February 2012
29 posts
Anonymous asked: Chin up! You are more beautiful and worthy than he could obviously see. Phones are overrated, pour a glass of wine, sit outside and watch the stars. There's always hope in the stars, and no one who doesn't even take the time to get to know you, deserves your tears. :)
“People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted (via devilinhighheels)
I’m losing control I’ve lost control my hands are shaking and there’s a mark on my neck.
I’m panicking I’m panicking I’m panicking.
I am not normal.
My hands ache for home.
And please don’t tell me so what and it was all just a dream. Because I am pouring everything. Because I am pouring everything. Because I am pouring everything into this. Like I do everytime. Like I do sometimes. Like I hardly ever do but there’s something so different in your eyes.
So don’t tell me all the stories I never wanted to hear. Just speak softly in southern...
“Would you catch a couple thousand fireflies
Yeah, put them in a lamp to light...”
– The Band Perry (via steadylikeagypsy)
Remnants of pains and departures touch every inch of my body that you ease with your hands, your lips—kissing the fear right out of me.
I know the memories rushing into mind I want to kiss your scars tonight
“I’ve never minded it,” he went on. “Being lost, that is. I had always thought...”
– Cassandra Clare (via quotewhore)
Ugh gosh I am not THAT girl! You know, the one who fuckin decorates valentine cookies while listening to Adele with a dopey smile on her face. Yeah, I was THAT girl today.
And after just one date, it feels so fuckin good to finally be…
that girl.
:)
“For you I undress down to the sheaths of my nerves.
I remove my jewelry and set...”
– “For You” by Kim Addonizio (via growing-orbits)
so im really renalally druynk. but it was nice for a guy to finally spend some time with me and wrap his arms around me cuz i was cold . just saying. but he is kinda old. i will delete this when i am sober enough. but i have to go to work in four housrs. horrayyyy or me.
blahke
hnnnnnn
It’s been a year since I’ve seen you.
And my heart did five hundred million back flips all at once.
You’ve still got it.
:)
It’s a strange thing… the way youtubing sad piano songs helps make you a better writer. Just like how a few shock-tops make you more sentimental, and a few cigarettes help make you more relaxed. The bad things, the sad things, the forlorn and forgotten and mistaken and tred-upon, beat-up, spit-out, foul-mouthed things are the things that make us better. Better? Better. More human. More...
“That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the...”
– Charles Dickens, from Great Expectations
Charles Dickens was born 200 years ago today, on the 7th February 2012.
(via growing-orbits)
“Some say you’re lucky
If nothing shatters it.
But then you wouldn’t...”
– Gregory Orr, from Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved (via growing-orbits)
didacticnonscience:
There is more to give
than coffee-stained silence
and second-hand lines
stuttered apologies
and sloppy rhymes—
to reach
the narrow confines
of our hearts.
so many things I want to forget. and this cup of raspberry hefeweizen is full of regret.
January 2012
45 posts
“All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and...”
– Rumi (via human-voices)
“Wherever I am
I am what is missing.”
– Mark Strand, from “Keeping Things Whole” (via growing-orbits
)
Anonymous asked: Read Memoriam by Anne Michaels
wow love the moments when there’s a vomitting of words that are absolutely true and beautiful and malicious and that you’ve held in for far far too long.
“Alive in the slippery moonlight,
how easily you managed
to hold yourself...”
– The Loss by Anne Stevenson (via growing-orbits
)
“I might feel, and I do feel, that in order to write poetry seriously one must...”
–
Dan Beachy-Quick, “A January Notebook”, Evening Will Come, April 2011 (with thanks to leopoldgursky)
“She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose,...”
– Lorrie Moore (via Confuzzzled)
“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be...”
– Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (via bookmania
)
“When the wind stops the silence comes back…
You can hear whole days sinking,...”
– Raúl Zurita, from INRI (translated by William Rowe)
“And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not...”
– John Steinbeck, on Love (via eclecticscollective
)
Well, I had an amazing night last night. And now my job may be in jeopardy because of it.
Sick to my stomach.
