February 2012
33 posts
We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really...
– David Lynch
You boys know what tropism is, it’s what makes a plant grow toward the light....
– Tobias Wolff, Old School (via crashinglybeautiful)
It’s a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won’t...
– Steven Galloway, The Cellist of Sarajevo (via devilduck)
There is, in the act of love, a great resemblance to torture or to a surgical...
– Charles Baudelaire
I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern...
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via liquidnight)
Our lives are quiet. We like to be disturbed by delight.
– Sophia Grojsman (via devilduck)
Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity—they had no...
– Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove (via devilduck)
A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when...
– George Orwell (via nevver)
January 2012
27 posts
If you wanted, for you I would be nothing, or merely a trace.
– Nadja to André Breton, 1928 (via frenchtwist)
Reality doesn’t impress me.
– Anais Nin (via nevver)
I still don’t know why I didn’t manage to keep a better footing on the slippery...
– Einar Mar Gudmundsson, Angels of the Universe (via devilduck)
But such is human life. Here today and gone tomorrow. A dream—a shadow—a ripple...
– Mark Twain, in a letter to the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, 1866. (via devilduck)