July 2012
1,432 posts
“‘Sometimes,’ said Julia, ‘I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on...”
– Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh (via mollying)
“‘One more book’, he had told himself,’ then I’ll stop. One more folio, just one...”
– George R. R. Martin, A Feast for Crows
“My past is everything I failed to be.”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (via larmoyante)
“Au milieu de l’hiver, j’ai découvert en moi un invincible été. In the depths of...”
– Albert Camus (via larmoyante)
“Being a reader has brought me much joy, laughter, and rich experience. But...”
– Steve Kendall (via larmoyante)
“It wasn’t only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was...”
– Ian McEwan, Atonement (via larmoyante)
“She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories...”
– David Nicholls, One Day (via larmoyante)
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees,...”
– Sylvia Plath (via larmoyante)
mamihlapinatapai
larmoyante:
n. a look shared by two people, each wishing the other will initiate something they both desire, but which neither wants to begin.
“It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, White Nights (via larmoyante)
“He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How...”
– Isabel Allende, Inés of My Soul (via larmoyante)
“For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (via larmoyante)
“I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all...”
– Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea (via larmoyante)
“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different...”
– Hermann Hesse (via larmoyante)
“I try to think of things to say but nothing comes and if something did come I...”
– Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies (via larmoyante)
Nature Theme: Do not destroy the nature →
naturetheme-protumbler:
Please, don’t sweep the leaves away – Their essence gives to life’s decay. Never hack the flowers down – Their colours bless the laughing clown. Now why the mowing of the lawn? The severed grass will lie forlorn. Let our flora live undressed, Or under Man, will toil repressed! I, the tree…
“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”
– Jimi Hendrix (via the-random-quotes)
June 2012
376 posts
“I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world...”
– Haruki Murakami (via seabois)
“I shall be useful when I lie down finally: then the trees may touch me for once,...”
– Sylvia Plath (via seabois)
“Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is The Night (via seabois)
“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment....”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via seabois)
It's better to know and be disappointed than to...
Cheating is a choice... Never a mistake.
