June 2010
4 posts
And so, I wait because you have already left and my work here, is done. I wait...
– via: i wrote this for you (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
Never, ever look in the rear view mirror, darling. It makes no difference what’s...
– The “My One and Only” trailer. (via quote-book)
May 2010
9 posts
Homesickness is just a state of mind for me. I’m always missing someone or...
– Elizabeth Wurtzel (via quotewhore)
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it;...
– W. Somerset Maugham, ‘Of Human Bondage’, 1915
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
– W. Somerset Maugham
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the...
– Nelson Mandela (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
loveyourchaos:
suzywire:
the rain is full of ghosts tonight.
I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
– D.H. Lawrence (via libraryland) (via quote-book)
But mostly, I cried because my life had been going full speed for so long and...
– Dreamland by Sarah Dessen (via poeticheartache)
April 2010
5 posts
You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between...
– Mary Hornbacher (via gatekeeper) (via maddieness)
To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used...
– Arundhati Roy (via thoughtsdetained) (via quote-book) (via lovebot)
Some things you’ll never know, and some things you’ll wish you never knew.
– Eric Williams (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face....
– Henry Miller (via colporteur) (via quote-book)
March 2010
4 posts
February 2010
17 posts
You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a...
– W. Somerset Maugham (via dangerouslyaddicting) (via ellagicacid) (via maddieness)
So I watch her burn and laugh.
maddieness:
I still and will always find it so inneffably amusing, when the things she call secrets are what she sets ablaze in neon lights.
And when the universe has finished exploding, all the stars will slow down, like...
– Mark Haddon (via quotewhore)
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering,...
– Anaïs Nin (via julie911) (via quote-book)
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
– W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer’s Notebook, 1949 (via quote-book)
And I’ve seen what you make for money and I’ve seen what you do for fame. I’ve...
– i wrote this for you (via fuckyeahhlove) (via maddieness)
Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that...
– G.K. Chesterton (via bnguyeeen) (via quote-book)
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
– Ernest Hemingway (via quote-book)
I dwell in possibility…
– Emily Dickinson (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
or what it’s worth, it’s never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever...
– Curious Case of Benjamin Button (via kari-shma) (via quote-book) (via thoughtsonasunday)
January 2010
28 posts
It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around...
– Lemony Snicket (via quote-book)
I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could...
– J.D. Salinger (via quote-book)
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through...
– Ellen Goodman (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
Today is your big moment. Moments, really. The life you’ve been waiting for is...
– Shauna Niequist (via thresca) (via quote-book)