May 2012
30 posts
“It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it,...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“If people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska
“It’s easy to rip an unsewn stitch
Or tear the thread of an untold tale—
The...”
– Unknown author, from “Wulf and Eadwacer”, in The Exeter Book, trans. Craig Williamson (thanks, eusonyme)
“I can see it now, that hand of hers; it had only one finger on it, and a thumb.”
– Roald Dahl, from Man from The South (thanks, bricuri0us)
“Not all deviance is negative; without it, we’d never change the world.”
– Stacy Pershall
“Didn’t I stand there once, white-knuckled, gripping the just-lit taper, swearing...”
– mother-ground: Anniversary (via beautifulcafe)
thunder/damp grass/flame
(via aumaine)
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt (via wisdom-justiceandlove)
“In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you...”
– C. S. Lewis (via wisdom-justiceandlove)
“I feel lighter, as if I’m shedding matter, losing molecules, calcium from my...”
– Margaret Atwood 