May 2012
“We walked at night towards a cafe blooming with Japanese lanterns and I followed...”
– Zelda Fitzgerald (via frivolousandreckless)
weissewiese:
(via ragsandtatters)
Sometimes I sit and imagine this fictional past, my life as it never was. I rode horses, had a pony, and plastered pink rosettes all over my wall. Father dropped me off at school each day where I wore a straw hat and oxford shoes. I could play the piano, and every year around Christmas we went to see the Nutcracker. I used to sneak into Mother’s room and try...
April 17, 2006: I Imagine The Gods, Jack Gilbert
april-is:
I Imagine The Gods Jack Gilbert I imagine the gods saying, We will make it up to you. We will give you three wishes, they say. Let me see the squirrels again, I tell them. Let me eat some of the great hog stuffed and roasted on its giant spit and put out, steaming, into the winter of my neighborhood when I was usually too broke to afford even the hundred grams I ate so happily walking...
“I’ll teach her that she has an army inside her
that can save her life.”
– Nicole Blackman, from “Daughter” (via weissewiese)
“I missed my stop
looking at heartbreak, the sky
almost criminal.”
– Yusef Komunyakaa, from “NJ Transit” (via weissewiese)
“I desired my dust to be mingled with yours
Forever and forever and forever.”
– Li Po (tr. Ezra Pound), from “The River Merchant’s Wife” (via weissewiese)
“I have already let go
of summer. Here, the wind —
dispersal of seeds and...”
– Stacie Cassarino, from “Midwest Eclogue” (via weissewiese)
“Every second he breathed, the smell of the grass, the cool air on his face, was...”
– J. K. Rowling, from “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” (via weissewiese)
“If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of...”
– Steve Jobs (via mariaarroyo)
“I thought, it’s a shame that we have to live, but it’s a tragedy that we get to...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via c-o-r-u-s-c-a-t-e)
“I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not...”
– James Kavanaugh (via creatingaquietmind)
“‘Augustus Waters was a self-aggrandizing bastard. But we forgive him. We forgive...”
– The Fault in Our Stars, John Green (via frivolousandreckless)
“He really was beautiful. I know boys aren’t supposed to be, but he was.”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (via frivolousandreckless)
“Everything you want is on the other side of fear.”
– Jack Canfield (via kari-shma)
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“There are far better things ahead than we can ever leave behind.”
– C.S. Lewis (via meeshayell)
How To Be Happy:
sleepylotus:
Flow.
“The butterfly never wondered:
it flew.”
– Octavio Paz, from “Example”, in A Tree Within, trans. Eliot Weinberger (via the-final-sentence)
“Everything is imprinted for ever with what it once was.”
– Jeanette Winterson, from The Stone Gods (thanks, ikalawangboses)
“Sleep, I swear
there’s no one else—
raise me up
in the near-night
&...”
– Kevin Young, from “Serenade” (via the-final-sentence)
“If there was nothing to regret,
there was nothing to desire.”
– Vera Pavlova, from “[If there is something to desire]”, trans. Steven Seymour (via the-final-sentence)
“Over me only the sky,
and with me, your voice.”
– Anna Akhmatova, from “A Song”, trans. Judith Hemschemeyer (via the-final-sentence)
“i made it up
here on this bridge between
starshine and clay,
my one hand...”
– Lucille Clifton, from “won’t you celebrate with me” (via the-final-sentence)
“Imagine that, for a moment.”
– Joanne Harris, from Sleep, Pale Sister (thanks to gothtimelord)
sleepylotus:
In this world we have strange beings.
There are girls who can’t forgive themselves for breaking their other half and boys who think they are men. (Sometimes this is good, usually it is bad.) There are men who think they are boys—this is the best kind of man, the kind you can marry—and malicious women who will eat you alive to survive.
Don’t fret. I know it seems bleak, but have...
