December 2011
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And I want to be held down. I don’t know what to do with the horrifying freedom...
– Clarice Lispector (via misswallflower)
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Stains
tylerknott:
There just is no avoiding it: There will be times in your life where you will be stabbed by someone or something or perhaps the world itself, and when it’s all you can do to keep your eyes open and your breath even, and your legs from giving out from underneath you, your ears will hear nothing but screams of disappointment for bleeding all over the carpet. -Tyler Knott Gregson-
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In some strange way I am not with you, I am against you. We are destined to hold...
– Anais Nin (via sleepingtigers)
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I wanted to write “stay”
on your sides, surround
your bed with oceans
of...
– J. Bradley (via holdonmagnolia)
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the cinnamon peeler's wife: (83) →
clavicola:
Maybe it’d be easier for all of us if we came with an instruction manual to show us when it’s appropriate to cry in front of someone else. I need an oil change every five years or so or else my heart stops ticking on time. A kiss on the neck means self-destruct. Tickle my palms and I’ll start…
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It’s always like this.
I catch their scent and
old feelings come around.
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– Xue Tao, excerpt from Peonies (transl. by Jeanne Larsen)
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Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be...
– bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions (via loveyourchaos)
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Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you,
At incredible speed,...
– John Ashbery (via clavicola)
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