warm and vunerable

"A sigh isn’t just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can."

28-mm — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:53:27 -0700

“A sigh isn’t just a sigh. We inhale the world and breathe out meaning. While we can. While we can.”

- Salman Rushdie, The Moor’s Last Sigh (via violentwavesofemotion)

"Don’t observe yourself too closely. Don’t be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you;..."

28-mm — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:53:07 -0700

“Don’t observe yourself too closely. Don’t be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen.”

- Rainer Maria Rilke, from Letters To A Young Poet (via violentwavesofemotion)

"Failure is everywhere. It’s just that most of the time we’d rather avoid confronting that fact."

28-mm — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:16:50 -0700

“Failure is everywhere. It’s just that most of the time we’d rather avoid confronting that fact.”

- Oliver Burkeman, Happiness Is a Glass Half Empty (via larmoyante)

likeafieldmouse: Nicholas Ballesteros

28-mm — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:16:23 -0700

likeafieldmouse:

Nicholas Ballesteros

"I don’t get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say."

28-mm — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:00:32 -0700

“I don’t get nearly enough credit in life for the things I manage not to say.”

- Meg Rosoff, How I Live Now (via larmoyante)

"Somewhere in his body—perhaps in the marrow of his bones—he would continue to feel her absence."

28-mm — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:56:14 -0700

“Somewhere in his body—perhaps in the marrow of his bones—he would continue to feel her absence.”

- Haruki Murakami, Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories (via larmoyante)

"The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity … . I was a..."

28-mm — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:55:44 -0700

““The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity … . I was a painter before I was a writer … and a painter never wants the subject right under his nose; he wants to stand back and study a landscape with half-closed eyes.””

- Isak Dinesen (via theparisreview)

"For people who can’t let go of received ideas of what constitutes good writing, reading this novel..."

28-mm — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:55:04 -0700

“For people who can’t let go of received ideas of what constitutes good writing, reading this novel will be a nightmare, but they will also miss the point: the language is part of Lin’s ongoing question of what is “speech” and what is “writing,” what is sobriety and what is intoxication, and what is digital and what is real.”

- Emily Witt, nailing it. (via emilygould)

likeafieldmouse: Uta Barth - In Passing (1995-7)

28-mm — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:54:30 -0700

likeafieldmouse:

Uta Barth - In Passing (1995-7)

"It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment."

28-mm — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:54:08 -0700

“It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”

- Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude (via larmoyante)

"We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But..."

28-mm — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:53:20 -0700

“We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.”

- Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (via lunaoki)

"She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to..."

28-mm — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:52:30 -0700

“She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

- Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowell (via onlytheilluminatisurvive)

"Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don’t work."

28-mm — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:47:55 -0700

“Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don’t work.”

- James Frey, A Million Little Pieces (via larmoyante)

"To know I was beautiful in his eyes made me beautiful."

28-mm — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:47:45 -0700

“To know I was beautiful in his eyes made me beautiful.”

- Janet Fitch, White Oleander (via larmoyante)

"in life one is always balancing like we juggle our mothers against our fathers or one..."

28-mm — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:13:49 -0700

“

in life
one is always
balancing

like we juggle our mothers
against our fathers

or one teacher
against another
(only to balance our grade average)

3 grains of salt
to one ounce truth

our sweet black essence
or the funky honkies down the street

and lately i’ve begun wondering
if you’re trying to tell me something

we used to talk all night
and do things alone together

and i’ve begun

(as a reaction to a feeling)
to balance
the pleasure of loneliness
against the pain
of loving you.

”

- Nikki Giovanni, “Balances” (via larmoyante)

"Time and space are not conditions in which we live, but modes by which we think."

28-mm — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:50:09 -0700

“Time and space are not conditions in which we live, but modes by which we think.”

- Albert Einstein (via lonehands)

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing,..."

28-mm — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:49:53 -0700

““Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and you watch and you work: you don’t give up.””

- Anne Lamott (via likeafieldmouse)

"This is all we need. Couple of smokes, a cup of coffee and a little bit of conversation. You and me..."

28-mm — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:10:19 -0700

“This is all we need. Couple of smokes, a cup of coffee and a little bit of conversation. You and me and five bucks.”

- Ethan Hawke in Reality Bites (1994)

"I left you because I knew I could never change you. You would stand in the room so still sometimes,..."

28-mm — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:40:12 -0700

“I left you because I knew I could never change you. You would stand in the room so still sometimes, as if the greatest betrayal of yourself would be to reveal one more inch of your character.”

- Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (via larmoyante)

"Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created."

28-mm — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:39:54 -0700

“Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created.”

- Yoko Ono, 1977 (via lonehands)