January 2012
333 posts
2 tags
“She wants to know if I love her, that’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via decrepito)
December 2011
98 posts
2 tags
“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt (via decrepito)
3 tags
“I’m not anti-social. I’m just not social.”
– Woody Allen (via misswallflower)
“All the lives we could live, all the people we will never know, never will be,...”
– Aleksandar Hemon, The Lazarus Project (via ashesandink)
“He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated...”
– Nicole Krauss (via misswallflower)
“Of all the ways we have found to hurt ourselves, the worse has been through...”
– Paulo Coelho (via decrepito)
“Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick...”
– J.D. Salinger (via decrepito)
“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be...”
– C. S. Lewis (via larmoyante)
“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via saddest-summer)
“You were given life; it is your duty to find something beautiful within life, no...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert (via laceofpearls)
6 tags
“He’s a real nowhere man,
Sitting in his Nowhere Land,
Making all his...”
– The Beatles, “Nowhere Man”
7 tags
“She was a girl in a million, my friend
I should have known she would win in the...”
– The Beatles, “I’m a Loser”
“Some people think love is the end of the road, and if you’re lucky enough to...”
– Colum McCann (via decrepito)
“I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when...”
– Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (via pavorst)
“We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can’t have...”
– Nick Hornby (via obliviscentes)
“Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (via pavorst)
“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you...”
– Janet Fitch, White Oleander (via pavorst)
“I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of...”
– J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey (via indicio)
“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling...”
– Jack Kerouac (via misswallflower)
“If you want to fall in love, you can’t hold everything in. You have to open up,...”
– Jean M. Auel (via katyjean)
“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt (via alovet)
6 tags
“‘Why would you like someone who can’t like you back?’
The...”
– John Green and David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“If I can stop one heart from breaking
I shall not live in vain
If I can ease...”
– Emily Dickinson (via thresca)
5 tags
“I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that...”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska
6 tags
“Sounds of laughter, shades of life
Are ringing through my opened ears
Inciting...”
– John Lennon, Across the Universe
5 tags
“Some kind of solitude is measured out in you
You think you know me but you...”
– The Beatles, “Hey Bulldog”
4 tags
“I know I have nothing to give
so may as well give up and live”
– Laurena Segura, “Permafrost”
“Maybe that’s what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we...”
– Tom Perrotta (via quote-book)
“It’s a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up...”
– Madeleine L’Engle (via venula)
“I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what...”
– Alaska Young (via xtinaxtravagant)
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
– George Orwell, 1984 (via solipsism2)
“The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be...”
– George Bernard Shaw, The Devil’s Disciple (via imfantasyparade)
4 tags
“Anyway, as soon as I got my breath back I ran across Route 104. It was icy as...”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.”
– Emily Haines (via quote-book)
“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever...”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via decrepito)
“Life is funny sometimes, it can push pretty hard, but if you look close enough...”
– One Tree Hill (via julie911)
“Remember then that there is only one important time, and that time is now. The...”
– Leo the Turtle, The Three Questions by Jon Muth (via quote-book)