May 2013
17 posts
“He loved her in a subtle kind of way. It wasn’t the kind of love you see in...”
– Jake Christie, Small Stories (via larmoyante)
“Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn’t a song that...”
– Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
(via imagineallthe)
surimistick:
i was making a lot of mistakes and then my archery instructor said:
“you make mistakes because you’re focusing on the target and not on your actions”
and i was like woah
thanks for giving me the best life advice i’ve ever gotten
childishnotions:
writing is safer, somehow because my pen cannot stutter like my lips do, and words get stuck in throats, not fingertips, can’t stumble on paper trails of blue lines because writing is definite and clear and no one can tell if i am crying or laughing through written words alone
April 2013
39 posts
“Relax. You will become an adult. You will figure out your career. You will find...”
– Johanna de Silentio (via darnyill)
“To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via letsgoeskimo)
“I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list.”
– Susan Sontag (via itsnotafairytale-onthecontrary)
“And there are millions of teens who read because they are sad and lonely and...”
– Sherman Alexie, Why the Best Kids Books Are Written in Blood (via thefirstgentleman)
“I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.”
Quote of the night, y’all.
(via womanwithaflowerhead)
2 tags
clementinevonradics:
Please Know:
Whether it’s the days you burn more brilliant than the sun
Or the nights you collapse into my lap, curling your body into a thousand broken questions
You are the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen.
I will love you when you are a still day.
I will love you when you are a hurricane.
“You won’t allow me to go to school.
I won’t become a doctor.
Remember this:...”
– Poem written by an 11 year old Afghan girl
This poem was recorded in a NYT magazine article about female underground poetry groups in Afghanistan. An amazing article about the ways in which women are using a traditional two line poetry form to express their resistance to male oppression, their...
novemberrain93:
boundedbyrealityy:
People send their kids to school, kids get shot.
People watch batman, they get shot.
People run marathons for charity, they get bombed.
Where is the innocence in the world, is there even good left in us?
Teacher sacrifices her life to save children.
Hollywood cancels premiere and Christian Bale goes to honor victims.
People rush to donate their own...
