February 2012
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My soul today is sad to the very marrow of its bones. Everything hurts me —...
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet, trans. Margaret Jull Costa (via atramentum)
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There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take...
– Dianne Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale (via obscyr)
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To worry was as bad as to be afraid. It simply made things more difficult.
– Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls (via chewyourlipstick)
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I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
– Woody Allen (via dauthius)
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I’ve read books, watched movies, and never have I been warned of such a feeling,...
– February twentieth, twenty twelve (via sweetannasour)
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When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But...
– Lemony Snicket (via infinitives)
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I did not know what to say to him. I felt awkward and blundering. I did not know...
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry | The Little Prince (via girlinlondon)
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I know what it’s like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit...
– Susana Kaysen, (Girl, Interrupted)
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I’m attracted to the idea of drowning. Or rather the idea of jumping off and...
– Florence Welch (via anonymousparty)
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It’s dark.
You exhale a fist of memory.
I love you like weathering wood
in a...
– James L. White, from “Lying in Sadness” in The Salt Ecstasies (via proustitute)
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The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you...
– Chuck Palahniuk (via infinitives)
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“You are the trip I did not take; you are the pearls I could not buy;
you are...
– Anne Campbell (via sweetannasour)
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someone should hex me so that I can stay at home
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I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human...
– Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me (via obscyr)
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Everything that ever caused a tear to trickle down my cheek, I run away and hide...
– Unknown (via danseurs)
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I felt that i was leaving part of myself behind, and that wherever I went...
– Evelyn Waugh (via obscyr)
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One day you fall for this boy. And he touches you with his fingers. And he burns...
– The Tracey Fragments (via formallymaura)
jazzygrandpa:
my voice is girly when I talk to strangers but when I’m with friends I turn into morgan freeman
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The sadness will last forever.
– Suicide note of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890)