January 2012
5 posts
And you said, “this is the first day of my life. I’m glad I didn’t die before I met you. But now I don’t care, I could go anywhere with you and I’d probably be happy.”
December 2011
11 posts
Let your beauty manifest itself without talking and calculation. You are silent. It says for you : I am. And comes in meaning thousandfold, comes at long last over everyone.
- Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Images
“If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony: in a car on the way to the airport; or as a gray bedroom fills with dawn, one lover watching the other; or as two strangers stand together in the rain with no bus in sight, arms weighed down with shopping bags. You don’t know then. But later you realize—that was the moment. And always without words.”
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Simon Van...
“If you asked me to draw a picture of myself I’d draw two. One would be a portrait of a happy, self-confident, regular-looking woman and the other would be a close-up of a giant gaping mouth that’s ravenous for love. Many days I have to silently say to myself: It’s okay. You are loved. You are loved even if some people don’t love you. Even if some people hate you.”
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Dear Sugar, December 2011
“That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.”
— John Green
There is a sadness in me I don’t understand, and I want to be protected but instead I just become more and more of an introverted asshole who wants to run away.
October 2011
54 posts
“Unless it’s mad, passionate, extraordinary love, it’s a waste of your time. There are too many mediocre things in life. Love shouldn’t be one of them.”
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Dream for an Insomniac
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.”
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Victor Hugo
“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
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Virginia Woolf
“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.”
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Charles Bukowski
“I’m not fascinated by people who smile all the time. What I find interesting is the way people look when they are lost in thought, when their face becomes angry or serious, when they bite their lip, the way they glance, the way they look down when they walk, when they are alone and smoking a cigarette, when they smirk, the way they half smile, the way they try and hold back tears, the way when...
“I do not trust people who don’t love themselves and yet tell me, ‘I love you.’ There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.”
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Maya Angelou
“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don’t have strength.”
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Napoleon Bonaparte
“The pleasure most people our age get from going to a party, I get from sitting on the bus listening to my iPod.”
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Jack Steadman
“We have become a sloppy bunch of people. We say things we don’t mean. We make promises we don’t keep. “I’ll call you.” “Let’s get together.” We know we won’t. On the Human Interaction Stock Exchange, our words have lost almost all their value. And the spiral continues, as we now don’t even expect people to keep their word; in fact we might even be embarrassed to point out to the dirty liar that...
“I wonder why I don’t go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.”
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Sylvia Plath
“A sucky thing about relationships is having to explain everything. You feel like a little kid, or an invalid. I need food now. I’m going to the bathroom now. I need you to hold me now. Having to vocalize everything is good because it makes you more articulate, but bad because, in explaining, you have to simplify what you’re saying, boil any feeling down to its most easily understood, most...
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“And it’s not “clever lonely” (like Morrissey) or “interesting lonely” (like Radiohead), it’s “lonely, lonely” like the way it feels when you’re being hugged by someone and it somehow makes you sadder.”
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Chuck Klosterman
