June 2011
“Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing.”
—Eve Ensler (via misswallflower)
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“I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.”
— Hafiz
“You say that you love rain, but you open your umbrella when it rains. You say that you love the sun, but you find a shadow spot when the sun shines. You say that you love the wind, but you close your windows when wind blows. This is why I am afraid; You say that you love me too.”
—William Shakespeare (via bavarde)
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”
—W.B. Yeats (via likeclank)
“Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not read, you do not daydream. If you sleep it is not because you need to sleep. And when at last it is over, there is no evidence: no weapon, no blood, and no body. The only clue might be the shadows beneath your eyes or a terribly thin line near the corner of your mouth indicating something has been suffered, that in the privacy of your life you have lost something and the loss is too empty to share.”
—(via tinyteacup)
TAKING INVENTORY.
1. Left shoulder tight. Begging to be softened.
2. Whispering in the corner of a coffee shop, the aroma.
3. Red lips, red shoes.
4. Summer night. The way it finds itself into every corner of your lungs.
5. Your silence, stinging.
6. Two new used additions to my book piles.
7. Nails painted two different colors.
8. Embrace the quirks. (See No. 7)
9. The zoo and other reckless money spending. Very worth it.
10. Identical twin.
