February 2012
reading and the sea
freins:
I dream of sitting by the restless seaside. And I want to read; not just read, but plunge—greatly, completely, uninhibitedly into a world of prose, of mystic wonder and drama. The fluttering of the pages will be the sound of my heartbeat, as it trembles before everything beautiful. I want to feel the words ebb as with the tides pulling along the sand banks, hungrily, fulfilling my needs...
how to disappear →
milkwoods:
withdraw from society. pass the time by peering out of the window at the snow. listen to simon and garfunkel. refuse to consume anything other than cigarettes and sweet tea. spend the day wearing pyjamas and a duvet. ignore reality. shut the door to the outside world. shrink into yourself. pretend to be asleep when anyone tries to make social contact. stare at maps and globes and wish...
“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune...”
– Emily Dickinson (via freins)
“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via freins)
“Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
– Robert Frost (via freins)
“Gone.
The saddest word in the language.
In any language.”
– Mark Slouka (via pornforblind)
“Unhappy memories are persistent. They’re specific, and it’s the details that...”
– Cameron Dokey, Belle: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast (via selfinspiration)
“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.”
– Emily Dickinson (via freins)
“We need never be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken. We think...”
– John Green (via freins)
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently?...”
– Lewis Carroll (via fragilethoughts-)
“I’ve tried so many times to think of a new way to say it — and it’s still I love...”
– Zelda Fitzgerald (via thatkindofwoman)
“Do the moon and sun,
in the breath before dawn, meet
and kiss in secret?”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott) (via spare-key) (via dailydoseofquotes) (via alifeofbeautyandgrace)
“What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I...”
– Anaïs Nin (via light-essence)
