wrote This For You, The Sweet Release (via shesinacoma)
“‘Just the whole of our lives, stretching ahead of us,’ she said sleepily, taking...”
– One Day, by David Nicholls (via floralnymph)
“My body is a dead language and you pronounce each word perfectly.”
– Sierra DeMulder, Unrequited Love Poem (via wastedtimewithyou)
It’s Not a Fairytale: Seattle to Build Nation’s... →
Seattle’s vision of an urban food oasis is going forward. A seven-acre plot of land in the city’s Beacon Hill neighborhood will be planted with hundreds of different kinds of edibles: walnut and chestnut trees; blueberry and raspberry bushes; fruit trees, including apples and pears; exotics like pineapple, yuzu citrus, guava, persimmons, honeyberries, and lingonberries; herbs; and more. All...
“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you...”
– Charles Bukowski (via princess-steppenwolf)
“Sometimes I touch the things you used to touch, looking for echoes of your...”
– I Wrote This For You (via anditslove)
“To think of gratitude and to think of thank you cards
instead, the small panic...”
– Gratitude, Leigh Stein (via floralnymph)
“When my body had forgotten its purpose,
when it just hung off my brainstem like...”
– December, Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz (via floralnymph)
“Why did he write to her,
“I can’t live without you”?
And why did she write to...”
– Carl Sandburg (via floralnymph)
“If anyone asks you
how the perfect satisfaction
of all our sexual wanting...”
– Like This, Rumi (via floralnymph)
“It was your idea
to park and watch the elephants
swaying among the trees
like...”
– The Two Times I Loved You Most In A Car, Dorothea Grossman (via floralnymph)
“There are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among...”
– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love (via -bookworm)
“The kinder ones fucked better, really, and after you were around them awhile...”
– Women, Charles Bukowski (via doubleplusungood)
“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives,...”
– Paulo Coelho (via observedintoexistence)