June 2012
183 posts
showswelove:
“i need to stop,” i whispered as i clicked next episode.
“But if you never go to sleep, then you can’t oversleep,” the show replied.
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“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with...”
– Carl Sagan (via olanthanide)
“In the beginning, she had haunted me, haunted my dreams, but even now, just...”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska
“The times that were the most fun seemed always to be followed by sadness now,...”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska
“The Colonel said, “I just want to save her so bad,” and I said,...”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska
“But it ain’t our feelings we have to steer by through life—no, no,...”
– L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
“I’ve been here before, dreaming myself backwards, among grappling hooks of...”
– Yusef Komunyakaa (via sleepinginthesnow)
“A sailor,” he said, “chooses the wind that takes the ship from safe port … but...”
– Avi, The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle (thanks, beautyofmonotony)
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Superfly
In the tropics, they say, a body can become a moving mass of maggots in 24 hours.
But first they embalmed you, and then they put you in a coffin, and then they buried you deep underground, so I suppose it would take much longer.
If you were left on the ground, for the crows and insects, only your bones would remain after 2 weeks.
It’s been 2 months, and you are buried deep. They used a...
“Not just any man is respectable, and no woman wants to find out the hard way,...”
– Nancy Wilson
I have left you my hope to remember me by, Though now there is little resemblance. At this moment I could believe in no change, The mast perpetually Vacillating between the same constellations, The night never withdrawing it’s dark virtue From the harbor shaped as a heart, The sea pulsing as a heart, The sky vaulted as a heart.
— W S Merwin
“We see things not as they are but as we are.”
“Your words are worth nothing if your actions don’t back them up; if you...”
“Memory is the most important asset of human beings. It’s a kind of fuel; it...”
– Haruki Murakami (via her0inchic)
