February 2012
9 posts
Anonymous asked: If you could be any batman villain who would you be?
“And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn’t really change the fact that you have what you have.”
- The Perks of Being A Wallflower
“I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.”
- John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
January 2012
30 posts
“All I’d ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.”
- Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.”
- Khalil Gibran
“We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?”
- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“My darling girl, when are you going to realize that being normal is not necessarily a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage.”
- Alice Hoffman
“It’s easy to remember only the good parts of people if you never see them. Real people are much more complicated.”
- Cynthia Lord, Touch Blue
“I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”
- Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
What good are the gifts
and of what use is the cheer
if you are not here?
“The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.”
- Philip Roth, The Dying Animal
“You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”
- Nietzsche
December 2011
87 posts
“I am the crack in that pane of glass that distorts the light into splintering fragments, I am that hollow space inside an empty wooden box, I am the touch of wind against the back of your neck, I am the rain trickling slowly down a dwindling fickle road, I am the dust covering an old photo from many years ago, I am that moment before you sleep when you think about all the bad things, I am that...
“we’re like blown clouds being pulled or drawn far and away across worlds beyond our divided selves”
- Alec Finlay
“The mouth is made for communication, and nothing is more articulate than a kiss.”
- Jarod Kintz, It Occurred To Me
“El hombre es un lobo para el hombre.”
- Leviatán, Thomas Hobbes
“Love, being in love, isn’t a constant thing. It doesn’t always flow at the same strength. It’s not always like a river in flood. It’s more like the sea. It has tides, it ebbs and flows. The thing is, when love is real, whether it’s ebbing or flowing, it’s always there, it never goes away. And that’s the only proof you can have that it is real.”
- Aidan Chambers