May 2012
47 posts
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“When my heart was broken and I was fifteen, I listened to Lou Reed’s Berlin over and over and walked around a lot in the rain, while my friends followed me looking worried and imploring me not to do anything stupid. Well, stupider than walking in the rain, anyway.”…
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via kari-shma)
“I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted
to lie with my hands turned up and be...”
– Sylvia Plath
“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the...”
– Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (via libraryland)
“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child...”
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (via literaturesluts)
“If you can’t say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me.”
– Gertrude Stein (via loveyourchaos)
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“I have nothing now but praise for my life. I’m not unhappy. I cry a lot...”
– Maurice Sendak (RIP Maurice).
“Here’s what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a...”
– Pat Conroy in My Reading Life (2010)
April 2012
83 posts
“They do not love one another, because they do not love themselves”
– Kurt Vonnegut Jr (Slaughterhouse Five)