October 2011
“My tears are like the quiet drift of petals from some magic rose; and all my...”
– Dylan Thomas (via bookmania)
“Autumn teaches us that fruition is also death; that ripeness is a form of decay....”
– Gretel Ehrlich, The Solace of Open Spaces (via whiskey river)
“1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via bloodcurdlingsameness)
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“Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via bookmania)
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Lotus FLower - Radiohead: Cover -...
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Cassandra
This city had become so dull. There was nothing left for me here, and I was thinking of leaving. Well to be perfectly honest, I was already at the train station, about to buy a ticket out of here, anywhere. I turned around to take one last look at this dreadful place, and then I saw her.
She was just standing there, staring at me, with this sly sort of grin on her face. It was as if she knew...
“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
– Jack Kerouac, On the Road. (via theinbetweenyears)
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“Winter is coming
and only the cold knows how
I love you in snow.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
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October
October has returned once again, this month of falling leaves and pumpkin everything. The weather has begun to change, and the slight drop in temperature brings with it that inevitable sense of longing. There’s just something innately lonely about watching your breath leave you, as if even that which sustains you has grown tired of residing within you.
I’ve moved my sweaters to the front of...
“I hate this feeling. Like I’m here, but I’m not. Like someone cares. But they...”
– Ellen Hopkins (via misswallflower)
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“My patronus is Carl Sagan.”
– (via heyoscarwilde)
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“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very...”
– Virginia Woolf (via wunderlast)
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