May 2013
Rules my Grandma's Psychiatrist gave her in 56'
Get some cheap dishes and break them when you get upset.
Learn how to say “NO” and don’t feel guilty about it
Buy something frivolous for yourself once in awhile, like a new hat.
Never again do anything you don’t want to do.
“Tire of me
if you will,
my dear
I will not tire
of you.
You can leave
me...”
– Keaton Henson, from 10 a.m, Gare Du Nord (via violentwavesofemotion)
“Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings,...”
– Albert Camus, from Notebooks, 1951-1959 (via violentwavesofemotion)
“Chaos is not when I think of you incessantly or when I have trouble moving...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from The Scrapbook Of Katherine Mansfield (via violentwavesofemotion)
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
– Cicero (via ihatenietzsche)
“You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.”
– Epictetus (via mercurieux)
“The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence of bad people but because...”
– Napoléon Bonaparte (via mercurieux)
“I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.”
– Simone de Beauvoir (via mirroir)
“Do not ignore it. Fuck it. Cry your heart out. Then fuck it some more.”
– Charles Bukowski, from Selected Letters Vol. 4 (via violentwavesofemotion)
“Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time...”
– Haruki Murakami (via thefuneralofhearts)
“The business of books is the business of life.”
– George Whitman, proprietor of Shakespeare & Company, Paris (via prettybooks)
“Tread Lightly, she is near
Under the snow,
Speak gently, she can hear
The...”
– Requiescat, Oscar Wilde, 1881
Wilde wrote this poem for his sister Isola, who died of meningitis aged 9.
(via vyvyan-holland)
“Love lasts about seven years. That’s how long it takes for the cells of the body...”
– Françoise Sagan (via 13neighbors)
“The “wives, sisters, daughters” line of argument comes up all the fucking time....”
– The Believer Logger: I am not your wife, sister or daughter
One of the most incisive responses to some of the rhetoric we’ve been hearing in the wake of the Steubenville rape verdict is this blog post over at The Belle Jar.
(via ceedling)
“I see now that dismissing YA books because you’re not a young adult is a bit...”
– Nick Hornby, Shakespeare Wrote For Money (via jobberwacky)
“She has a great soul, which flashes from her deep blue eyes.”
– Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, January 20 (via le-dilemme)
“Let it die. Let there be a new beginning. It’s awful. Goodnight.”
– Charles Bukowski (via le-dilemme)
“In idleness there is a perpetual despair.”
– Thomas Carlyle (via larmoyante)
“It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it...”
– Libba Bray (via hellanne)
“Grown-ups like numbers. When you tell them about a new friend, they never ask...”
– The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (via adieufranz)
