February 2012
“I’m a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me...”
– J.D. Salinger (via dailystendhalnitesaudade)
“Death in the movies is the death I understand. A last breath forced out by an...”
– “Reel” by Barry Grass, now at Specter Magazine (via spectercollective)
“But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen...”
– Paulo Coelho (via salveo)
“If you don’t feel it, flee from it. Go where you are celebrated, not merely...”
– Paul F. Davis (via myquotelibrary)
January 2012
“When you start to really know someone, all his physical characteristics start to...”
– Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies (via danseurs)
“When fear crawls out in the evenings from all four corners, when the winter...”
– Elsa Binder, 30 January 1942, from Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust (edited by Alexandra Zapruder)
Elsa Binder wrote eloquently and passionately about the destruction of the Jewish community in Stanislawow, Poland. Her diary was found in a ditch on the way to an execution...
“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is...”
– Lewis Carroll (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
“We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of...”
– T. S. Eliot (via pavorst)
“In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.”
– William S. Burroughs, Queer (via honeyforthehomeless)
“I am disillusioned enough to know that no man’s opinion on any subject is worth...”
– H. P. Lovecraft (via cozmoxandre)
“I try to maintain a healthy dose of daydreaming, to remain sane.”
– Florence Welch (via therabbithearted)
“I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria,...”
– Tennessee Williams (via ungathering)
“There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (via xenium)
“I don’t know anything with certainty, but seeing the stars makes me dream.”
– Vincent Van Gogh (via philphys)
the melancholic temperament: Facebook is a... →
katelizabeth:
Facebook is a dangerous and precarious place for some people. It’s especially dangerous for those who have detached themselves from certain people in their lives. It is an unpleasant place for someone who has become a loner; an endless stream of photos and posts of your previous friends, lovers,…
“Talking about someone who makes you happy actually makes you happy. Being happy...”
– Elizabeth Scott, Bloom (via drowsybears)
“He kissed me. Really put his arms around me and kissed me. It went through my...”
– E. Lockhart, The Boyfriend List (via drowsybears)
