February 2012
67 posts
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“This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you’re going to mess up...”
– Marilyn Monroe (via fatherearth)
“It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of reassurance in it, that you...”
– The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (via fictionalromance)
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“Call a jack a jack. Call a spade a spade. But always call a whore a lady. Their...”
– The Name of the Wind - Patrick Rothfuss (via hamrunsfast)
“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s...”
– Erica Jong (via corona-borealis)
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“The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.”
– Juliette Lewis (via piiss)
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“Rape culture is a culture in which people who have survived a violent crime are...”
– Donald Glover (i wish i could put this on a business card and hand it out to people who make rape jokes. the flip side would say FUCK YOU)
(via janedoe225)
“Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who...”
– Amy Poehler (via stupidhandshakeything)
“What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also...”
– C.S Lewis (via lucifelle)
...stand for what is right. even if it means...
“Let your smile change the world, but never let the world change your smile”
– (via christinaaa-12)
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6. Stop trying to hold onto the past.
– You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading your last one.
“Because if Harry Potter taught us anything, it’s that nobody deserves to live in...”
– Harry Potter Alliance on LBGT organizations (via eemmi)
“Love is brief: forgetting lasts so long.”
– Pablo Neruda, from Twenty Poems of Love (via asphyxiations)
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I...”
– Rumi (via gorjira)
“I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.”
– H. TRUMAN (via vashti)
“You mean she would rather imagine herself relating to an absent person than...”
– “The Glass Man” in Amelie (via kisseswithoutlove)
Things You Shouldn't Say To... →
finding-my-bones:
journeytoanewcreation:
People suffering from depression:
“Stop being so negative!” “You choose to be sad” “You don’t even have anything to be sad about” “There are millions worse off than you, just get a grip!”
People struggling with self-harm:
“You’re just doing it for attention!” “Those cuts aren’t even that bad” “You don’t even have a reason to cut/burn yourself” “You...
“That’s one of the worst things about living with brilliant people— they’re so...”
– The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd (via quote-book)
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“Don’t you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour...”
– Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
ifindoubtwearred:
‘I don’t want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don’t tell truths. I tell what ought to be truth.’ - Blanche DuBois
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“I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman’s charm is 50% illusion.”
– Blanche DuBois- A Streetcar Named Desire (via fishnetdreamsandskinnylove)
“Kill all my demons, and my angels might die too.”
– Tennessee Williams (via ijustwanttosleep)
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“When I write I don’t aim to shock people, and I’m surprised when I do. But I...”
– Tennessee Williams (via hideousnight)
“We are all unkind from time to time. We all do things we desperately wish we...”
– A Great and Terrible Beauty, By Libba Bray (via peacefulseclusion)
“Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.”
– Chinese Proverb (via nirvikalpa)
“Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via thenocturnals)
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to...”
– Oscar Wilde (via swardsward)
“I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I...”
– W. Somerset Maugham
(The Painted Veil)
“Go after her. Fuck, don’t sit there and wait for her to call, go after her...”
– Harvey Milk
“Sex education should focus not just on the mechanics of heterosexual sex and how...”
– Simone Webb (Underage sex isn’t automatically a problem | Comment is free | The Guardian)
“I don’t know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like...”
– Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson (via mirroir)
“You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your...”
– Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto (via elpueblounido)
