December 2011
75 posts
If you take a book with you on a journey,…an odd thing happens: The book begins...
– Cornelia Funke, Inkheart (via infinitives)
Know that some people come into your life as blessings,
and others come into...
– (via nonelikejesus)
Don’t settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a...
– Chis McCandless in a letter as quoted by Jon Krakauer in Into The Wild (1996)
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He thought, What if I stayed here? Let the sun swallow me, and the orange dazzle...
–
Zadie Smith, “Hanwell Snr” (from The Book of Other People, ed. Zadie Smith)
I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile,...
– Roald Dahl, Danny, the Champion of the World (via derbosewolf)
We dated and she’s an incredibly important person that I lived with for a long...
– Justin Vernon on the meaning behind Skinny Love (via saddest-summer)
Your insecurities are arguments with God. He is telling you that you are loved...
– Matt King (mattkinger.tumblr.com)
You see, there are two different types of hope in the world. One is hoping for...
– Pete Wilson (Plan B)
Things are going so well. We’re volleying words back and forth. Everything she...
– Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (via followandreblog)
Be brave enough to break your own heart.
– DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #64: Tiny Beautiful Things - The Rumpus.net (via leopoldgursky)
You don’t have a career. You have a life. Do the work. Keep the faith. Be true...
– DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #64: Tiny Beautiful Things - The Rumpus.net (via leopoldgursky)
Unsolicited Writing Advice You Want →
leopoldgursky:
By Elissa Bassist
And be glad and confident.
–
Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (trans. Stephen Mitchell)
You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you,...
–
Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (trans. Stephen Mitchell)
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… let go of that other more linear story, with its beginning, middle, and end,...
– Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water (via leopoldgursky)
If I could go back, I’d coach myself. I’d be the woman who taught me how to...
–
Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water
(via leopoldgursky)
See? There are spaces between things. What you thought was nothingness carries...
–
Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water
(via leopoldgursky)