February 2012
266 posts
One day you’re going to realise that the young shy girl with tears rolling down her cheeks is too cliche, and you can cry all you like, maybe find that one person to confide your troubles in. But baby even they don’t give a shit. Everyone is self absorbed and only cares about themselves. They will either find you a bore or be secretly pleased in your loneliness, in your sadness. Style...
“This earth will grow cold,
a star among stars
and...”
– Nazim Hikmet, from “On Living,” trans. Mutlu Konuk and Randy Blasing (via proustitute)
“There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do...”
– Neil Gaiman (via rosettes)
“When I missed the South the most, I’d take
to dating one of its sons: gentlemen...”
– Stacey Lynn Brown: When I missed the South the most (via grammatolatry)
“Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes…just be an illusion.”
– Unknown (via kari-shma)
Andrea Gibson
meltwalls:
she was languid on the hillside. breathing in rose petals, letting the bees pollinate. she parted her lips as the stars melted. she drank every last drop of their honey, and felt her insides growing roses the color of night, with thorns like bee stings.
“To have ruined oneself over poetry is an honour.”
-Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of...”
– (via truthspe-king)
“She was only the faint violet whiff and dead leaf echo of the nymphet I had...”
– Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (via wearegonnashine)
13. Stop getting involved in relationships for the wrong reasons.
– Relationships must be chosen wisely. It’s better to be alone than to be in bad company. There’s no need to rush. If something is meant to be, it will happen – in the right time, with the right person, and for the best reason. Fall in love when you’re ready, not when you’re lonely.
“When at last I came upon the right book, the feeling was violent: it blew open a...”
– Nicole Krauss, Great House (via thebookishdark)
Herbs for Protection →
Acacia - Carry the wood as a protective amulet. Angelica - Grow in the garden for protection. Bay Laurel - Wear as an amulet to ward of negativity and evil. Cactus - Fill a jar with cactus spines, rusty nails, old tacks, pins, and needles. Add rue and rosemary leaves to fill the jar, seal tightly, and then bury under your doorstep as a powerful protective device. Celandine - The herb aids in...
sleepinginthesnow:
I truly cannot stand 95 percent of humans.
“I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; it’s loneliness.”
– Heath Ledger (via sorra)
“My fire-eating career came to an end
when I could no longer tell
when to spit...”
– Daphne Gottlieb, why things burn (via grammatolatry)
“He is exactly
the poem
I wanted to write.”
– Mary Oliver, from “White Heron Rises Over Blackwater” (via magicclouds)
“People give flowers as present because flowers contain the true meaning of love....”
– Paulo Coelho (via rosettes)
windandwhale:
“Pale rays of light tiptoed across the waters; and by and by there was to be heard a sound at once the most musical and the most melancholy in the world; the mermaids calling to the moon.”
Peter Pan, by J.M Barrie