January 2009
“Think, just think about you, you are only twenty (happy belated birthday by the...”
– an online post via livejournal. i wish i could find the original author again. (via outandabout)
“We are the daughters of feminists who said “You can be anything,” and we heard...”
– (via outlaws)
“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
Where’s home...”
– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (via outlaws)
“The whole world, myself included, seem to have one thing in common: We’re just a...”
– Andrew McMahon (via outlaws)
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used...”
– Arundhati Roy (via outlaws)
“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your...”
– (via outlaws)
“They held each other and kissed and pushed each others’ darkness into the...”
“When I was 5 years old, my mom always told me that happiness was the key to...”
25 Banned Books That You Should Read Today →
This list summarizes 25 of the most controversial banned books and tells you where you can read them all for free online. Exercise your rights by reading at least one of these banned books today!
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
After a while, you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and changing a soul. You begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts and presents aren’t promises. And you start to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes open. You learn to build all your roads on today because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain. After a while, you learn that even sunshine burns if you get too...
“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
Ray...”
WatchThis is a letter to Stanko I created last year for our 8th anniversary!:)
William Butler Yeats (1893)
When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim Soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing...
Live like you were dying! Lyrics
He said: “I was in my early forties, “With a lot of life before me, “An’ a moment came that stopped me on a dime. “I spent most of the next days, “Looking at the x-rays, “An’ talking ‘bout the options an’ talkin’ ‘bout sweet time.” I asked him when it sank in, That this might really be the real end? How’s it hit you when you get...
Things to do before I die...
Swim with a dolphin.
Have your portrait painted.
Spend a whole day eating junk food without feeling guilty.
Tell someone the story of your life, sparing no details.
Make love on a forest floor.
Make love on a train.
Be a member of the audience in a TV show.
Send a message in a bottle.
Ride a camel into the desert.
Plant a tree.
Learn to ballroom dance properly.
Write the novel...
“Ich nehme mir die Freiheit, mich zu vergessen. Übermorgen will ich wieder bei...”
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What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why...
I remember studying this poem in my literature class and I just loved it:
What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why, I have forgotten, and what arms have lain Under my head till morning; but the rain Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh Upon the glass and listen for reply, And in my heart there stirs a quiet pain For unremembered lads that not again Will turn to me at midnight...
"I Am Not Yours"
I am not yours, not lost in you,
Not lost, although I long to be
Lost as a candle lit at noon,
Lost as a snowflake in the sea.
You love me, and I find you still
A spirit beautiful and bright,
Yet I am I, who long to be
Lost as a light is lost in light.
Oh plunge me deep in love — put out
My senses, leave me deaf and blind,
Swept by the tempest of your love,
A taper in a rushing wind....
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"People are strange, when you are a stranger....
Faces come out in the rain, when you’re strange……”
Written by Toni and me for one special friend,whose identity I will keep private:)
I am scared that this might be a good bye. I would have been even more terrified if there was never a hello. Today is your birthday and it is just few days away from graduation. Toni and I were wondering what to wish you, but everything...
When You Come
When You Come When you come to me, unbidden, Beckoning me To long-ago rooms, Where memories lie. Offering me, as to a child, an attic, Gatherings of days too few. Baubles of stolen kisses. Trinkets of borrowed loves. Trunks of secret words, I CRY. Maya Angelou
There is something powerful in the first sentence!
Laura: I’m too tired not to be with you. Rob: What, so if you had a bit more energy we’d stay split up, but things being as they are, with you being wiped out and all, you want to get back together? Is that it? Laura: Yeah. (High Fidelity by Nick Hornby)
“Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was...”
– Douglas Coupland
WOW this is me! This description left me...
She worried way too much what people thought of her, wore her heart on her sleeve, expected too much from people, and got hurt too easily. She kept people’s secrets like a champ, but told her own too fast. She expected the world not to cheat her and was always surprised when it did. -rob sheffield
Invisible Monsters
No matter how careful you are, there`s going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn`t experience it all. There`s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should`ve been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That`s how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. Chuck Palahniuk
Public self, Private self, Secret self
There’s a model for the “self” that has as much to do with the way we misunderstand each other as it does with what we understand: each person is assumed to have a public life, a private life, and a secret life. And the relation between them is assumed to be that the public stands before the private, as the private stands before the secret, each masking the ones behind from...
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“We need much bigger pockets, I thought as I lay in bed, counting off the seven minutes that it takes a normal person to fall asleep. We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families, and our friends, and even the people who aren’t on our lists, people we’ve never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe. […] But...