December 2011
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a-parliament-of-owls:
four winds // bright eyes
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“The stories people tell have a way of taking care of them. If the stories come...”
– Barry Lopez (via bloodisthenewblackk)
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you surely had whispered “long time no sea” and i am still searching for what precisely you meant because well, the blue void never even left and well i know you didn’t mean the other sound of sea, i have been here as long as the ocean, a little quieter maybe, not so persistent to encroach your boardwalk but i let you stand against the wakes and be as exactly you, beautiful as clemency,...
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sufjan stevens -sister winter
“I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better,...”
– The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via thenocturnals)
“I am the most tired woman in the world. I am tired when I get up. Life requires...”
– Anaïs Nin (via atomos)
“I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held. Trying to...”
– Celia Bown (The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern)
“But they can’t know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I...”
– Lurlene McDaniel, Breathless (via whyexistence)
“Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to...”
– Kathryn Stockett (via katelizabeth)
“Sometimes you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal,...”
– John Green, “The Fault in Our Stars.” (via potterwhovian)
“Sleep is such a gracious thief. It steals my time, but gives me strength.”
– Redemption, Adeste (via adjectival)
“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”
– Oscar Wilde (via degasballerina)
“Dear Joe:
How life & the world — the past & the future — are looking —...”
– Mark Twain, Letter to Joseph Twichell (1904)
“Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the...”
– Dean Koontz, Midnight (via whyexistence)
“With you I’m useless with words. As if somehow I had to learn to speak all over...”
– Sandra Cisneros (via thechocolatebrigade)
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“There is a kind of crying I hope you have not experienced, and it is not just...”
– Lemony Snicket (via nirvikalpa)
“I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.”
– Virginia Woolf (via nirvikalpa)
“I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love,
and how you gave me...”
– Charles Bukowski (via undermeyousoquitenew)
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“And the people under the sky were also very much the same…everywhere, all over...”
– George Orwell (via cultureofresistance)
“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”
– Sylvia Plath (via oppressmenot)
“The loneliness… she always felt- had felt since she could remember feeling...”
– Francesca Lia Block (The Waters and the Wild)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
Laura Marling (14)
Angus & Julia Stone (13)
Guards (12)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (9)
Animal Collective (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“I’ve tried so many times to think of a new way to say it — and it’s still I love...”
– Zelda Fitzgerald (via 5adwich)
“I want you any way I can get you. Not because you’re beautiful or clever or kind...”
– Lisa Kleypas (Tempt Me at Twilight)
“She was breathing deeply, she forgot the cold, the weight of beings, the insane...”
– Albert Camus (via misswallflower)
“Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via beatboxgoesthump)
“It’s quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy,...”
– Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre (via thechocolatebrigade)
“… It is unbearably painful
For the soul to love silently.”
– Anna Akhmatova, from The Complete Poems (translated by Judith Hemschemeyer)
“One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must...”
– Aldous Huxley (via mybrainfarts)
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“Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination...”
– Fernando Pessoa (via nirvikalpa)
“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each...”
– A.A. Milne (via magicclouds)
“Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via thefreenomad)