May 2013
91 posts
“There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human...”
– Diana Cortes (via youngfolksociety)
“I always feel this pressure of being a strong and independent icon of womanhood,...”
– Julie Delpy, Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays (via thatkindofwoman)
“I’m like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.”
– Samuel Beckett (via thatkindofwoman)
“If two points are destined to touch, the universe will always find a way to make...”
– from Touch (via thatkindofwoman)
“Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you...”
– Lillian Hellman (via outcamethesun)
“It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to...”
– Henry Rollins (via middlenameconfused)
“Because when you’re wildly in love with someone, it changes everything.”
– Francis Chan (via billowy)
azaleadalen:
“But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o’clock in the morning.”
-Haruki...
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when...”
– Charles Kingsley (via thatkindofwoman)
“Someday, I would like to go home. The exact location of this place, I don’t...”
– Henry Rollins (via middlenameconfused)
azaleadalen:
“You cannot live when you are untouchable. Life is vulnerability.”
-Édouard Boubat, 1958
“It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical...”
– Naguib Mahfouz (via awelltraveledwoman)
“Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time...”
– Haruki Murakami, The Wind Up Bird Chronicle (via sorakeem)
“It isn’t good to hold on too hard to the past. You can’t spend your whole life...”
– Jim Butcher (via middlenameconfused)
“Much that may one day be possible can already be prepared by the solitary...”
– Love the Solitude.
Worpswede, July 16, 1903
Letters to a young poet
(via awelltraveledwoman)
Chloe: “Stop worrying about your identity and... →
azaleadalen:
“Stop worrying about your identity and concern yourself with the people you care about, ideas that matter to you, beliefs you can stand by, tickets you can run on. Intelligent humans make those choices with their brain and hearts and they make them alone. The world does not deliver meaning to you….
“Run away to Barcelona. Eat milk chocolate magnum bars and drink cheap champagne....”
– (via thatkindofwoman)
azaleadalen:
“In idleness there is a perpetual despair.”
-Thomas Carlyle
“Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.”
– Ludwig Börne (via quotefullness) (via ginandbird, apoplecticskeptic) (via aouieoe) (via mallorylucille)
“Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you...”
– Lillian Hellman (via creatingaquietmind)
“We still hadn’t learned, though, that growing up is all about getting hurt. And...”
– Jim Butcher (via middlenameconfused)
“We are the puzzle pieces who seldom fit with other puzzle pieces. We inhabit...”
– Sasha Cagan (via middlenameconfused)
“Stop comparing where you’re at with where everyone else is. It doesn’t move you...”
– Daniell Koepke (via hellanne)
azaleadalen:
“In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it…It protects me, but at the same time steadily cuts away at me from the inside.”
“Be a good human being, a warm-hearted affectionate person. That is my...”
– Dalai Lama (via fire-onthe-mountain)
“Every so often a disappearance is in order. A vanishing. A checking out. An...”
– John A. Murray (via middlenameconfused)
“Nothing can wear you out like caring about people.”
– S.E. Hinton, That Was Then, This Is Now (via cinisterr)
Chloe: “The best sentences orient us, like stars... →
azaleadalen:
“The best sentences orient us, like stars in the sky, like landmarks on a trail. They remain the test, whether or not to read something. The most compelling narrative, expressed in sentences with which I have no chemical reaction, or an adverse one, leaves me cold. In fiction, plenty do the job of…
“Marry your best friend. I do not say that lightly. Really, truly find the...”
– N (via beatboxgoesthump)
“In order to change an existing paradigm, you do not struggle to try and change...”
– R. Buckminster Fuller (via youngfolksociety)
“I still catch myself feeling sad about things that don’t matter anymore.”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via thatkindofwoman)
“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a...”
– Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (via thatkindofwoman)
“Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be...”
– Scott Westerfeld (via thatkindofwoman)
“Growing up is all about getting hurt. And then getting over it. You hurt. You...”
– Jim Butcher (via middlenameconfused)
“Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you...”
– Alan Cohen (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
“Don’t move to New York. Read more Joan Didion.
If you’ve never considered that...”
– Embroidered Throw Pillows: advice for young women
(via dialecstatic)
“There is no beauty without some strangeness.”
– Edgar Allan Poe (via sorakeem)
