June 2012
Anonymous asked: I've read Nabokov's books like you suggested. It took me a while to read Lolita because the plot was quite disturbing. But I loved it, along with the others. And I can't express how much I fell in love with his writing, his words. Thank you for helping me find him.
“I became aware of the world’s tenderness, the profound beneficence of all that...”
– Vladimir Nabokov
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“Fear no more, says the heart. Fear no more, says the heart, committing its...”
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
“The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly...”
– Vincent van Gogh
“At that moment I was sure. That I belonged in my skin. That my organs were mine...”
– Dave Eggers
Anonymous asked: I like your theme. Where did you get it? Thank you xx
“Ah, but poems amount to so little when you write them too early in your life....”
– The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, Rainer Maria Rilke (x)
“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.”
– Edvard Munch
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Now he sleeps with one eye open. Treads the pavement snake-like to keep from harm. The people around him had resembled ghosts threatening him to follow suit. They were scared. of him. of what his words could do, so he took his dust-covered books from the attic and flew to the other end of the world. He ties his green scarf around his neck a little too tightly, wears his sweater a little too...
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I told her to shoot me with a gun next time it...
Poetry, french films, lopsided smiles. I just fall in love so easily, you know?
“But hands are sacred things. Touch is personal, fingers of love, feelers of...”
– Keri Hulme, The Bone People (via horasmortas)
“If we listened to our intellect we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a...”
– Ray Bradbury (via pavorst)
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“If now and then we encounter pages that explode, pages that wound and sear, that...”
– Henry Miller
““We are all one question, and the best answer seems to be love—a connection...”
– Mary Ruefle courtesy of Whiskey River.
Anonymous asked: Can you show me your tracked tags?
“It is June, and I am tired of being brave.”
– Anne Sexton (The Truth The Dead Know)
