May 2012
Not being assaulted is not a privilege to be earned through the judicious...
–
Emily Nagoski. (via rapeisnotajoke)
This quote is awesome.
(via magesmagesmages)
#Oh my God #THIS #FUCKING THIS #I would like to print this out #and staple it to the forehead of every guy who’s tried to tell me that women ‘just need to be careful about where they go/how they dress/how they...
Gilda got married and went away. None of us saw her anymore. There was one good...
– Bill Murray, about Gilda Radner (via makedubnotwar)
When you see a seventy-pound octopus squeeze
through a hole the size of a...
– aimee nezhukumatathil, “love in the orangery”
I don’t know if it’s harder to be the one who leaves, but it’s certainly not...
– Asia Morela’s Reply to “It’s Harder To Be The One Who Leaves” | Thought Catalog
I would rather be with the people in this room, than with the finest people in...
– Steve Martin, Roxanne
FINALLY, I can link my Facebook account to my Tumblr account so all my friends...
– No one, ever. (via scoldylox)
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
– Mark Twain (via blua)
The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.
– Mark Twain (via blua)
I can carry this
and all that will come after.
I can carry you.
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson
We explain others to ourselves without reference to what were once called their...
– Marilynne Robinson, “On ‘Beauty’” (Tin House, Winter 2011)
the saddest thing ever
brightlightsloudnoises:
i’ve laid with your leg across my belly and your lips on my throat but i still need to stand in the line of fire, at the front of the boat, in the deep end
i don’t know, do you get it?
I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of...
– Violette Leduc (via seabois)
Self-loathing is not a fucking character-builder. It doesn’t make you stronger....
– Jane, Casual Blasphemies (via beautysupremes) (via dallowayward, lipsbetweenthehips)
I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, “You...
– Aaron Sorkin (via thatwasnotveryravenofyou)
It is so comforting to know that even Aaron Sorkin feels this way, because it’s how I feel every. single. time.
(via wilwheaton)
When he left for Korea, I just went upstairs and got in bed and cried and cried....
– Grandma, remembering Grandpa after supper today (via youshouldmindmybeeswax)
How silently the heart pivots on its hinge.
– Jane Hirshfield, “Not Moving Even One Step” (via helplesslyamazed)
I watched a dandelion lose its mind in the wind
and when it did, it scattered a...
– Andrea Gibson (via reverbelation)
gatsby: hey i just met you
gatsby: and this is crazy
gatsby: but i'm going to spend most of my life and wealth in an attempt to pursue you for your stunning vapidness and the warped image of yourself created in my mind as a precursor to my eventual fall
gatsby: so call me maybe
gatsby: old sport
Not the Best
dearoldlove:
I thought you were the best I’d ever have. I’m so glad I was wrong.