February 2012
188 posts
fleur-morte:
being emotionally attached to someone you’ve never met
“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that...”
– Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (via farewell-kingdom)
“I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple...”
– John Green (via infinitives)
What I'm thinking: "I really just want to curl into a little ball and cry myself asleep."
What I say: "I'm okay.. thank you."
Cassandra Clare: City of Lost Souls Chapter Titles →
cassandraclare:
Prologue: Consecrated
Read it here.
Chapter One: The Last Council
In which we meet some new characters
Chapter Two: Thorns
A place shaped like a heart is full of thorns and roses — Yeats Chapter Three: Bad Angels
Along the wall were the pegs where the residents of the Institute hung…
https://kieljamespatrick.com/ →
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension,...”
– Anaïs Nin (via presidiums)
“Closing your eyes isn’t going to change anything. Nothing’s going to disappear...”
– Haruki Murakami (via cavum)
We talk like we know what’s going on, but we don’t. We don’t know anything. We’re young and we’re gonna screw-up a lot. We’re gonna keep changing our minds and even sometimes our hearts. And through all that, the only real thing we can offer each other is forgiveness.
Even when your heart is breaking, you should...
“What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.”
– John Green, Paper Towns (via -bookworm)
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A wise man once said – “You can have anything in life if you’re willing to sacrifice everything else for it.” What he meant is nothing comes without a price. So before you go into battle, you better decide how much you’re willing to lose. Too often going after what feels good means letting go of what you know is right. And letting someone in means abandoning the walls you’ve spent a lifetime...
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“Okay, so, sometimes even the best of us make rash decisions. Bad decisions. Decisions we pretty much know we’re going to regret the moment, the minute, especially the morning after. I mean, maybe not regret, regret because at least, you know, we put ourselves out there. But…still. Something inside us decides to do a crazy thing. A thing we know will probably turn around and bite...
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Superstition lies in the space between what we can control and what we can’t. Find a penny, pick it up, and all day long you’ll have good luck. No one wants to pass up a chance for good luck. But does saying it thirty three times really help? Is anyone really listening? And if no ones listening, why do we bother doing those strange things. We rely on superstitions because we’re...
