May 2013
2 posts
“This love is silent.”
– T.S. Eliot (via lonehands)
April 2013
11 posts
“How fragile we are, between the few good moments.”
– “Vinegar and Oil,” Jane Hirshfield (via elliptical)
“Heart, do not stain my skin
With bruises; go about
Your simple function. Mind,...”
– Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Theme and Variations II” (via talisman)
“i am an ocean of quiet.”
– Rakishi. 1912. (via lylaandblu)
“[I saw how the night came,
Came striding like the color of the heavy hemlocks....”
– Wallace Stevens, from “Domination of Black” (via the-final-sentence)
“You have my permission not to love me;
I am a cathedral of deadbolts
and I’d...”
– Rachel McKibbens, “Letter From My Brain To My Heart” (via loveyourchaos)
March 2013
8 posts
“Y. That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The...”
– Marjorie Celona (via elliptical)
“A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in―what more could he ask? A few...”
– Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (via seols)
“Live on coffee and flowers. Try not to worry what the weather will be.”
– Matt Berninger (via penseesduchoeur)
February 2013
7 posts
“We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of...”
– T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party (via lonehands)
“I loved you head over handles
like my first bicycle accident—
before the...”
– Sierra DeMulder, from “Cycle of Abuse” (via fleurishes)
January 2013
15 posts
“Sometimes you’re 23 and standing in the kitchen of your house making breakfast...”
– The Winter of the Air (via lonehands)
“[You want to know what I know?]
Your own hands are lying.”
– Carolyn Forché, from “Taking Off My Clothes” (via the-final-sentence)
“He seeks life where it is to be found: in all that is most delicate, in the...”
– Hugo von Hofmannsthal (via seabois)
“The air is a beautiful princess without bones.”
– Takiguchi Shuzo, “Documents d’oiseaux” (via seabois)
“Eventually soulmates meet, for they have the same hiding place.”
– Robert Brault (via loveyourchaos)
“Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time”
– Alan Moore (via dinosaurcostume)
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via girlwithoutwings)
“You play along,
because you want to die for love,
you always have.”
– Richard Siken (via coffeeisjolly)
“ It’s about girls who sleep in abandoned cars and set things on fire. It’s about...”
– Harmony Korine (via seabois)
December 2012
17 posts
“people so tired
mutilated
either by love or no love.”
– Charles Bukowski (via sadseas)
“O beautiful
was the werewolf
in his evil forest.”
– Richard Brautigan (via theundiscoveredcontinent)
“If I love you more, will you suffer less?”
– Elie Wiesel quotes his five-year-old grandson at Boston University lecture series (via lunelait) 