June 2013
12 posts
“Her lips drink water but her heart drinks wine.”
—E.E. Cummings (via larmoyante)
“I know I don’t need him, but I think I want him.”
—Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain (via perfect)
My mind's distracted and confused, my thoughts are many miles away
Cut out his sleep to spite his dreams, picked all the flowers to spite the bees
“I hated being depressed, but it was also in depression that I learned my own acreage, the full extent of my soul.”
—Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon (via larmoyante)
May 2013
77 posts
There's no sympathy for we don't know the cure, Cause what you've got, well it runs too pure But you've lived and breathed more than any man I know, But you're not done, oh, at least, I hope
It's hard to get high when you're living on the bottom
“I placed a few nouns
in beautiful cages
then let them out.” —Matthew Zapruder, “Poem for Japan” (via larmoyante)
in beautiful cages
then let them out.” —Matthew Zapruder, “Poem for Japan” (via larmoyante)
“You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe it to your mother, you don’t owe it to your children, you don’t owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked “female”.”
—Erin McKean, You Don’t Have to Be Pretty (via larmoyante)
“There is an ache in my heart for the imagined beauty of a life I haven’t had, from which I had been locked out, and it never goes away.”
—Robert Goolrick (via thelostdeer)
“Most people love you for who you pretend to be”
—Jim Morrison (via sophie-amelie)
It's a fine romance but it's left me so undone
“Eventually soul mates meet, for they have the same hiding place.”
—Robert Brault (via browneyed-girl-)
“I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It’s nice.”
—J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via vanished)
“I open your legs with my knee so I don’t have to stain my hands on your light. You are burning, luminescent, and I am afraid that if I touch you too deeply you will devour me as the moon devours the sky.”
—Hungry Moon (via billielunette)
