May 2011
2 posts
“I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you,...”
– Everything is Illuminated
“When we face problems or disagreements today, we have to arrive at solutions...”
– Dali Lama
This thought is so simple but so very difficult to carry out. So often I just complain about injuries done to me, instead of asking what I can do better.
February 2011
1 post
“Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to...”
– The More Loving One, W.H. Auden
November 2010
1 post
“A stranger has come
To share my room in the house not right in the head,
...”
– Dylan Thomas
September 2010
3 posts
“ALL kings, and all their favourites,
All glory of honours, beauties, wits,...”
– John Donne, The Anniversary
Anonymous asked: They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end."
What does this mean?
What does this mean?
“Forever – is composed of Nows –
‘Tis not a different time –
Except for...”
– Emily Dickinson
July 2010
3 posts
“I know I am but summer to your heart,
And not the full four seasons of the...”
– I know I am but summer to your heart, Edna St. Vincent Millay
“A something in a summer’s Day
As slow her flambeaux burn away
Which solemnizes...”
– #122, Emily Dickinson
1 tag
“All over again I understood how important, how irreplaceable, Sumire was to me....”
– Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami
June 2010
14 posts
1 tag
“Menos tu vientre
todo es confuso.
Menos tu vientre
todo es futuro
fugaz,...”
– Menos tu vientre, Miguel Hernández
1 tag
“Que yo no tengo la culpa,
que la culpa es de la tierra
y de ese olor...”
– Bodas de Sangre, Federico García Lorca
1 tag
“He resolved to outstrip the vanity which awaits all the woes of mankind; he...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, “Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote”
Factoids →
Fact: I liked lareinerouge’s flexible interpretation of “fact.” I will not tag five peeps cause I’m lazy, you can just do this too if you like.
1. I have 77 email-drafts on my Gmail account. This is because I write emails to other people or myself, which I never send, just to think or express feelings that I am uncomfortable telling them. I try not to be secretive, but...
“The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting...”
– Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
"Men take romantic failings harder than women" →
1 tag
1 tag
“No estés lejos de mí un solo día, porque cómo,
porque, no sé decirlo, es largo...”
– Pablo Neruda
1 tag
“Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche.
Escribir, por ejemplo:...”
– Pablo Neruda
May 2010
24 posts
1 tag
“It is true what people say, that happiness carried to an extreme turns into...”
– Shen Fu, Six Records of a Floating Life
1 tag
“There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person,...”
– Edith Wharton
“The composition of vast books is a laborious and impoverishing extravagance. To...”
– Jorge Luis Borges
1 tag
“Love is the pure language of the world. A language without word. The one true...”
– Paulo Coehlo
1 tag
“[love is more thicker than forget]
love is more thicker than forget
more...”
– e.e. cummings
“I no longer love her, that’s certain, but maybe I love her.
Love is so...”
– Pablo Neruda (via quote-book)
“Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours,
Makes the night morning, and the...”
– Shakespeare, Richard III
the little things
i am sitting at home, freaking out about my final on thursday, and when i am going to move out- pack for the road trip- complete all the tasks i have to do at work- tell my boss i am going to be gone for a week.
BUT my mom just made me a colombian hot chocolate. it tastes like a chocolate bar melted in milk. life is good : ]
2 tags
“Anyone who falls in love is searching for missing pieces of themselves. So...”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
road trip in 3 days. freedom (from finals) in 2...
probably the only thing keeping me sane right now.
“We know what we are, but not what we may be.”
– William Shakespeare (via quote-book)
“They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a...”
– Jhumpa Lahiri (via thresca) (via quote-book)
“Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or...”
– Erich Fromm (via quote-book) (via miss-namor)
“it may not always be so; and i say
that if your lips, which i have loved,...”
– e.e. cummings
“it is at moments after i have dreamed
of the rare entertainment of your eyes,...”
– e.e. cummings
so cute →
"The past is a foreign country; they do things...
i don’t even recognize you anymore.
we have nothing in common anymore.
we lead totally separate lives.
you’re not the person i knew and i’m not the person you knew.
what if we are growing apart and not together?
“will your heart never change? My love, will it?”
1 tag
“For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
April 2010
6 posts
2 tags
