December 2009
30 posts
“You see, every detail, every gesture, as slight as it may be, reveals an...”
– - Le battement d’ailes du papillon
The things people do
I was drowning in documents when he stopped by my table
and called out my name.
“Yes?” I answered, looking up at him warily with tired eyes.
He paused a bit, before saying:
“I haven’t seen you smile today.”
I forced one out, he nodded and headed back to his table.
I went back to work.
A few seconds later, a real one spread across my face, and warmed me right up...
brasilpop:
becauseitmakesmesmile:
“… back and...
I want you to say
Put down that book
and talk to me, dammit.
I’d oblige, you know.
But if the ensuing conversation has me in anything less than rapture,
It’s back to the pages I go.
“There’s nothing scary about choice. Scary is when you don’t have choice.”
– via: I wrote this for you (via kari-shma) (via quote-book) (via aliaaa)
Sometimes having choice is a lot scarier than not having it.
Trust me.
“There are some hurts that you never completely get over. And you think time will...”
– The Story of Us (via quotewhore) (via gatekeeper) (via maddieness) (via hatipelancarpeluru)
People, and how they change, and how you don't...
Who are you these days?
“We laughed and laughed, together and separately, out loud and silently, we were...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via quotewhore) (via heartwarming)
“I think there is something beautiful in revelling in sadness. The proof is how...”
– Joseph Gordon-Levitt (via michelleallan) (via falulatonks) (via heartwarming)
Sunshine
quote-book:
tylerknott:
Her sad rain held shared ashes, drained lashes and islands lined in sunrise. She rains as her hands harden snarled and held. I lean in rushed saddened. Drained lashes and shared ashes held inside inland seas. Shared rain and sunshine. Sins and used denials line a land shunned and rained ruined and handled. She rains. Rain. Her hands lend sadness. She, rain I, sunshine.
...
brasilpop:
hollymay09:
You could ink yourself until everyone knows all the things you love. You could wear uniforms that gave you all the authority in the world. Lose weight until there was nothing left. Paint the face. Suck in your gut. But in the dark, stripped down to your bones, all that remains is you.