January 2012
24 posts
Anne Sexton sometimes seemed like a woman without skin. She felt everything so...
– Erica Jong on the poet Anne Sexton (via cameliaoaks)
As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create...
– Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (via llibre)
Tonight, in the infinitesimal light of the stars,
The trees and the flowers...
– Sylvia Plath, I Am Vertical (via fitzandizzyspells)
Your love should never be offered to the mouth of a stranger,
Only to someone...
– Hafiz (via dansmesbras)
I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and...
– C.S. Lewis (via antl3rs)
4 tags
2 tags
December 2011
14 posts
I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I...
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via fitzandizzyspells)
But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you...
– Haruki Murakami (via roscoe-)
I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your...
– Margaret Atwood (via fitzandizzyspells)
You are so young; you stand for beginnings. I would like to beg of you, dear...
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (via ruefle)
Nothing means what we mean it to mean.
And that’s the part
I can’t ever get...
– Theodore Worozbyt, excerpt from Dinner With the Blues (via megalita)
Ten things only writers understand →
unicornology:
tarts:
Worth reading for
8. Just as you’re dropping off to sleep you think of a brilliant line or plot twist but can’t face turning on the light to write it down. So you convince yourself you’ll remember it in the morning, only to find it has gone the moment you open your eyes.
and
9. Sometimes when you read certain other authors you admire, you feel so envious of their...
November 2011
13 posts
All men dream: but not equally.
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses...
– T. E. Lawrence (via unicornology)
People run from rain but
sit
in bathtubs full of
water.
– Charles Bukowski (via fitzandizzyspells)
mitford:
I meant what I said on the phone when I said that I will start a pub called LOVE and when you walk inside there is a sign that says, you are in love, you are in love you are in love.
— D. Brown
There’s a folder of pictures I can’t open.
There’s so many songs that don’t...
– I Wrote This For You: The Missing Machine (via kari-shma)