April 2012
85 posts
Just words. For pacification. You didn’t really mean what you said back then. And I see you don’t mean it now.
She did not need much, wanted very little. A kind word, sincerity, fresh air,...
– Starra Neely Blade (via inmyheart-and-mind)
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I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly...
– Toni Morrison (via hellokush)
Just found out the roots are going to be at...
and im going yeahhboyyyyy
Love is a striking example of how little reality means to us.
– Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time. And that’s why we love books - because we have so little need for reality. (via doubledaybooks)
The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the...
– Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams (via girlwithoutwings)
Gammas & Gerunds: Sappho, fr. 137 →
gammasandgerunds:
I want to say something but shame prevents me
yet if you had a desire for good or beautiful things and your tongue were not concocting some evil to say, shame would not hold down your eyes but rather you would speak about what is just
—tr. Anne Carson; If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho…
We’re all lost souls here. It’s a good thing we’ve got each other.
– Amy Plum (via julie911)