February 2012
“Look at your little finger, the emptiness of it is no different than the...”
– Jack Kerouac, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity (via theprospectofvanishingforever)
“Stars, hide your fires;
Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
– Shakespeare, Macbeth, I, iv (via proustitute)
“They cannot scare me with their empty spaces
Between stars—on stars where no...”
– Robert Frost, Desert Places (via buried-denmark)
“never wanted to be anyone but myself although figuring out who i was was...”
– Dark Raven (via beryl-azure)
“Whatever made me the way I am left me hollow, empty inside, unable to feel. It...”
– Jeff Lindsay, Darkly Dreaming Dexter (via larmoyante)
“Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the...”
– Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (via ondinia)
1 tag
beryl-azure:
♫ - Maxence Cyrin - Where Is My...
“Your skin:
unfamiliar
beautiful
strange.”
– Rose Vealina
“the smell and the soft hardness of his skin
is what erases her already-wavering...”
– Jamie Femilan, Skin
“I am all my flaws,
mistakes, heartbreaks and failures.
Do you love me still?”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
“You have a heart of gold
and I am kneeling in your bloodstream
panning for the...”
– Andrea Gibson, from “Staircase” (via loveyourchaos)
“I can’t help but wonder if there’s some moon inside me, spinning and shifting...”
– Everything I’m Cracked Up to Be, Jen Trynin (via fleurishes)
“I don’t know when we’ll see each other again or what the world will be like when...”
– Arthur Golden (via misswallflower)
“Of everything I have seen,
it’s you I want to go on seeing:
of everything I’ve...”
– Pablo Neruda (via tastyfuck)
“I want you to kiss me like a stranger once again.”
– Tom Waits (via petit-poids)
“I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple...”
– John Green (via intoxicatedsoul)
“I look up — as if to meet your voice
With all its urgent future
That has burst...”
– Ted Hughes, from “Visit”, in Birthday Letters (via growing-orbits)
“the veins on the backs of her hands are the color of the clear morning sky...”
– W.S. Merwin, The Piano (via beryl-azure)
“it is unbearably painful for the soul to love silently.”
– Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems (via beryl-azure)
“When love leaves the world, all hearts are still. Tell them of my love and tell...”
– Stephen King (via misswallflower)
“Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt
at being told that it is a fragment...”
– Rabindranath Tagor (via seabois)
“I told her how until that moment I had not understood that this story was a...”
– The Shadow of the Wind, Carlos Ruiz Zafón (via clavicola)
“If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from...”
– Extract of Virginia Woolf’s suicide note (via funeral)
“I looked in my heart while the wild swans went over.
And what did I see I had...”
– Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “Wild Swans” (via proustitute)
“This morning, with her, having coffee.”
– Johnny Cash, when asked for his definition of paradise. (via nicollecamille)
“Tell your legs to stop
and turn around where they stand.
To run back to me.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
“… It is unbearably painful
For the soul to love silently.”
– Anna Akhmatova, from The Complete Poems (translated by Judith Hemschemeyer)
“perhaps the universe lies in every direction. perhaps i’m waiting for it to wash...”
– Written by me (via beryl-azure)
“I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others—young clerks in...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via larmoyante)
“Movement always helps. A world of thoughts occurred to her whenever she rode a...”
– Elizabeth Hay (Alone in the Classroom)
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via thenocturnals)
5 tags
Adam K - Need To Feel Loved
Vocal trance music....
“I’ll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do...”
– Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass (via vashti)
“No, we weren’t lovers, but in a way we had opened ourselves to each other even...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via verwardheid)
“I drift into the sound of wind,
how small my life must be
to fit into his palm...”
– Reginald Shepherd, from “Hesitation Theory” (via earlyfrost)
“By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two
together in their sleep...”
– Pablo Neruda (via vashti)
“Every
heart writes a different letter
of winter to its cold.
Icicles on sheet...”
– Allison Titus, from “Inclement” (via honeychurch)
beryl-azure:
♫ - Matt Lange - Rift (Kerry Undo)
“if you blur your eyes, the streetlights become hundreds of ghosts going home.”
– I Wrote This For You, The Sweet Release (via beryl-azure)
“You came empty handed, you will leave empty handed. You came with nothing, you...”
– Bhagavad Gita (via elige)
“And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart,
‘Your...”
– Kahlil Gibran (via nirvikalpa)
“The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to...”
– W. G. Sebald, Vertigo, trans. Michael Hulse (via proustitute)
“as i am rain, you are the rainbow.”
– Mindy Halkins (via beryl-azure)
3 tags
Madonna - What It Feels Like For a Girl
“please— consider me a dream.”
– Franz Kafka (via beryl-azure)
“I saw your lips, your nakedness, the trees,
that dappled light. I dreamt of...”
– Luke Davies, from Totem Poem
via proustitute (via frenchtwist)
“In the end, we self-perceiving, self-inventing, locked-in mirages are little...”
– Douglas R. Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop (via mythologyofblue)
“My bones hold a stillness, the far
Fields melt my heart.”
– from Sheep in Fog by Sylvia Plath (via crevettefumee)