January 2011
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“Heartbreak becomes a more controlled insanity in your twenties, a manageable...”
– Ryan O’Connell on How To Get Your Heart Broken By A Boy For The First Time
A piece of string
melancholynotes:
“So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days, you can hear their chorus rushing past: IwasabeautifulgirlPleasedon’tgoItoobelievemybodyismadeofglass-I’veneverlovedanyoneIthinkofmyselfasfunnyForgiveme…. There was a time when it wasn’t uncommon to use a piece of...
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“…This is a kiss. It is what happens when lips are puckered and pressed against...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via loveyourchaos)
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“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
– Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll (via heavydrug)
Look what I found in my inbox today...
Dear Harvard College Students,
In light of the heavy snow fall that is predicted…blah blah blah blah blahhhhhhhh
my thought process while reading: I’M IN MIAMI BIATCHHHHHHH! ;)
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“You just need to have a love for what you’re doing. It’s not about thinking that...”
– Anna Wintour (via iamhautecouture)
that’s it. someone shoot me.
Fragile things
melancholynotes:
“Music. A flower in a vase on the tray. A January rose, it wouldn’t last long, all big and full-blown like that. He loved things like this, fragile, that wouldn’t last. She touched its silver-mauve petals, a hundred layers like an old-fashioned petticoat. The Japanese would say that’s their elegance, the brevity of their beauty.”
Paint it Black by Janet Fitch
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“We say more with eyes
than tired words and whispers
could ever explain.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
Watchelliptical:
The Little Things — Earlimart
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“Schopenhauer, in his splendid essay called “On an Apparent Intention in the Fate...”
– Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth. From Return to the Center (via crashinglybeautiful)
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“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be...”
– bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions (via outsidewarmafghans)
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“The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being...”
– Oscar Wilde, Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (via thevaultedsky) (via tableauxparisiens)
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“You’re considered superficial and silly if you are interested in fashion, but I...”
– Sofia Coppola (via sofiacoppola)
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“Is there anything, apart from a really good chocolate cream pie and receiving a...”
– Bill Bryson (via thresca)
