February 2010
awaiting dawn & dusk: the sun set it on to the sky →
we always love the people who can teach us, who can show us the pieces of ourselves we could never have found without them. do you remember when we slept on the ledge of your window? a sill that the sun watched us from until it was only gold dust sewn into the dusk. your hands found the tangles in…
“Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My God, do you learn.”
– ~ C.S. Lewis (via psychotherapy) (via gatekeeper)
“But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running...”
– James Joyce, from “Araby” (via paintedfictions)
I think that with this album, I’ve been pretty fascinated with fairytales vs. reality. & when we’re a little girl, how our parents teach us that, ya know, they read us storybooks , & we think that prince charming is gunna come along, & he’s gunna have a white cape on, & he’s gunna put us on a pedestal, & the bad guy always wears black, & we always know who the bad guy is,...
“I didn’t look back. I couldn’t. Such is life, imaginary or otherwise: a...”
– Sol Luckman (via fatalistichues)
“Things are neither good or bad but thinking makes them so”
– Shakespeare (via nostalgicdreams) (via longlivethequeen)
“It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In...”
– Rose Kennedy (via city-night-lights) (via heartwarming) (via eemmaa)
“We’re all a little broken. We’re all a little twisted. We’re all less than we...”
– Conor Oberst (via cassadaga) (via fuckyeahconor) (via hazelweatherfield) (via apassingfeeling)
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom...”
– Anaïs Nin (via kari-shma)
“I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together...”
– Margaret Mitchell
(via kari-shma)
And we drove on, near strangers with a common bond, potential friendships opening like seeds in the electric light of the city.
-nightmare brunette
“Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a...”
– ~ The History of Love (via gatekeeper) (via loveisjustlove) (via eemmaa)
“I’m with them because, despite everything, I still love them. And while you...”
– i wrote this for you (via fuckyeahhlove)
“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did...”
– Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes) (via justbesplendid)
“the world breaks us all. afterward, some are stronger at the broken places”
–
ernest hemmingway
(via scribble-scribbles)
