February 2012
341 posts
“We are the people of the book. We love our books. We fill our houses with books....”
– Cory Doctorow (via obdormio)
“The book-shelves were her darling treasure,
She rarely seemed the time to...”
– Charlotte Brontë, Mementos (via enchants)
“The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are...”
– Lemony Snicket (via forbiddenalleys)
lypophrenia: a feeling of sadness seemingly without a cause
drapetomania: an overwhelming urge to run away
escapism: a mental desire to retreat from unpleasant realities through fantasy
wanderlust: a desire to travel, to understand one’s very existence
dysania: the state of finding it difficult to get out of bed in the morning
sanctuary: a small safe place in a troubling world
...
“She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer (via youarejeff)
Words to keep inside your pocket:
Quiescent - a quiet, soft-spoken soul.
Chimerical - merely imaginary; fanciful.
Susurrus - a whispering or rustling sound.
Raconteur - one who excels in story-telling.
Clinquant - glittering; tinsel-like.
Aubade - a song greeting the dawn.
Ephemeral - lasting a very short time.
Sempiternal - everlasting; eternal.
Euphonious - pleasing; sweet in...
“I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on...”
– Harun Yahya (via 1881-1943)
“The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the...”
– Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus (via venuschild)
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Thinking about deleting my tumblr…
: amongthedays: Words are such sensitive little... →
amongthedays:
Words are such sensitive little creatures, not to mention self-centered. They actually believe I have been ignoring them so that I can brood without interruption. I found them crowded around my bed, ink stains everywhere. Permanent. Unapologetic. I flicked them off, one by one,…
“The relationship of a girl and her favorite novel can be complex indeed.”
– Andrea Cremer (via amandaonwriting)
“There are books so alive that you’re always afraid that while you weren’t...”
– Marina Tsvetaeva (via ilovereadingandwriting)
“Grammar is the difference between knowing your shit and knowing you’re shit.”
– My flammable roommate’s fabulous writing professor (via ettudis)
suzywire:
isn’t it strange how attractive people are really just a nice-looking arrangement of atoms
like
damn you have a great deoxyribonucleic acid arrangement
“Show emotion and you are too fragile, untrustworthy, and incapable for the...”
– Female Candidates and the Emotion Doublebind (via suzywire)
“No matter how hard she tried to concentrate on something else, to pass the time...”
– Stieg Larsson (via misswallflower)
“When I see an old movie, like from the ’40s or ’50s or ’60s, the people look so...”
– Rudy Rucker (via mirroir)
“… It is unbearably painful
For the soul to love silently.”
– Anna Akhmatova, from The Complete Poems (translated by Judith Hemschemeyer)
“It’s sad to fall asleep. It separates people. Even when you’re sleeping...”
– Breathless (1960)
“Craters. Burned houses. Mutilated bodies. Women weeping for children and...”
– Marie Colvin, Sunday Times journalist. R.I.P 1956-2012. (via winterbabywritings)
teascoop:
Clair De Lune - Debussy
“I must be a mermaid. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow...”
– Anaïs Nin (via thechocolatebrigade)