December 2011
1 post
May 2011
2 posts
December 2010
12 posts
“People don’t want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via michellelorraine)
October 2010
12 posts
“Faith in language is, like all true faiths, unaltered by a practice that...”
– Alberto Manguel, The Muse of Impossibility (at Threepenny Review)
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero (via bookwormshaven)
February 2010
6 posts
“Lovers are not at their best when it matters. Mouths dry up, palms sweat,...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The Passion (via fuckyeahjeanettewinterson)
January 2010
35 posts
“Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big...”
– From Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (via tristanskye)
R.I.P., Sir.
“What I was really hanging around for, I was trying to feel some kind of a...”
– ~ J.D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye. RIP. (via devincastro) (via gatekeeper)
“Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.”
– Patti Smith (via projectdarkstar) (via quote-book)
“As much as you want to, you can’t rely on someone else to make you feel alive....”
– ~ Dawson’s Creek (via runawaytrain) (via gatekeeper)
“I dipped my hands in the water. Liquid time.
And I thought, “Go home and...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook (via fuckyeahjeanettewinterson)
“‘You lost her?’
‘Of course I did.’
‘Have you got over it?’
‘It was a love...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook (via fuckyeahjeanettewinterson)
“She wanted me because I was a pool where she drank… I wanted her because she was...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook (via fuckyeahjeanettewinterson)
“It’s the cliches that cause the trouble. A precise emotion seeks a precise...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body (via fuckyeahjeanettewinterson)
“Love it was that drove them forth. Love that brought them home again. Love...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body (via fuckyeahjeanettewinterson)
“Sex between women is mirror geography. The subtlety of its secret - utterly the...”
– Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook (via fuckyeahjeanettewinterson)