My Quotes

duncanalonso: I miss you and sleep just isn’t the same.

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 21:03:08 -0400

I miss you and sleep just isn’t the same.

perfect: Virginia Woolf’s suicide note to her husband...

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:14:55 -0400

Virginia Woolf’s suicide note to her husband Leonard before drowning herself.

On 28 March 1941, Virginia Woolf put on her overcoat, filled its pockets with stones, and walked into the River Ouse near her home and drowned herself. Her body was not found until 18 April 1941.Her husband buried her cremated remains under an elm in the garden of Monk’s House.

"Why don’t you tell me that, ‘if the girl had been worth having she’d have waited for you?’” “No,..."

Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:13:23 -0400

“Why don’t you tell me that, ‘if the girl had been worth having she’d have waited for you?’”

“No, sir, the girl really worth having won’t wait for anybody.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via ahundredwordsforsnow)

"it is only once in a while that you see someone whose electricity and prescence matches yours at..."

Thu, 27 Sep 2012 07:58:03 -0400

“

it is only
once in a while
that you see
someone whose
electricity
and prescence
matches yours
at that
moment

and then
usually it’s
a stranger.

it was 3 or 4
years ago
i was walking on
Sunset Blvd
toward Vermont
when
a block away
i noticed a
figure moving
toward me.

there was something
in her carriage
and in her walk
which
attracted
me.

as we came
closer
the intensity
increased.

suddenly
i knew her
entire history:
she had lived
all her life
with men
who had never really
known her.

as she approached
i became almost
dizzy.

i could hear her
footsteps as
she approached.

i looked into
her face.

she was as
beautiful
as i had
imagined she
would be.

as we passed
our eyes fucked
and loved and
sang to each
other

and then
she moved
past me.

i walked on
not looking
back.

then
when i looked
back
she was
gone.

what is one
to do
in a world
where almost everything
worth having
or doing
is
impossible?

I went into
a coffee shop
and decided that
if i ever saw
her again somehow,
I’d say
“listen, please
i just must
speak to
you…”

I never saw her
again

I never will.

the iron in our
society silences
a man’s
heart

and when you
silence a man’s
heart
you leave him
finally with only
a cock.

”

- Once In A While by Charles Bukowski (via istillbelieveinthis)

"that night when you kissed me i left a poem in your mouth you can hear some of the lines every time..."

Sat, 22 Sep 2012 07:46:55 -0400

“that night when you kissed me i left a poem in your mouth
you can hear some of the lines every time you breathe out
and it’s not the best thing i’ve ever written
i’m still working on my rhythm
my tongue gets tied sometimes
my throat gets dry
my hands start trembling honestly
the only thing i’ve mastered is how to write a really good ending
but i’m getting pretty tired of finish lines
so this morning i bought a needle and thread
and started stitching you a sunrise”

- Andrea Gibson, “Yarn” (via agradschoolbreakup)

writingsforwinter: pressing flowers by writingsforwinter

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 22:50:32 -0400

writingsforwinter:

pressing flowers by writingsforwinter

Photo

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 19:24:56 -0400

Photo

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:30:37 -0400

fishingboatproceeds: itsgloriousoutside-: untitled by...

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:29:19 -0400

fishingboatproceeds:

itsgloriousoutside-:

untitled by rocketrictic on Flickr.

This person rocketrictic on Flickr has made all these lovely watercolors (I think they are watercolors?) featuring quotes from my books. I didn’t even know that flickr was still a thing, but these paintings are beautiful.

fishingboatproceeds: rocketrictic: #13 of Green August Week...

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:29:13 -0400

fishingboatproceeds:

rocketrictic:

#13 of Green August Week #3: The Fault In Our Stars

Oh man I love these!

"Go after her. Fuck, don’t sit there and wait for her to call. Go after her because that’s what you..."

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:27:53 -0400

“Go after her. Fuck, don’t sit there and wait for her to call. Go after her because that’s what you should do if you love someone, don’t wait for them to give you a sign because it might never come. Don’t let people happen to you, don’t let me happen to you, or her, she’s not a fucking television show or tornado. There are people I might have loved had they gotten on the airplane or run down the street after me or called me up drunk at four in the morning because they need to tell me right now and because they cannot regret this and I always thought I’d be the only one doing crazy things for people who would never give enough of a fuck to do it back or to act like idiots or be entirely vulnerable and honest and making someone fall in love with you is easy and flying 3000 miles on four days notice because you can’t just sit there and do nothing and breathe into telephones is not everyone’s idea of love but it is the way I can recognize it because that is what I do. Go scream it and be with her in meaningful ways because that is beautiful and that is generous and that is what loving someone is, that is raw and that is unguarded, and that is all that is worth anything, really.”

- Harvey Milk (via spine)

unicornology: Nicole Lavelle continues to be an excellent human...

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:26:55 -0400

unicornology:

Nicole Lavelle continues to be an excellent human being. Invest in her art so she can make more!

"Girls got balls. They’re just a little higher up, is all.” 29/7/78 Joan Jett"

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:26:02 -0400

“Girls got balls. They’re just a little higher up, is all.” 29/7/78 Joan Jett”

- (via thesegirlsrock)

"I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up."

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:25:58 -0400

““I’m on a roller coaster that only goes up.””

- John Green (The Fault in our Stars)

"I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:25:50 -0400

“I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”

- Mark Twain (via theecstasist)

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another."

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:25:42 -0400

“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.”

- Charles Dickens (via ileu)

msattribution: - Jane Austen (1775-1817) [ who | huh ]

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:25:18 -0400

msattribution:

- Jane Austen (1775-1817)

[ who | huh ]

"How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence..."

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:25:05 -0400

“How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present?”

- Milan Kundera (via eazy-does-it)

"The injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of..."

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:25:03 -0400

“The injury that is to be done to a man ought to be of such a kind that one does not stand in fear of revenge.”

- Machiavelli, The Prince (via lord-capulet)

Photo

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:24:50 -0400