February 2012
“Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a...”
– Eugene O’Neill (via lovesolitudes)
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Going to Stockholm for the day, will be back again...
“She carried her pocket Shakespeare about with her, and met life fortified by the...”
– Virginia Woolf, Night and Day (via sketchofthepast)
“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original...”
– Oscar Wilde (via unejeunedemoiselle)
handmadewings:
emmacherry:
I can not write anymore. I can’t write poetry, or prose. I can’t write bits of my novella. I can’t write answers to anonymous questions, or letters to dear friends. I can’t seem to remember how. It’s terrifying.
I’ve been feeling the same, my dear - it will pass, hopefully.
“There is strong shadow where there is much light.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe + (via moonandmoon)
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, the man who never reads lives...”
– George R.R. Martin (via vermouths)
“I don’t necessarily agree with everything that I say.”
– Marshall McLuhan (via seabois)
“Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?”
– Sigmund Freud (via waitingforteaagain)
Words to keep inside your pocket:
Quiescent - a quiet, soft-spoken soul.
Chimerical - merely imaginary; fanciful.
Susurrus - a whispering or rustling sound.
Raconteur - one who excels in story-telling.
Clinquant - glittering; tinsel-like.
Aubade - a song greeting the dawn.
Ephemeral - lasting a very short time.
Sempiternal - everlasting; eternal.
Euphonious - pleasing; sweet in...
“There are times when I so hate myself that I’m tearing at the walls inside my...”
– Stephen Fry (via winterbabywritings)
“I hate this feeling. Like I’m here, but I’m not. Like someone cares. But they...”
– Ellen Hopkins (via nuaira)
