May 2013
1 post
April 2013
4 posts
“Let it go - the
smashed word broken
open vow or
the oath cracked length
wise...”
– E.E Cummings, Let It Go (via violentwavesofemotion)
“I need to emerge from tiny time-stopping moments; I need to exist inside dawn’s...”
– Virginia Woolf, Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909 (via violentwavesofemotion)
March 2013
12 posts
“I have sculpted your body from the dust on the doorknob.
I hoarded your name in...”
– Sierra DeMulder, from “Your Love Finds Its Way Back”
1 tag
2 tags
“And I want health. By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living,...”
– Katherine Mansfield, Entry in her journal dated 10 October 1922, which she tore out to send to John Middleton Murry, before changing her mind. This later became the last published entry in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927).
“I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering,...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (via bookmania)
“I guess I’ve been bruised, if we were to speak plain.
Every bruise that...”
– “Skeletons” - Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
February 2013
7 posts
1 tag
“Long ago I realized that no other person would be to me what you are.”
– Virginia Woolf, Selected Letters
“I want to flower loudly. I want shameless pinks and golds. Whitman sounded his...”
– Shirley (via growing-orbits)
“I’m not sure what I’ll do, but— well, I want to go places and see people. I want...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Ice Palace
“Y para ser más franca
Nadie piensa en ti como lo hago yo
Aunque te de lo mismo”
– “Inevitable”, Shakira.
January 2013
4 posts
“C’est le temps de l’amour,
le temps des copains et de...”
– “Le temps de l’amour”, Francoise Hardy.
November 2012
3 posts
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt (via thatkindofwoman)
“Dear Leonard. To look life in the face. Always to look life in the face and to...”
– Michael Cunningham, The Hours.
October 2012
3 posts
“It’s impossible,” said pride.
“It’s risky,” said...”
– Author unknown.
“Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the...”
– “The Summer Day” by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver.
August 2012
8 posts
Dici che il fiume Trova la via al mare E come il...
“Be silent and don’t try to add up what’s been
given. An uncountable grace has...”
– Rumi, from “Joseph” in The Soul of Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks.
July 2012
8 posts
“Night. Heavenly delicious sweet night of the desert that calls all of us out to...”
– Leslie Marmon Silko, The Turquoise Ledge (via awritersruminations)
“Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same...”
– Aidan Chambers, This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn
“For myself, I am an optimist- it does not seem much use being anything else.”
– Winston Churchill.
“The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life.The...”
– Tim Keller.
