February 2011
42 posts
January 2011
82 posts
“Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like...”
– Janet Fitch, White Oleander (via libraryland)
“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.”
– George Bernard Shaw. I know too many believers. (via sambalele)
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no...”
– Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)
“Art must take reality by surprise.”
– Francoise Sagan (via kari-shma)
“Don’t get it right, just get it written.”
– James Thurber (via writingadvice)
“And love is a homeless guy
Searching for treasure in the middle of the rain and...”
– bo burnham (via livinglikelalala)
“”Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best,” and then he had to stop and think....”
– A.A. Milne (via quote-book)
“you can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming.”
– pablo neruda (via thelongestshadow)
firebolting:
You always break the kindest heart ...
“When they first saw him he was absolutely plain, black and plain; but still he...”
– Mansfield Park by Jane Austen (via youkeepmewarmatnight)
awritersruminations:
Denise Levertov reading...
“When you love people & have the desire to make a profound, positive impact...”
– Sasha Azevedo (via kari-shma)
“I don’t fear death. I had been dead for billions of years before I was born, and...”
– Mark Twain (via ontheborderland)
“If you can not be a poet, be the poem.”
– David Carradine (via kari-shma)
“It’s not the men in your life that counts, but the life in your men.”
– Mae West (via kari-shma)
“You think because he doesn’t love you that you are worthless. You think because...”
– Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon (via houseofsasha)
“Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without...”
– Christian Dior (via innocentintegrity)
“Any heart which is not broken is not a heart.”
– Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 francs. Submitted by ourearth (via quote-book)
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via kari-shma)
“Do me a favor… Stand up, walk to wherever the nearest window is, and just look...”
– Chad Sugg (via fuckyeahbackseatgoodbye)
“It took my lifetime
to finally understand:
home is a person.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
“You know, I’m sick of following my dreams, man. I’m just going to ask where...”
– (via kingphiliptraum)
“A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that...”
– David Brinkley (via haislog)
“In some ways I think you’re always the kid you were when puberty first destroyed...”
– Jon Stewart (via libraryland)
“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect....”
–
F. Scott Fitzgerald
(via loveandbelovable)
Hot damn.
“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those...”
– The Great Gatsby (via dustbunnies-)
“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via libraryland)
“Let every bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce, old tome he discovers a...”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge (via cinderellainrubbershoes)
“Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
– Voltaire (via quote-book)
