August 2010
“I won’t make the move
you must make the move
if you make the move
I...”
– jaymay, gray or blue
“To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold...”
– Kenko Yoshida (via devilduck) (via crashinglybeautiful) (via 108zenbooks) (via toynbeeconvector)
“I was kidnapped by literature at a young age and never wanted to be ransomed.”
– Margaret Atwood (via whatevermethinks) (via book-slut) (via booklover)
“He thinks I suffer from depression. But I’m just quiet. Solitude and depression...”
– “Love Begins in Winter” by Simon Van Booy (via wearebasiclight) (via lauraface)
“Sometimes you just have to be brave. You have to be strong. Sometimes you just...”
– James Marsden (via quote-book)
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
– Dr. Seuss (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
I love the dark hours of my being by Rainer Maria...
booklover:
awritersruminations:
lydianea:
I love the dark hours of my being in which my senses drop into the deep. I have found in them, as in old letters, my private life, that is already lived through, and become wide and powerful now, like legends. Then I know that there is room in me for a second huge and timeless life. But sometimes I am like the tree that stands over a grave, a leafy...
“Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be...”
– Mark Twain (via glitchedperfection) (via quote-book)
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness.
We...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via allthis-beauty) (via quote-book)
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life. It goes...”
We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of True Romance magazines — we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely — at least, not all the time — but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don’t see how you can...
“It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.”
– William G. McAdoo (via libraryland) (via booklover)
“There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they’re good, or...”
– Incubus Dreams by Laurell K. Hamilton (via eunichick)
“Love is many things, none of them logical.”
– The Princess Bride by William Goldman (via eunichick)
“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien | All That is Gold Does Not Glitter (via janettt) (via quote-book)
“Most people fall in love. I had to crash into it.”
– How To Lose A Guy In Ten Days (via kari-shma) (via lovebot)
The Invitation - Oriah Mountain Dreamer
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if...
