October 2010
17 posts
Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez (via thechocolatebrigade)
Being a zombie
This post will be a huge disappointment to anyone researching zombies/the zombie apocalypse.
Anyone else suffering from the dreaded senioritis? It’s made a zombie out of me, and I am not used to this. I’m looking forward to graduation, not because it means there’s a new phase in my life or any of that good stuff, because it’s a break and a chance to do something else....
They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.
– Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut (via thechocolatebrigade)
Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and...
– Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Tom Robbins (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an...
– Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (via thechocolatebrigade)
Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative...
– Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions (via thoughtsdetained)
There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can...
– Björk
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Velleities and Carefully Caught Regrets: If You... →
conversationslips:
I want you to know one thing.
You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me.
Well,...
Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being,...
– How To Be Alone: Essays, Jonathan Franzen (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
Be curious, not judgemental.
– Walt Whitman (via ourlittleromance)
Listen: I am ideally happy. My happiness is a kind of challenge. As I wander...
– Vladimir Nabokov (via thechocolatebrigade)