May 2013
11 posts
They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves.
– Friedrich Nietzsche, from Thus Spoke Zarathustra (via violentwavesofemotion)
April 2013
17 posts
You’re laughing. When you laugh, I want to transform the entire world so it will...
– Vladimir Nabokov (via talisman)
March 2013
23 posts
I have sculpted your body from the dust on the doorknob.
I hoarded your name in...
– Sierra DeMulder, from “Your Love Finds Its Way Back” (via weissewiese)
I bought plum blossoms
more for the name
than for the color;
I buy lipstick...
– Dorothea Grossman, “Untitled” (via undare)
By all means, very few things or activities emotionally transfix me on the...
– Edward Albee, from an interview with the Academy of Achievement, 2005 (via violentwavesofemotion)
Remember the poem? Come on! You know the calendar never matters. I feel the...
– Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait In Letters (via violentwavesofemotion)
We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away,...
– Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking (via awritersruminations)