May 2012
96 posts
“Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making...”
– Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes (via lindseyhoran)
“I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People...”
– Charles Bukowski, Women
“They don’t realize…
They don’t realize that when people are starving they’re...”
– taking to an Iraqi student about sanctions on Iran (via iranianamrikai)
“He bores me, you know. His maleness bores me. Nothing is so boring as his sort...”
– Gudrun in D.H. Lawrence’s Women In Love (via maozedongisnotcool)
“I am very interested and fascinated by how everyone loves each other, but no one...”
– Perks of Being a Wallflower (via 23quills)
“I’m not fascinated by people who smile all the time. What I find interesting is...”
– Unknown (via creatingaquietmind)
“Shy” was the sympathetic interpretation she got from older people. “Snotty” was...”
– Ann Brashares, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (via creatingaquietmind)
“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
– Wayne W. Dyer (via kari-shma)
“Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for...”
– The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry (via philphys)
“In the air of Tehran, the scent of spring blossoms, carbon monoxide, and the...”
– Censoring an Iranian Love Story, Shahriar Mandanipour (via iranianamrikai)
“Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your...”
– Lauren Oliver, Delirium (via creatingaquietmind)
“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change...”
– Anthony Bourdain (via bohemianspirit)
“My primary relationship is with myself – all others are mirrors of it. As I...”
– Shakti Gawain, Reflections in the Light (via saras-vati)
“Love can come when you’re already who you are, when you’re filled with you. Not...”
– Deb Caletti (via kari-shma)
“Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work’s important,...”
– Nicholas Sparks: Three Weeks With My Brother (via thresca)
“I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents....”
– Henry Rollins (via soul-surfer)
“But I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.”
– Don Cheadle (via nirvikalpa)
There’s always the guy.
There’s always the guy At pub closings Mall food courts Wedding dinners. He wants to sit you down Straighten you out. Tell you how things work. You have it all wrong, you see. He laughs in your face. You listen Because it’s late, or it’s early, You have nowhere to go And no one waiting. His oldest kid is 27, hasn’t seen him in years, but...
