February 2011
1 post
“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding...”
– Sandi Toksvig (via queen, learninglog) (via frofrofro)
November 2009
1 post
“Lately I feel like somebody made a big mess and I’ve got my mop and I’m mopping...”
– President Obama via Reuters (via amazingamanda) (via sunnynsassy) (via fishy) (via quote-book) (via nosuchthing) (via just-dandy)
August 2009
5 posts
“Live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find eternity in each...”
– Henry David Thoreau
July 2009
34 posts
“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world...”
– Alexander Pope
“We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.”
– E.M. Cioran
“I can never read all the books I want;
I can never be all the people I want...”
– Sylvia Plath
“The one charm of the past is that it is the past.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Four or five o’clock. Grey-pink iridescent air like enamel inside a shell. We...”
– Czeslaw Milosz
On arriving in Paris one summer morning in 1931
(via travelhighlights)
“Visiting a new town is like having a conversation. Places ask questions of you...”
– Pico Iyer
Via candids
(via travelhighlights)
Neon Bible by Arcade Fire
“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s...”
– Erica Jong
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”
– Charles Darwin
Anon?
I want to be a lost poem in a stranger’s coat pocket, that conveys the importance of you. I want you to be distant and for me to feel you close. To assure you of my desire, to assure you of dreams. I want all the possibilities of you in writing. I want to give you your reflection, I want your eyes on me, I want to travel to the lightness with you and stay there, and I want everything before...
Noah and the Whale
Shape of My Heart
“Oh, when the world was all covered by snow,
I forgot the colours the grass tend to grow.
Oh, the trees were all leafless and lifeless and black,
And I wondered if the leaves could grow back.
For your heart is like a flower as it grows,
And it’s the rain, not just the sun that helps it bloom.
And you don’t know how it feels to be alive,
Until you know how it feels to...
Bookcase/Staircase →
“But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever...”
– Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
“Sometimes someone says something really small and it just fits into this empty...”
– Angela, My so called life (via sophiejade)
We are amazing beings. →