February 2011
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“Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are...”
– Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
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“There is a fallacy that the powerful emotion of youth mellows with time. Not...”
– Nicole Krauss, Great House (via psychotherapy)
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“Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet
confinement of your aloneness
to...”
– House of Belonging by David Whyte (via melancholynotes)
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“I have so much to say to you.
I want to begin at the beginning, because that is...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (via melancholynotes)
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“By heart, this is not an expression I use lightly.
My heart is weak and...”
– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love (via lydianea)
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“The questions I would have liked to ask people were: ‘Are you in love? What are...”
– A Certain Smile by Françoise Sagan (via pinpricks)
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“A few weeks later I passed a drugstore with a photo booth. I went in. From then...”
– Leo Gursky, The History of Love by Nicole Krauss (via lydianea)
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“Put all your soul into it, play the way you feel.”
– Frédéric Chopin (via abrokensomething)
January 2011
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“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien (via whiteteapotsandfloralteacups)
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“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness.
We...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via kari-shma) (via quote-book, kari-shma) (via mylovablemonster) (via immaescapereality)
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“How many slams in an old screen door?
Depends how loud you shut it.
How many...”
– Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic (via paintmegreeen-)
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“You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields...”
– Jonathan Carroll, American author (via betterwordsthanmine) (via quote-book) (via beautyintherain)
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“One day you fall for this boy. And he touches you with his fingers. And he burns...”
– The Tracey Fragments (via elegios)
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“You know we just don’t recognize the most significant moments of our lives while...”
– Burt Lancaster, Field of Dreams (via filmquotes) (via thoughtsdetained) (via beautyintherain)
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“At the same time I ask myself, as I had already begun to ask myself back then:...”
– The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
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“But if something hurts me, the hurts I suffered back then come back to me, and...”
– The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
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“At first I wanted to write our story in order to be free of it. But the memories...”
– The Reader, Bernhard Schlink
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