February 2012
51 posts
“That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.”
– John Green (via saddest-summer)
“I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you — especially when you are...”
– Charlotte Brontë
“I shall not exist if you do not imagine me.”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (via galakospeculoos)
“Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.”
– Edith Wharton, The Touchstone
“Getting what you want is just as difficult as not getting what you want. Because...”
– David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility (via durianquotes)
“Let us stifle under mud at the pond’s edge
and affirm that it is fitting
and...”
– Donald Hall, from “Affirmation” (via proustitute)
“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, ‘It might have been.’”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle (via durianquotes)
“We are so used to releasing words, we don’t know what to do with them if they...”
– David Levithan, The Realm of Possibility (via bookmania)
“I am only responsible for my own heart. You offered yours up for the smashing,...”
– Anaïs Nin (via durianquotes)
“Some times people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make...”
– The Fault in Our Stars, John Green (via alisonclare31)
“Is there not in every coup de foudre a certain wilful exaggeration of the...”
– Alain de Botton, Essays in Love (via turningandturning)
“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.”
– David Foster Wallace (via 4mbivalent)
“The flesh is easy to satisfy. It’s the heart that is insatiable, the heart that...”
– Irène Némirovsky, Fire in the Blood, p. 127 (via intracoastal-wanderings)
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“Maybe there’s something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love,...”
– John Green (via kevinidentity)
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
– Jorge Luis Borges (via assassinsdoitfrombehind)
“Whatever we say
we know there is another
language under this one”
– W. S. Merwin, from “To the Tongue” in Present Company (via proustitute)
“I do not remember what I told you
with your ear in my teeth.”
– Dean Young, from “Selected Recent and New Errors” (via proustitute)
“I liked you from the first. I admire you so much that I think it will be a great...”
– Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady (via bookmania)
“I put out my hand and the dark falls through it”
– W. S. Merwin, from “Before That” (via proustitute)
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It’s a boom time for belles-lettres.
“Where it says snow
read teeth-marks of a virgin
Where it says knife read
you...”
– “errata” by Charles Simic (via imaginationexists)
ABC
I’ll never find out now What A. thought of me. If B. ever forgave me in the end. Why C. pretended everything was fine. What part D. played in E.’s silence. What F. had been expecting, if anything. Why G. forgot when she knew perfectly well. What H. had to hide. What I. wanted to add. If my being around meant anything to J. and K. and the rest of the alphabet.
- Wislawa Szymborska
“There is a time for reciting poems and a time for fists.”
– Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives (via fsgbooks)