July 2012
2 posts
June 2012
39 posts
“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and...”
– Carson Mccullers (via skin-n-bones)
“I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very...”
– L.M. Montgomery (via spycnsweet)
“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
– Henry Ellis (via dailystendhalnitesaudade)
“From time to time it’s fun to close our eyes, and in that dark say to ourselves,...”
– The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
“You must have some vision for your life. Even if you don’t know the plan, you...”
– Oprah Winfrey
“I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers (via thatkindofwoman)
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your...”
– Kafka (via thatkindofwoman)
“That Day, the saucers landed. Hundreds of them, golden,
Silent, coming down...”
– Neil Gaiman, The Day the Saucers Came
“To create anything — whether a short story or a magazine profile or a film or a...”
– Tom Bissell, Magic Hours: Essays on Creators and Creations
“You might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can...”
– Bruce Lee (via rebeccasusanne)
“Death’s a funny thing. I used to think it was a big, sudden thing, like a huge...”
– Neil Gaiman (via selfinspiration)
“After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it’s burned to a...”
– Carl Sagan (via thenocturnals)
May 2012
75 posts
“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is...”
– John Burroughs
“Step out into the world of time and risk and loss again. Move forward, into the...”
– Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
“What is this called, what I am doing, to myself, to my life, this wallowing,...”
– Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
“There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each...”
– Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 (via girlinlondon)
“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I...”
– Émile Zola (via libraryland)
