February 2012
“When I see an old movie, like from the ’40s or ’50s or ’60s, the people look so...”
– Rudy Rucker (via princess-steppenwolf)
“And yet a woman’s weight is seen by American culture as an outward manifestation...”
– Everybody, Every Body: the Media’s Erasure of Fat Girls (via wewantrevolutiongirlstylenow)
Short Story Number Seven Hundred and Twenty Nine
keremmermutlu:
I know I’m still at school and everything, but I seem to think about the future a lot. I always wonder about us and if we’ll still be best friends in twenty years or something. I hope so. I know it sounds kind of impossible, but I really hope so. I like the idea of us swapping books and records with each other until we grow old. I like the idea that when I can’t sleep I can call...
“Amphetamines are the most American drug. You get so much done. You look...”
– Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk (via thechocolatebrigade)
“Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via in-finitus)
“‘One thing that always worried me,’ she said slowly, smiling at Warren, ‘there...”
– Joyce Carol Oates (via setyourcompass)
“When your mother hits you, do not strike back. When the boys call asking your...”
– “Unsolicited Advice to Adolescent Girls With Crooked Teeth and Pink Hair,” Jeanann Verlee (via wewantrevolutiongirlstylenow)
“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.”
– David Foster Wallace; Infinite Jest
[I’ve posted this before, but since today is his birthday, I’ll re-post it.]
(via wordpainting)
Short Story Number Seven Hundred and Twenty Eight
keremmermutlu:
I’m not going to pretend to be a ghost anymore. I’m going to try and fix myself and forget about you and do something nice for once. I’m not sure if I’m going crazy, but I also really like the idea of sitting in my room and drawing lots of stars all over the walls. I’ll use bright markers that glow in the dark. I’ll draw them until i get tired and then I’ll fall asleep and...
“To get a better idea try this: focus on these words, and whatever you do don’t...”
– House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (via thechocolatebrigade)
“In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third...”
– Jodi Picoult (via inmemoryofmysanity)
“Later — when things happened that they could never have imagined — she wrote him...”
– The History Of Love (via thesuicidediaries)
“I’m trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that’s not easy to do. Millions...”
– Marilyn Monroe (via nagging)
A Collection of Rare and Obscure Words →
Cheiloproclitic - Being attracted to someones lips. Quidnunc - One who always has to know what is going on. Ultracrepidarian - Of one who speaks or offers opinions on matters beyond their knowledge. Apodyopis - The act of mentally undressing someone. Gymnophoria - The sensation that someone is mentally undressing you. Tarantism - The urge to overcome melancholy by dancing. Autolatry - The...
“Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.”
– David Foster Wallace (via thesuicidediaries)
“I like drinking coffee alone and reading alone. I like riding the bus alone and...”
– (via calistralia)
“I do not say ‘goodbye’. I believe that’s one of the bullshittiest words ever...”
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- Will Grayson, Will Grayson
(via abitlovely)
“I’m not fascinated by people who smile all the time. What I find interesting is...”
– Anonymous (via nagging)
Io sono il capitano della mia anima.:... →
sleepingtigers:
Buy me a ring that will turn my finger green so I can imagine our love is a forest -
asdfghjklm:
Buy me a ring that will turn my finger green so I can imagine our love is a forest – because I wanna get lost in you. And I swear I grew like a flower every hour of the…
“i think the idea of a ‘mental health day’ is something completely invented by...”
– David Levithan, Will Grayson, Will Grayson (via dalek-in-heels)
“…and I shambled after as I’ve been doing all my life after people who interest...”
– Jack Kerouac, On the Road (via thesuicidediaries)
“It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last...”
– George Orwell (Down and Out in Paris and London)
“You can trust that caring, as a rule, ends poorly, which is true. Caring doesn’t...”
– Will Grayson, Will Grayson (via abitlovely)
Short Story Number Seven Hundred and Twenty Six
keremmermutlu:
I was looking forward to what we were going to do today. We still didn’t really know each other that well, but I did know that I wanted to be with you and hang out with you. I knew that we didn’t need to do anything too complicated or anything that cost too much money. We could just walk around and look at things together and that would be enough. We could buy a soda and share it...
“AS IF I really regret not getting to grow up and have blood gush out of my...”
– Damned, Chuck Palahniuk (via tanishatetrad)
“When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs...”
– Franz Kafka (via bloodisthenewblackk)
