March 2011
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Don't say in a letter what you can't in my ear.
She is deranged, but so so playful.
– Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
With writing, we have second chances.
– Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
I don’t think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make...
– Everything Is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
Most experiences are unsayable; they come to fullness in a realm that words do...
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (via aperfectcommotion)
February 2011
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You are the only one who has understood even a whisper of me, and I will tell...
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated (via ish07)
I love this quote so so much.
A literary influence is never just a literary influence. It’s also an influence...
– Thom Gunn (via thepanicofbirds)
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I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
– SYLVIA PLATH (via sacraments)
I have so much of you in my heart.
– John Keats to Fanny Brawne, 10 July 1819 (via wearebasiclight)
youngerinmyhunger asked: Your blog is really beautiful. I love all the quotes you post are just amazing. And this blog made me want to read The Perks of Being A Wallflower which is now one of my favourite books. You really do find amazing things and run an amazing blog.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think...
– Haruki Murakami (Norwegian Wood)
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more...
– James Baldwin (via jesuisperdu)
I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via birdiegulux)
allofthiscanbebroken:
why am i only finding this NOW?!
the video is class (strangely, i’ve never used that word)
Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.
– Raymond Carver (via reading-is-fun)
Every morning.