April 2011
103 posts
March 2011
60 posts
And a black widow spider makes more sound than she.
And black moons in those eyes of hers made more sense to me.
-Fleetwood Mac.
I want to be
the one you want in your mind and your gut and your bathroom.
But I don’t want you to fuck the whole world to find out.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
In the dark depth of my soul, invisible, unknown, forces were locked in a battle...
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (via alphabetizingabsurdities)
You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in...
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via human-voices)
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your...
– Franz Kafka (via theunabridgedjournalsof)
You don’t need water to feel like you’re drowning, do you?
And you will kill your heart because it will become too difficult to live with
– Jean Giono
"Nothing destroys a man like his own self."
“And no one can save him like his own self.”
-Mahfouz’s “Arabian Nights and Days”
Does the rose have to do something? No, the purpose of a rose is to be a rose....
– Thich Nhat Hanh. (via lightglobes)
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to...
-Frida Kahlo.
“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I’m neurotic as hell. I’ll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.”
-Sylvia Plath, “The Bell Jar”
Tiger Mom, RAWR. →
– When I pronounce the word Future, the first syllable already belongs to the past. When I pronounce the word Silence, I destroy it. When I pronounce the word Nothing, I make something no non-being can hold.
Wislawa Szymborska, “The Three Oddest Words,” translated by S. Baranczak and C. Cavanagh (via...