June 2012
2 posts
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think...
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via girlwithoutwings)
She alone spoke the truth; to her alone could he speak it. That was the source...
– Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (via helplesslyamazed)
May 2012
18 posts
When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better...
– Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma)
Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an...
– Jeanette Winterson (via wrists)
I wanted to try this new drink: that’s all we do isn’t it, look at things and...
– Ernest Hemingway (via thegloriouspursuit)
Sometimes we can choose the paths we follow. Sometimes our choices are made for...
– Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 4: Season of Mists (via thresca)
There are moments in our lives when we find ourselves at a crossroad, afraid,...
– Lucas Scott, One Tree Hill (via julie911)
They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world:...
– Tom Bodett (via selfinspiration)
What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the...
– Lacan (via nevver)
Love can come when you’re already who you are, when you’re filled with you. Not...
– Deb Caletti (via kari-shma)
Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable...
– carl jung (via theartofhiding)
You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can...
– Richard Adams, Watership Down (via bookmania)
A first date is like a big “whatever.” The potential for a connection on a first...
– Lori Gottlieb (via spareunderthemat)
If we listened to our intellect we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a...
– Ray Bradbury (via julie911)
April 2012
41 posts
If the pursuit of happiness is making you miserable, it may be time to take a...
– I just want to be sad, okay? | Nourishing the Soul (via rawwomen)
Convincers
dearoldlove:
Every guy I’ve met, gone on dates with, or made out with since we broke up makes me believe in the idea of a soul mate. Each of them convinces me that I have found and lost mine in you.
Your 20’s are your selfish years. It’s a decade to immerse yourself in every...
– Unknown (via thegloriouspursuit)
It only takes one person to change your life: you.
– Ruth Casey (via julie911)
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are...
– Albert Ellis
This is a damn appropriate quote given the misadventures of what I’ll now refer to as Evil Week (which, I officially determined, ended this morning). (via playingthedrumswithamaraca)
She was the purest beauty, but not the common kind
– Lady Antebellum (via makersandmonograms)
Once I thought a guy was my soul mate because we both are the same brand of...
– Lori Gottlieb, co-author of I Love You, Nice to Meet You (via spareunderthemat)
Always keep a bottle of champagne in the fridge for special occasions. Sometimes...
– Hester Browne (via thegloriouspursuit)
You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible...
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (via thegloriouspursuit)
It took me nearly a year to get here. It wasn’t so hard to cross that street...
– My Blueberry Nights (via thresca)
What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I...
– Peter Cameron (via kari-shma)
He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping,...
– W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage (via helplesslyamazed)