January 2012
31 posts
“Your first time out of the country
of your own skin, I didn’t bring a map.
...”
– Heather Sommer, Traveler (via grammatolatry)
“I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love,
and how you gave me...”
– Charles Bukowski (via andwhisper)
Not Finished
dearoldlove:
I’m so sad that distance broke us up—I wasn’t finished.
“Although he doesn’t know it yet, she isn’t his real life. But he is...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride
Someone Around
dearoldlove:
We just kept each other around to have someone around.
52hearts:
Everlasting Light (Black Keys Cover) -...
“Kill me by giving me a grenade
and telling me that it’s your heart.
I don’t...”
– 42. it feels like a burden, Shinji Moon (via clavicola)
“Your heart and my heart
are very, very old friends.”
– Hafiz (via human-voices)
“I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because...”
– Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors (via fleurishes)
“so this is the sound of you
here and now whether or not
anyone hears it this...”
– W. S. Merwin, from “To the New Year” (via the-final-sentence)
“I was so sure my love of you was perfect,
and the light today
reminded me of...”
– Michael Ryan, from “In Winter” (via rabbit-light)
December 2011
130 posts
“My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies,...”
– Patricia Highsmith (via misswallflower)
“[But the constricted light,
the year closing down on itself with all
the...”
– Linda Pastan, from “The Letter” (adapted from soulsublime)
“I don’t think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and...”
– Boris Pasternak (Doctor Zhivago)
“Every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (via misswallflower)
UNDERTOW
criminalwisdom:
by Howie Good Your hands fall helplessly to your sides. All the people you admire are either dead or secretly sad. You feel the undertow of everything that has gone missing. I should have been there with you when the little black flowers broke open. I should have watched for children like the sign said. (Via Riley Dog)
“Today I found a scrap of paper
where you’d scrawled your name.
I hate the...”
– Charles Jensen, excerpt from Debts (via holdonmagnolia)
