December 2011
41 posts
“Think back and replay your year; if it doesn’t bring you tears of either joy or...”
– Ally McBeal (via julie911)
“Some people think love is the end of the road, and if you’re lucky enough to...”
– Let The Great World Spin, Colum McCann (via wrists)
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman (via boxofoctaves)
“…but Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering ‘It will...”
– Alfred Tennyson, The Foresters, Robin Hood and Maid Marion (via bookoasis)
“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but...”
– Lance Armstrong (via quote-book)
“When you’re up to your nose in shit, keep your mouth shut”
– Henry Fonda (via kari-shma) (via quote-book, kari-shma)
“He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (via forlovers)
“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and...”
– Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (via bookoasis)
“Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will...”
– Sylvia Plath (via imfantasyparade)
“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some...”
– George Orwell, “Why I Write” (via bardsandsages
)
“Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via quote-book)
Dear Millionaires, if you don’t have a bookshelf...
“Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your...”
– Joan Crawford (via kari-shma) (via quote-book, kari-shma)
“It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record...”
– High Fidelity, by Nick Hornby (via stupidmansuit)
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“Life is either a great adventure or nothing.”
– Helen Keller (via girlwithoutwings)
“Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much...”
– Herman Hesse (via @johannal
)
“You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There’s still...”
– The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (via quote-book)
“All change is change for the better.
There is no such thing as “change for the...”
– Neale Donald Walsch (via cherpeace)
“The best way out is always through”
– Robert Frost (via simtan
)
“Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.”
– Oscar Wilde (via quote-book
)
“I try to pull the language in to such a sharpness that it jumps off the page. It...”
– Maya Angelou, Paris Review “The Art of Fiction #119” (via thelifeguardlibrarian
)
“I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change. I have...”
– Erica Jong (via creatingaquietmind)
“I’ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (via laceofpearls)
“I like flaws and feel more comfortable around people who have them. I myself am...”
– Augusten Burroughs (via light-essence)
“I said to the sun, ‘Tell me about the big bang.’ The sun said, ‘It hurts to...”
– Andrea Gibson (via wistless
)
“What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth...”
– Suzanne Collins (Mockingjay)
“The truest owner of a Library is he who has bought each book for the love he...”
– Frank Carr (via whynotread)