May 2013
59 posts
“I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my...”
– Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho (via larmoyante)
Of course it’s difficult, to bolster the unadulterated, mystical dreams of children. Of course it’s hard to go along with something you cannot, can never understand. To shroud yourselves in the mysteries of playing pretend, of wingless flight and talking trees, of upturned skies and drained seas - it is almost scary. Scary because it is not the order we know, scary because maybe, just maybe, it is...
“Isn’t it funny? I’m enjoying my hatred so much more than I ever enjoyed love....”
– Janet Fitch, White Oleander (via lazyteen)
“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of...”
– John Keats (via fleurstains)
“I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit (via larmoyante)
“Don’t think you’re the only bastard who ever suffered—just write as if you were.”
– William Logan (via larmoyante)
“The best sentences orient us, like stars in the sky, like landmarks on a trail....”
– Jhumpa Lahiri, My Life’s Sentences (via larmoyante)
“He loved her in a subtle kind of way. It wasn’t the kind of love you see in...”
– Jake Christie, Small Stories (via larmoyante)
“The mind is beautiful because of the paradox. It uses itself to understand...”
– Adam Elenbass (via wizlaqueefa)
“You can hold back from the suffering of the world. You have free permission to...”
– Franz Kafka (via larmoyante)
“Seduce me. Write letters to me. And poems, I love poems. Ravish me with your...”
– Anne Boleyn (via larmoyante)
“There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn...”
– Laurell K. Hamilton (via larmoyante)
“A story was a form of telepathy. By means of inking symbols onto a page, she was...”
– Ian McEwan Atonement (via circumstanceanddisposition)
“We sit and talk quietly,
with long lapses of silence,
and I am aware of the...”
– William Carlos Williams (via larmoyante)
“You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.”
– Alan Moore, V for Vendetta (via larmoyante)
“If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to...”
– Hilary Mantel (via larmoyante)
“I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have...”
– Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (via larmoyante)
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (via larmoyante) 