May 2012
April 2012
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“qWhoever battles monsters should take care not to become a monster too, for if...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good And Evil. (via picalla)
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“Airy foam and fairy form
With white moonlight on her breast,
Fairy form and...”
– Sea Foam, Christine Siebeneck Swayne (via milkwolves)
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“I don’t know, I don’t want to talk as much. It’s nicer to think dear, pretty...”
– L.M. Montgomery (via vashti)
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“It’s unexpectedly painful to have become a pronoun.”
– Robin Black (via amandaonwriting)
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“I don’t suppose I really know you very well - but I know you smell like the...”
– Zelda Fitzgerald, in a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (via daisydandelions)
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kairosclerosis
n. the moment you realize that you’re currently happy—consciously trying to savor the feeling—which prompts your intellect to identify it, pick it apart and put it in context, where it will slowly dissolve until it’s little more than an aftertaste.
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Coming back to Tumblr is like reading a Harry Potter book all over again and feeling like you’re coming home, with the “Leaving Hogwarts” music playing as you depart from reality in the “I totally don’t have anything to do!” train to a good many hours of sweet, addictive fantasy… your parents bidding you goodbye, “there she goes again, off to...
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“Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the...”
– C. S. Lewis (via mirroir)
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(message me - i’m still here, i can talk. i’m unwell though. my heart wilts. i hope none of you have wilting hearts and that you’re very well x)
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Thoughts ~22.04 (accumulated ones, really)
- I’ve been falling asleep everywhere and living life in a haze, falling asleep in every tangible surface you could find. I wish my head would convert everything it touches into a nicely, or oddly shaped pillow. I don’t know what happened today, nor yesterday, and I won’t remember tomorrow. But I remember things that, as pigmented and strong as they are in my memory,...
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“But no one came. Because no one ever does.”
– Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure (via mirroir)
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“I am free and that is why I am lost.”
– Franz Kafka (via seabois)
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“They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate...”
– Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time (via serialstranger)
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“It’s a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we...”
– Donna Tartt (via drowninginadigitalsea)
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“You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don’t even...”
– Oscar Wilde (via vashti)
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“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via vashti) 