February 2012
15 posts
We are protected from so much pain. For example: graves.
The earth’s roots and...
– For Example, A Flower by Arkaye Kierulf (via leda-swanson)
January 2012
1 post
but it really just seems silly, now
imagining i could write you right out of my life.
November 2011
10 posts
I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
– On the Road, Jack Kerouac (via songofiaras)
kassiber
wordjournal:
noun • a letter smuggled out of jail, a secret coded message.
this german loanword is derived from the yiddish word kessaw meaning “written.”
October 2011
24 posts
We had never seen this world
but we sensed it, like a cat’s breath against our...
– D. Nurske, from “Nights on the Peninsula” (via the-final-sentence)
We know what we are, but not what we may be.
– Ophelia in Shakespeare’s Hamlet (via true-grit)
I turn 22 in one week.
butwhymalemodels:
My life, as I know it, is officially over. There’s nothing to look forward to except social security and death, only one is guaranteed. Goodbye youth, it’s been a good run.
less than for me :(
I don’t know where I end and the world begins. My best guess? Skin. It’s the...
– Richard Siken, In conversation with poet Richard Siken, be prepared to bleed a little. (via leighway)
It's never too cold for an iced coffee.
butwhymalemodels:
Never.
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…you read an artist’s book not with your heart (the heart is a remarkably stupid...
– Vladimir Nabakov (source)
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
– Albert Schweitzer (via berrynice)
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Did I do a good job? Have I disappeared in all the ways you hoped I would? Or...
– Close your eyes, clear your heart, let it go…:
(via hourglasss)
You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between...
– Marya Hornbacher (via creatingaquietmind)