January 2010
31 posts
“I’ve good friends with bad habits.
What am I to do?
They’re literary...”
– Owen (Good Friends, Bad Habits) (via elegantslum)
“I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not...”
– James Kavanaug (via elegantslum)
“When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder. Everything...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
Watch…for walking to class on days that almost feel like spring
“I watch you braid your hair,
you’re from another time
when the earth...”
– Monsters of Folk - Temazcal
“We artists are indestructible, even in a prison cell or concentration camp I...”
– Pablo Picasso | Submitted by: royalsadness (via quote-book)
Pheonix
I am the beast, the brute.
I am the ignoramus.
Staring into too many blank eyes has left me rather empty myself,
Surviving on memories of a time when the world was round
And my future was as flat as the open plains I desired to cross.
Hiding out on the bottom bunk,
I realize that this is not enough.
I can’t go back to the philosophies I cherished so,
Those have become obsolete,
And I...
“Wouldn`t you like to get away?
Kerouac`s beckoning with open arms,
And open...”
– Belle and Sebastian - Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie
“Later in the bare silence of her tiny room she remembered the unaccomplished...”
– Quicksand
Nella Larsen
A Beautiful but Not Entirely Functional Feeling
I have a hard time reading your words because they pierce me and interrupt my daily coping. In a simple and definitive moment, my excuses and petty trials are slashed and the one thing that matters stands clear.
It is the only thing that has ever mattered.
allisonkilla:
laurencephilomene:
...
THEY ARE TOO CAVALIER ABOUT IT.
IT’S NOT AN OKAY THING AT ALL.
IT BURNS YOU.
IT DRIVES YOU MAD.
21. 12. 09
Stars - A Thread Cut With a Carving Knife
“You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between...”
– Marya Hornbacher (via funeral) (via thingsgohazy)