February 2012
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“I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.”
– Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
Feb 24th
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“I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer (via thebookishdark)
Feb 24th
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“I can see a hundred people a day who have given up entirely.”
– Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame - Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
Feb 24th
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Feb 23rd
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“Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.”
– William Faulkner (via misswallflower)
Feb 23rd
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“Krogstad: The law cares nothing about motives. Nora: Then it is a very bad law.”
– A Doll’s House, Henrik Ibsen (@monmonomnom)
Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
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“I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me. So when people say...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (via afewofmyfavourites)
Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
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Feb 23rd
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“Maybe I don’t really want to know what’s going on. Maybe I’d...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
Feb 23rd
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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“That song you softly sing is keeping you from breaking It’s a long way...”
– Belle of the Boulevard, Dashboard Confessional
Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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“… It is unbearably painful For the soul to love silently.”
– Anna Akhmatova, from The Complete Poems (translated by Judith Hemschemeyer)
Feb 22nd
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Feb 22nd
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Feb 21st
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“Life is too short to be all daylight. Night is not less; it’s more.”
– Jeanette Winterson, from Why I adore the night
Feb 20th
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“For me the postmodern attitude is that of a man who loves a woman who is...”
– Umberto Eco 1983 (via clarityandchaos)
Feb 20th
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Feb 19th
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Feb 19th
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“Later — when things happened that they could never have imagined — she wrote him...”
– Nicole Krauss, The History Of Love (via tothepersoninthebelljar)
Feb 19th
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Feb 19th
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Feb 17th
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Feb 17th
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Feb 17th
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“I knew from the start, the moment I saw your eyes, I won’t heal from this.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
Feb 17th
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Feb 17th
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Feb 16th
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“…tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had...”
– Oscar Wilde  (via coello)
Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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“After all my erstwhile dear, my no longer cherished; Need we say it was not...”
– Edna St. Vincent Millay (via doubledaybooks)
Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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“Would ‘sorry’ have made any difference? Does it ever? It’s just a word. One word...”
– Bittersweet, Sarah Ockler (via word-collector)
Feb 16th
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“I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that...”
– Elie Wiesel (via katiecrosby)
Feb 16th
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Feb 16th
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“That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.”
– John Green, An Abundance of Katherines  (via faintsmiles)
Feb 16th
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“Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith...”
– Ian McEwan, Atonement (via doubledaybooks)
Feb 16th
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Feb 15th
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Feb 15th
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Feb 15th
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“He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a...”
– Blackbird House by Alice Hoffman (via thebookishdark)
Feb 15th
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