April 2010
excerpt from my moleskine
But if this really is the death-life,
And you are simply a wandering flower,
Just know I’ll be looking far for you
With each and every of my dying hour.
“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonley again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.”
—Betty Smith (via planetickets) (via gelalalove)
“Can you tell me what time you are going to bed tonight? I need to know when I have to stop calling you.”
—(via clientsfromhell) (via getyourjacketon)
March 2010
Play
The Mixed Tape
Jack's Mannequin
The Mixed Tape // Jack’s Mannequin
As I’m swimming through the stereo, I’m writing you a symphony of sound
Where are you now?
“It’s weird how you say that you hate the boy who broke your heart yet when he runs back to you, your arms are wide open.”
—(via raindropsonredroses) (via infectedzombies) (via mynameisloud) (via bumblebee12)
“The worst part about being rejected after a while is that it’s not like in a bar where you talk to someone for two seconds and then they walk away. It’s that this person has had the chance to know you, and what they are rejecting is all of you. That’s what sucks.”
—Alice (via tothepersoninthebelljar)
“It’s okay to kiss a fool. It’s okay to let a fool kiss you, but never let a kiss fool you.”
—(via raindropsonredroses) (via mynameisloud) (via bumblebee12)
“I started to cry, and I squeezed her as tightly as I could. Her shoulder was getting wet and I thought, Maybe it’s true that you can use up all of your tears. Maybe Grandma’s right about that. It was nice to think about, because what I wanted was to be empty.”
—Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via arianesantos)
“Dreams do come true if you keep believing in yourself. Anything is possible.”
—Jennifer Capriati (via kari-shma)
“I resent the sacrilege Nicholas Sparks commits by even mentioning himself in the same sentence as Cormac McCarthy. I would not even allow him to say “Hello, bookstore? This is Nicholas Sparks. Could you send over the new Cormac McCarthy novel?” He should show respect by ordering anonymously.”
—Roger Ebert, on Nicholas Sparks’ claim that he is a greater novelist than Cormac McCarthy. (via leitch) (via meredithbklyn) (via allthingsalishan)
“So when he said, “I’m finished. I hope you understand,” I said, “I understand,” even though I didn’t understand. I never went to find him on the observation deck of the Empire State Building, because I was happier believing he was there than finding out for sure.”
—Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via arianesantos)
“Chances are I’ll never get a moment like this again. So here’s everything I wanted to tell you. No one has ever gotten me like you. I’ve never found anyone who makes me laugh like you. You’re the one person who I can honestly see myself happy with. The definition of love to me is you.”
—(via poeticheartache)
“I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”
—Kurt Cobain (via iamtea-rriffic) (via quote-book)
“I often wonder whether men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.”
—Katharine Hepburn (via anditslove)
“We are all a little damaged. Some of us hide it better than others, but on some level, we are all torn up. We take it out on others & beat through life carrying it all & we will end up damaging someone else & most of the time, we won’t even notice or bother to care because we are too busy with our little disaster we call life.”
—(via poeticheartache)
“(716): as nice as a boyfriend sounds, a relationship would require morals and self-restraint - both fields in which i lack.
(1-716): momma always taught us never to change for a boy..” —
(1-716): momma always taught us never to change for a boy..” —
Mama’s always right dontcha know?
(via pacificocean)
“Did it ever occur to you that you’re so caught up in trying to make the right choice that you’ve never stopped to consider the possibility that there may not be a right choice, or a wrong choice, just a bunch of choices?”
—Dawson’s Creek (via weepingangel25) (via fyeahdawsonscreek)
“Those days that I tried to be the little girl I was supposed to be drained me. I went home at night and cried for hours because so many people in my life expecting me to be a certain way was too much pressure, as if I’d been held against a wall and interrogated for hours, asked questions I couldn’t answer any longer.”
— Prozac Nation (via principessa)
“Why does the rest of the world put up with the hypocrisy, the need to put a happy face on sorrow, the need to keep on keeping on?… I don’t know the answer, I know only that I can’t.”
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— Elizabeth Wurtzel
(via earlyfrost)
“…in my case the crisis-level hysteria is an all-too-recurring theme. The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence.”
—Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel (via basementlily)
“This is why you feel terrible. You think it’s because you feel everything too much. But it’s not. It’s that you don’t feel things enough… So you overreact to nothing, but that overreacting is not feeling- it’s reacting.”
—Elizabeth Wurtzel. More, Now, Again (via starryeyeddoll)
“I don’t want to feel better in the morning, how that way of life is wearing me out; that what I really want is not to feel this way in the first place.”
—Elizabeth Wurtzel (via scruncheduponasaturdaynight)
“Sometimes I feel like I am an old person trapped in a young person’s body. I’m boring. I go to movies. I read. That’s about it.”
—(via chocolate-cigarettes)
“Look, my point is is that I don’t think that everybody meets the love of their life when they’re a teenager. Or when they’re 25. Or even when they’re 35. But that doesn’t mean that you stop looking and hoping. You know, ‘cause you will meet that person, and when you do, I guess you know it.”
—(via fyeahdawsonscreek)
“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
—the kite runner (via onlywordsjustwords)
“There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.”
—L.M. Montgomery (via inwaves)
@pacificocean
Oh man, that’s what I’ve been doing. I love Dawson’s Creek!
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
—E.E. Cummings (via happythings) (via widesmile) (via arianesantos)
“Look, my point is is that I don’t think that everybody meets the love of their life when they’re a teenager. Or when they’re 25. Or even when they’re 35. But that doesn’t mean that you stop looking and hoping. You know, ‘cause you will meet that person, and when you do, I guess you know it.”
—(via fyeahdawsonscreek)
“This is how it works, you’re young until you’re not, you love until you don’t, you try until you can’t, you laugh until you cry, you cry until you laugh and everyone must breathe until their dying breath. No, this is how it works. You peer inside yourself, you take the things you like and try to love the things you took and then you take that love you made and stick it into someone else’s heart, pumping someone else’s blood and walking arm in arm. You hope it don’t get harmed, but even if it does, you’ll just do it all again.”
—(via poeticheartache)
