"the women of the past keep honing. there was another yesterday arrived from out of state. she wanted to see me. I told her “no.” I don’t want to see them, I won’t see them. it would be awkward gruesome and useless. I know some people who can watch the same movie more than once. not me. once I know the plot once I know the ending whether it’s happy or unhappy or just plain dumb, then for me that movie is finished forever and that’s why I refuse to let any of my old movies play over and over again for years."
- Charles Bukowski, Girlfriends
(via drinkingdrinks)
"There’s two kinds of women—those you write poems about and those you don’t."
- Jeffrey McDaniel (via sleepingtigers)
"And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us."
- Pablo Neruda (via cordura)
"You’re the only girl I’ve seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night (via thelittleyellowdiary)
(Source: evoketheforms, via thelittleyellowdiary)
"They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via daisyslight)
(via thislifeorthenext)
"I was satisfied with haiku until I met you,
but now I want a Russian novel,
a 50-page description of you sleeping."
- D. Young (via schouler)
"If I knew where
I was going next,
I wouldn’t be taking so many naps,
or reading all these books,
trying to divine my future
in pillow cases
and stitched book bindings,
lost in the small decisions
of each day,
only a little bit numb.
I am the inevitable wanderer
the girl who always says
goodbye,
but never knows
how to leave."
- Anna (Topographe), “A poem about being lost” (via slategraysmiles)
(via framecrooked)
"You know what’s wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You’re chicken, you’ve got no guts. You’re afraid to stick out your chin and say, “Okay, life’s a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that’s the only chance anybody’s got for real happiness.” You call yourself a free spirit, a “wild thing,” and you’re terrified somebody’s gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you’re already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it’s not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It’s wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself."
- Breakfast at Tiffany’s (via prima-volta)
(via vargg)
"She was a peculiar little thing—in every sense of the word. Narrow feet, dainty ankles, with the smile of a siren and lightning crackling through her heart."
-
(Source: apenforaknife, via e-v-o-c-a-t-i-o-n-s)
"So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!"
-
Mr. Black, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
(via framecrooked)
"My body is a dead language and you pronounce each word perfectly."
- Sierra DeMulder
(Source: cordura)
"You haven’t lived if at the end of the day your knees aren’t green and your tongue isn’t purple."
