"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."  -

Jack Kerouac, Dharma Bums (via bookmania

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"She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries become, for the most part, reactions to the days she regrets, wants to correct, rewrite."  -

Dave Eggers, How the Water Feels to the Fishes (via aneclecticmess)

So true. 


"I don’t suppose I really know you very well - but I know you smell like the delicious damp grass that grows near old walls and that your hands are beautiful opening out of your sleeves and that the back of your head is a mossy sheltered cave when there is trouble in the wind and that my cheek just fits the depression in your shoulder."  - Zelda Fitzgerald, in a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (via debonairs)


"And that’s where the whole trouble is. We’re too much alike to understand each other because we don’t even understand our own selves."  - Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (via bookmania)


"Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people’s lives, never your own"  - Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot


"May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself."  -

Neil Gaiman (via light-essence)

Happy 2012 guys. :)


"You spend your whole life stuck in the labryinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present."  - Looking for Alaska, John Green (via quote-book)


"While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination."  - Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies (via bookmania)


I wish these were on sale.


quote-book: Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye (via helplesslyamazed)

quote-book:

Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye (via helplesslyamazed)


"The picture is of happiness, the story not. Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there’s no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It’s loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road."  -

The Blind Assassin, Margaret Atwood (via labeledbones)

Sometimes I wish that I could forget that I ever read this book, just so I could read it again for the first time. 


"She couldn’t be on his wavelength all the time. That’s all. When you could recognize that and deal with it, you were on your way to an adult relationship."  - Stephen King, The Stand


"In my experience, you will truly serve only what you love. Because service is love made visible. If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself and you will have only yourself."  - Stephen Colbert


"Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."  -

Kurt Vonnegut (via inwardheartbeats)

A good thing to remember after a day like this.