February 2012
“If you have no faith in yourself, then have faith in the things you call truth....”
– Patricia A. McKillip, The Riddlemaster of Hed (via jaegerjaques)
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“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via nuaira)
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“When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn’t make the darkness go away....”
– Neil Gaiman (via explaterate)
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“Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. “I’m okay” we say. “I’m...”
– Markus Zusak, The Book Thief (via immortels)
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“You can deal with the brain, as I say; it looks sensible, whereas the heart, the...”
– Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10½ Chapters (via larmoyante)
“It’s because we’re so trapped in our culture, in the being of being human on...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters (via larmoyante)
“I’ve been thinking about you constantly since I left, wondering why the journey...”
– Nicholas Sparks, Nights In Rodanthe (via ophidiophobic)
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“Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the...”
– Stephen King (via matrem)
“The underlying bureaucratic key is the ability to deal with boredom…To breathe,...”
– David Foster Wallace, The Pale King (via millionsmillions)
“Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert (via acraeus)
“And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien (via suavium)
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“Things don’t go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up....”
– Charlie Jones (via 99lions)
“What did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via cavum)
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“Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end...”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (via larmoyante)
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“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into...”
– Elie Wiesel (via explaterate)
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“Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end...”
– Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (via larmoyante)
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“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via -bookworm)
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“Maybe you don’t go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via thenocturnals)
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“I feel so bad because my bright eyes always give people reasons to love me, and...”
– Unknown (via venebelle)
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The following is a conversation i overheard between a group of 7th graders at my school:
Girl #1: i would make a tumblr, but i think its too full of hipsters
Girl #2: yeah, i know. I’m at that point where im trying to figure out if im mainstream or not.
“My stomach gets that hollowed-out feeling. It’s amazing how words can do that,...”
– Lauren Oliver (via tantum)
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“The saddest people I’ve ever met in life are the ones who don’t care deeply...”
– Nicholas Sparks (via explaterate)
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“To love life, to love it even
when you have no stomach for it
and everything...”
– Ellen Bass (via explaterate)
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“This is my depressed stance. When you’re depressed, it makes a lot of difference...”
– Charles M. Schulz (via danseurs)
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“I always wonder about raindrops. I wonder about how they’re always falling down,...”
– Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me (via ventriloquistic)