December 2010
shewritesaboutlove:
I am an ambitious little girl, with my head too much in the clouds. But today I think I need time - to sort my very cluttered mind. An escape from the trivialities of life, and into the peaceful clearing, where heavy footsteps are muffled by the grass, or the buzzing of the bee is louder than ever… into this place where I can properly hear my thoughts, and listen to the...
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katherine-mansfield:
Please don’t talk of a triumph, even in jest. It makes me hang my head. I wish some day I might deserve your long generous letter - but the day is far off, I realise that. Thank you for it all the same. It came on Xmas day too, and so was a two-fold gift. I think of you…
“There is a pleasure sure
In being mad, which none but madmen know.”
– John Dryden, English writer (via betterwordsthanmine) (via quote-book)
“Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I...”
– Sylvia Plath’s unabridged journals (via sylviaplathismylove)
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with...”
– Maya Angelou (via sugarspiceandeverythingvice)
“”What would you do if I kicked over that tower of blocks?”
“Probably nothing...”
– I Want A Dog For Christmas, Charlie Brown (via elizabethwillow)
“Sunlight darted through the glass roof of the station in long beams of blue and...”
– Something Childish but Very Natural by Katherine Mansfield (via katherine-mansfield)
Quiet Lighting: When you see someone and you... →
likethesun:
When you see someone and you think, “Oh well they’re ugly,” what does that really mean to you? Just that you don’t like their physical appearance? If so… than why does that really matter to you? Are you just bored, so it entertains you to refer to someone as physically ‘ugly’ ? Because I know that…
“Reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life”
– Mario Vargas Llosa (via excessivebookshelf)
“I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.”
– Audrey Hepburn (via hidings) 