December 2011
1 post
But before she could be disappointed, or awkward, or any of the things she had feared she would be when he at last came home, he looked around the room with a quick, half-ironic glance that she knew an instant. Then he looked at her with the most familiar smile in the world and said, ‘I’m home.’
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke
October 2011
1 post
1 tag
September 2011
1 post
“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able...”
– Simone de Beauvoir
August 2011
5 posts
5 tags
July 2011
1 post
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply...”
– Lao Tzu
June 2011
2 posts
“The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it...”
– Henry Miller
April 2011
2 posts
Red as love
Rouge le soir, bel espoirRouge le matin, de la pluie en chemin
March 2011
4 posts
“Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?”
– Steve Jobs
“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the...”
– Roald Dahl
February 2011
1 post
January 2011
5 posts
December 2010
6 posts
Is the battle considered won?
Was it won honourably?
September 2010
14 posts
It hurts almost surprisingly much, and I should feel gladness or relief or affirmation of some sort, but all I am is tired and afraid
“If at first an idea does not sound absurd, then there is no hope for it.”
– Albert Einstein (via quote-book)
“You’re in bad shape. It looks like you’re developing a soul.”
– Yevgeny Zamyatin, We (via planetcaravan)
“I think to myself that when you’re in love, sometimes you have to swallow your...”
– Something Borrowed, Emily Giffin (via quote-book)
“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s...”
– Erica Jong, from How to Save Your Own Life | (Via Star of the Sea) (via quote-book)
mer-et-soleil:
My medicine Has many contrasting flavours. Engrossed in, or perplexed by The differences between them, The patient forgets to suffer.
— Book of Longing, Leonard Cohen
Inception.
fuckyeahmath:
You’re waiting for an asymptote. An asymptote that will take you far, far away. You know where you hope the function will take you, but you don’t know for sure. But it doesn’t matter. Because this is the limit.
“We crossed our bridges when we came to them and burn them behind us, with...”
– Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (via quote-book)
“There are still a few men who love desperately.”
– J.D. Salinger | Submitted by: bornonthe17th (via quote-book)
August 2010
1 post
“Here’s a prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages.”
– Tennessee Williams (via girlwithoutwings) (via quote-book)
July 2010
2 posts
“Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and...”
– Gabrielle Zevin - Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac (Submitted by todayithought) (via quote-book)
“You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.”
– Yoko Ono (via secular) (via suzywire, merricat) (via loveyourchaos)
May 2010
13 posts
