February 2012
“We can’t behave like people in novels, though, can we?”
– Edith Wharton (via suzywire)
smttnkttn:
Between You And I // Every Avenue
“i love you much(most beautiful darling)
more than anyone on the earth and i...”
– e.e. cummings (via quotewhore)
“Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.”
– Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (via primavera-)
“The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to...”
– 1984, George Orwell (via suzywire)
Reading Tumblr in public
beekel:
It’s like playing russian roulette with bullets made of porn
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I HATE YOUR COFFEE MACHINE MORE THAN I HATE ANYTHING IN THIS WORLD.
“I’m finished being angry with you. I woke up this morning and I finally realized...”
– Greek (via tothepersoninthebelljar)
“The way you make me feel when I put your hand in mine. It’s like we built a...”
– Luke Conard (via yoashleydawn)
zooeyclairedeschanel:
friends who have seen your ugly crying face and still choose to hang out with you are the only friends you need in your life
“And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins.”
– The Silver Chair, by C. S. Lewis (via suzywire)
“The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to...”
– 1984, George Orwell (via lionskeleton)
“I will remember your small room, the feel of you, the light in the window, your...”
– Charles Bukowski (via stressbuilds-character)
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Starting a Things That Shouldn’t Happen at Grove City tumblr. If, like me, you are unafraid to take pictures of people being disgusting, please submit.
“They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without...”
– Possession by A.S. Byatt (via thechocolatebrigade)
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“You were last seen walking through a field of pianos. No. A museum of mouths. In...”
– “new york craigslist > personals > missed connections,” Megan Falley (via clavicola)
“It’s a mystery of human chemistry, and I don’t understand it. Some people, as...”
– High Fidelity by Nick Hornby (via kriswithaque)
Freshman year, I bought Slam, which is one of Hornby’s young adult novels, from a bargain bookstore in the nearby outlet mall. Somehow I’ve accumulated six or seven of his novels since then and devoured them. I love Hornby’s frankness and how he saves...
“I’d majored in English because I loved to read, not because I had any idea of...”
– Nicole Krauss, Great House (via thequeen0flimbs)
Do any of us major in English because we know what we’re doing? Isn’t that the point? We read because we have no idea who we are or what we want and we revel in the community of books and characters and stories who teach us there is more to life than...
Anonymous asked: Why do you want Obama out of office? And who do you suggest as a replacement?
“Undress. Take off your clothes. Take off your body. Hang them up behind the...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook (via helplesslyamazed)
