October 2011
“Despite its long affiliation with loss, love also accrues: steady accumulation...”
– Julie Marie Wade, “There’s no hole on earth where the heart drops through without bringing something with it.” (via holdonmagnolia)
“Allow life to happen to you. Believe me, life is right in all cases.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (Trans. by Joan M. Burnham)
“Sometimes things don’t go, after all,
from bad to worse. Some years, muscadel...”
– Sometimes by Sheenagh Pugh (thank you, art-of-drowning)
“I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes....”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (via misswallflower)
“Strange how we do not alter ourselves
to fit the dimensions of this room
in...”
– Hunger Strike by Kristine Ong Muslim (via grammatolatry)
“Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s all...”
– Diary -Chuck Palahniuk (via musingsinfemininity)
“Perhaps we dont like what we see: our hips, our loss of hair, our shoe size, our...”
– Sufjan Stevens (via danseurs)
and the feelings that scare her become her... →
inlovewmydoubt:
”It is not so much that there are ironies of history, it is that history itself is ironic. It is not that there are no certainties, it is that it is an absolute certainty that there are no certainties. It is not only true that the true test of knowledge is an acute and cultivated awareness of…
“Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the...”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via suzywire)
Mike Mitchell's Tumblr of Amazing Things.:... →
sirmitchell:
1. If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are successful because you worked hard, just as if you are tall with long hair it doesn’t mean you would be a midget if you were bald.
2. “Fortune” is a word for having a lot of money and for having a lot of luck, but…
Hardcore for Nerds: Post-structuralism →
thisis:
I was at a wedding the other day and I wanted to call Orientalism on any girl who flirted with me and denounce her for viewing me through the lens of her preconceived notions of the East. She could have responded by pointing out that I was no innocent, that I was projecting my…
