September 2009
Stardust
You know when I said I knew little about love? That wasn’t true. I know a lot about love. I’ve seen it, centuries and centuries of it, and it was the only thing that made watching your world bearable. All those wars. Pain, lies, hate… It made me want to turn away and never look down again. But when I see the way that mankind loves… You could search to the furthest reaches...
I will find a clue to you, I will be able to unravel you, pull you between my...
– jeanette winterson
crushes:
A,
I’m all out of midnight phone calls and trying to find the perfect color flowers to be sent to your door. I’m out of throwing letters off fire escapes and drawing a cathedral in the sand. I’m out of spray-painting your name on freeway overpasses. I’m low on cute names given between blankets and 2am. I’ve got no dramatic displays of public affection left. And now everyone else I...
Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual....
– Fight Club (via chapter13) (via crazybeautiful)
Lolita
and I looked and looked at her, and knew as clearly as I know I am to die, that I loved her more than anything else. She was only the faint violet whiff and dead leaf echo of the nymphet I had rolled myself upon with such cries in the past; an echo on the brink of a russet ravine, with a far wood under a white sky, and brown leaves choking the brook, and one last cricket in the crisp weeds…but...
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to...
In the end, you just get tired - tired of the struggle, tired of losing everyone...
– (via makeyoumine)
Walk on water
why should I walk on water when I can stand with both feet on the ground? why should I give you everything when I can keep something for my own? but if I fall, will you be there to catch me? and when I need you, will you still be around? and when you say “so tell me what are friends for?” it doesn’t mean that you’ll always be my friend and when you say “you...