December 2011
140 posts
“Pouring out liquor is like burning books.”
– William Faulkner. Happy Friday! (via doubledaybooks)
“There is always the way out. There is light somewhere”
– Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
abstractescape:
Every man’s memory is his private literature. ~Aldous Huxley
“Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to...”
– Sigmund Freud (via saddest-summer)
“For the past few years, the number of nonwhites in newsrooms has steadily and...”
– Where Did Black Journalists Go? (via tballardbrown)
“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (via indicio)
“I knew this: there was only one of him in the world. One hour with him was...”
– Augusten Burroughs (via vapidheart)
“…one of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care...”
– Douglas Coupland (via nordababy)
“In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.”
– Janos Arany (via pavorst)
“Her eyes were the color of faraway love.”
– Pablo Neruda, The Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks (via fleurishes)
if i had to listen to the same music for the rest...
in no particular order
miseducation of lauryn hill - lauryn hill
tha carter 1 - lil wayne
college dropout - kanye
watch the throne - ye and jay
futuresex/lovesound - justin timberlake
confessions - usher
and some other randoms. but those are just the WHOLE albums i’d listen to. actually, there are probably more. i’ll think about it.
“It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.”
– Emily Haines (via alexismarie)
“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone...”
– Oscar Wilde (via hookahsmoke)
“Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire…. Pain arrives,...”
– Charles Bukowski (via mydearestholmes)
“The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come...”
– Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (via pavorst)
perhaps the sweetest thing i have ever read:
ahuntersheart:
”And, Amory, we’re beautiful, I know. I’m sure God loves us-“ ”He loves you. You’re his most precious possession.” ”Im not his, I’m yours. Amory, I belong to you. For the first time I regret all the other kisses; now I know how much a kiss can mean” -F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
“It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some...”
– Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels (via pavorst)
“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via slekes)
“Somewhere someone is thinking of you. Someone is calling you an angel. This...”
– Henry Rollins (via slekes)
“The Symbol of all Art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is...”
– EE Cummings (via cleverabbit)
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of...”
– C.G. Jung (via misswallflower) 