"I love you more than my own skin."
―Frida Kahlo to Diego Rivera (via thechocolatebrigade)
―Frida Kahlo to Diego Rivera (via thechocolatebrigade)
"A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on."
―Carl Sandburg
―Carl Sandburg
"Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame."
―Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (via libraryland)
―Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (via libraryland)
"I envy you. Every moment. You can leave me. I cannot leave myself."
―Anna Świrszczyńska (via thenocturnals)
―Anna Świrszczyńska (via thenocturnals)
"The picture must radiate light, the bodies have their own light which they consume to live; they burn, they are not lit from outside."
―Egon Schiele (via girlinlondon)
―Egon Schiele (via girlinlondon)
The Hunger Games
"What is the answer? …….
What is the question?"
―Gertrude Stein on her deathbed
What is the question?"
―Gertrude Stein on her deathbed
"If you want something you’ve never had, then you must be willing to do something you’ve never done."
―Thomas Jefferson (via semperaugustus)
―Thomas Jefferson (via semperaugustus)
"Saying ‘I notice you’re a nerd’ is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you’d rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you’d rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?’ In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even ‘lame’ is kind of lame. Saying ‘You’re lame’ is like saying ‘You walk with a limp.’ Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, and he’s done all right for himself."
―John Green
―John Green
"I don’t need therapy; I have life."
―Tony Soprano
―Tony Soprano
"I could say I did all these things and if it sounds like a lot I an assure you it isn’t. I’m not married and I have no children. I have friends but they don’t know where I am most of the time. I don’t work. I live on money I made before, money that is almost gone.
Last year I made $10,000.
I live in San Francisco. Rents are going up.
I’m teaching a couple of classes to get by. I know I should get a job, but it’s hard to do that after a while."
―Stephen Elliott, The Adderall Diaries
Last year I made $10,000.
I live in San Francisco. Rents are going up.
I’m teaching a couple of classes to get by. I know I should get a job, but it’s hard to do that after a while."
―Stephen Elliott, The Adderall Diaries
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―Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (via afewofmyfavourites)
I had no one to help me, but the T. S. Eliot helped me.
So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn’t be read at school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language – and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers – a language powerful enough to say how it is.
It isn’t a hiding place. It is a finding place.
"―Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (via afewofmyfavourites)
