February 2011
145 posts
“To break the heart of an artist is to give her more talent .”
– (via marina88)
January 2011
113 posts
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“I might show facts as plain as day:
But, since your eyes are blind, you’d...”
– Christina Georgina Rossetti
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"Holding Hands" by Lenore M. Link
Elephants walking Along the trails Are holding hands By holding tails
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“Your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now.”
– Judith Malina
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is...”
– John Keating, Dead Poets Society (via soulfire)
“It is better to suffer wrong than to do wrong.”
– Socrates (via hausisse)
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“A relationship can work only if you know you can be alone.”
– Bar Refaeli
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“Sometimes you have to stop swimming and just float.”
– The Suite Life on Deck
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“Read one improving book or magazine per week.”
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Planning out what one says is simply a lost cause.
There are no perfect words, there is no perfect timing, and there is no real way to know what you want to say until the words are spilling halfway out of your mouth and there’s no way to take them back.
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“What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her...”
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Feelings were hard to put into words. Most often when he did find words, they...”
– Suspension by Richard E. Crabbe
“I wish I could press snowflakes in a book like flowers.”
– James Schuyler (via ofspectacleswitnessed)
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“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he...”
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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““Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space....”
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“You can’t blame a writer for what the characters say.”
– Truman Capote (via libraryland)
“Truth only means something when it’s hard to admit.”
– Nicholas Sparks (The Last Song)
“For all the times we punish ourselves, very few times have we actually done...”
– John Clayton Mayer (via halfofhisheartsgotme)
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Whenever I read an old book that has margin notes from previous readers, I can’t help but wonder how those past readers were feeling in that moment. If they reacted to the reading the same way I did? If they could relate to the characters? Why were they reading the book in the first place? Were they possibly in love…
These obscure things interest me terribly.
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“The remedy is worse than the evil.”
– Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau
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“Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“I have always wondered what he is thinking when he looks at me, because when I...”
– Nora Roberts, Northern Lights (via itookadeepbreath)
oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we...
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“New technology has not made for better filmmakes, just more of us.”
– Viola in Reel Life by Adriana Trigiani
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“We want to go home, where we know who we are and what we like, where familiar...”
– Viola in Reel Life by Adriana Trigiani
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“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings...”
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“A smile given can never be taken back.”
– Suspension by Richard E. Crabbe
“There’s a difference between being honest and using ‘honesty’ as a justification...”
– Emily Gould (via maratessa)
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“It was the kind of day when words were snatched away on the wind and clouds...”
– Suspension by Richard E. Crabbe
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“The more he looked at the logic of it, the more illogical it looked. But then...”
– Suspension by Richard E. Crabbe
“It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and...”
– Abraham Lincoln (via kari-shma)
“I’m sorry you fell in a fountain. I’m sorry it was so hilarious.”
– Anderson Cooper (via ernesthemingway-)
“The trouble with trouble is it starts out as fun.”
– ~ Naomi Judd (via gatekeeper)
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“I cried to see him go, but I could’ve burst with the pride I had in him...”
– Suspension by Richard E. Crabbe
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“Sometimes fear can be measured.”
– Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi
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“It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you...”
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is...”
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“We heard it from three people, so it must be true.”
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all.”
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald