February 2012
67 posts
“You don’t die. You just… get really angry and then after you’re angry you hurt a...”
– Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta (via lostinthesounds)
“For all these years, you’ve lived under the illusion that, somehow, you made it...”
– Rachel Reiland (via shetakesflight)
“We take action when we have the honesty to admit that things are still broken,...”
– oh my goodness. (via insight-inspiration)
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“Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated)
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“And it’s hard and it hurts and it takes knowledge you don’t have but will when...”
– Andrea’s Voie by Doris Smeltzer, Andrea Lynn Smeltzer and Carolyn Costin (via lostinthesounds)
“And perhaps there is a limit to the grieving that the human heart can do. As...”
– Sarah Waters (The Little Stranger) (via larmoyante)
“I had to keep at the forefront of my mind the reasons I wanted to recover so...”
– Marya Hornbacher (via daylight-dreams)
this.
(via insight-inspiration)
“I have never before found graveyards eerie, or particularly depressing. I like...”
– The Legacy by Katherine Webb (via scribbles-and-wanderlust)
“So yes, I laughed. I laughed at the pain and the futility and the frustration...”
– I Wrote This For You: The Upsidedowness of Everything (via creatingaquietmind)
“I was on a mission. I had to learn to comfort myself, to see what others saw in...”
– Stephanie Klein (Straight up and Dirty) (via creatingaquietmind)
“The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the...”
– Don Miguel Ruiz (via a-recovered-life)
“My worst days in recovery are better than the best days in relapse.”
– Kate Le Page (via recover-ed)
“I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver,...”
– Stephen Fry (via troubled)
“But once in a while people push on to something better. Something found just...”
– Lucas Scott (OTH)
“I don’t want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer....”
– Siri Hustvedt, What I Loved (via larmoyante)
“It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache...”
– Oriah Mountain Dreame (via slekes)
“Not everybody leaves. Some stay. Some are worth the poems, and the pain and the...”
– Joshua Bennett via poeticartillery (via petitpoulailler)
“Speak quietly to yourself & promise there will be better days. whisper...”
– Mary Anne Radmacher (via myquotelibrary)
“Why? Because He loves you, because He loves you - that’s why. We’ve got this...”
– Matt Chandler (via k-aufdie)
“If you were one of those people who are affected by someone thinking of you, you...”
– Franz Kafka (via slekes)
“This is our purpose: to make life as meaningful as possible this life that has...”
– Oswald Spengler (via hope-lives-on)
“The size of Earth, in comparison to… let’s say, the sun… is equivalent to the...”
– THIS (via lifeasadaydream)
“It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for...”
– How to Be Good by Nick Hornby (via lostinthesounds)
“The few people who have knocked down the walls you built up and whom you trusted...”
– (via theflightout)
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“Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything is Illuminated)
“People soften by the forced reflection that comes with loss.”
– Into the Wild - Christopher McCandless (via julie911)
“Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have travelled, each meal...”
– Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri (via lostinthesounds)
“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall...”
– Richard Siken (via slekes)
“Bad things happen. Trust that good things happen, too.”
– I Wrote This For You: The Crazy Place (via kari-shma)
“Some days, it’s not about passion and courage. It’s not about heroism and drama....”
– Jack Ricchiuto (via julie911)
Renewable
tylerknott:
I woke up this morning terrified with a thought: What if words are not a renewable resource? What if I am using too many of mine on others when they belong to you? What if we can run out one day and there are still so many things I’ve not yet said to you? “You won’t love,” you whispered, “And if you did, it would be ok. I know what you are saying when you’re not speaking at all.”...
“There are people we treat wrong and later we’re prepared to treat other people...”
– Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld (via lostinthesounds)
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“We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of...”
– Ellen Goodman
“I’m grateful for anything that reminds me of what’s possible in this life. Books...”
– Johnathon Safran Foer (via justalittlegreen)
“The deeper your scars, the more room there is to fill them up with love. Don’t...”
– Daniel Chidiak (via justalittlegreen)
“And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds,...”
– Tiffanie DeBartolo (via myquotelibrary)
“There are times when it is hard to believe in the future, when we are...”
– Ardis Whitman (via julie911)
“…if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always...”
– Richard Yates (Revolutionary Road)