December 2011
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“Our mistakes don’t make or break us. If we are lucky, they simply reveal who we...”
– Donn Moomaw (via nagging)
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“Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer,...”
– Margaret Weis (via venebelle)
Sooooooo who else is going to be on tumblr during the new year celebrations?
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“Procrastination is not the problem. It is the solution. It is the universe’s way...”
– Ellen (via nuper)
“I like to live in the sound of water, in the feel of the mountain air. A sharp...”
– William Stafford (via slekes)
“That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone....”
– Sarah Dessen (via xenium)
“I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting,...”
– Donald Miller (via slekes)
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Chocolates & Cigarettes // Angus & Julia...
“Except I think it feels more like an empty stomach than a broken heart. An...”
– Richard Laymon (via 99lions)
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“She didn’t like to be talked about. Equally, she didn’t like not to be talked...”
– The Children’s Book, A.S. Byatt (via danseurs)
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“I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I...”
– Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (via danseurs)
“Nothing in this world is hidden forever. The gold which has lain for centuries...”
– Wilkie Collins (via slekes)
“It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes...”
– Dr. Seuss (How The Grinch Stole Christmas)
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“It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for...”
– Anne Brontë (via plimi)
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“There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison...”
– Alexandre Dumas (via corona-borealis)
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delicate words and phrases →
“I like drinking coffee alone and reading alone. I like riding the bus alone and...”
– (via overboarddd)
“Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the Earth are never alone or...”
– Rachel Carson (via vashti)
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“It’s everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so—I don’t know—not wrong,...”
– J.D. Salinger (via venebelle)
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Ya’aburnee يقبرني - Both morbid and beautiful at once, this incantatory word means “You bury me,” a declaration of one’s hope that they’ll die before another person because of how difficult it would be to live without them.
“Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the...”
– Dean Koontz, Midnight (via vashti)
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“But don’t forget who you really are. And I’m not talking about your so-called...”
– Louis Sachar (via venebelle)
“We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of...”
– Dean Koontz, from Life Expectancy (with thanks to whiskeyriver)
“I’ve been walked on, used and forgotten and I don’t regret one moment of it...”
– Unknown (via suavium)
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“People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young...”
– Nicholas Sparks, Nights in Rodanthe (via vialetto)
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“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a...”
– Tupac Shakur (via virit)