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aseaofquotes: Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:06:18 -0700

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

"The relationship you have with the world is just like any other relationship. Every now and again,..."

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 10:31:34 -0700

“The relationship you have with the world is just like any other relationship. Every now and again, even if it’s pissed you off for no good reason, you have to look it in the eyes and say: I love you.”

- I Wrote This For You: The World Loves You Too (via kari-shma)

"People always say that when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that’s not true, is..."

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:47:56 -0700

“People always say that when you love someone, nothing in the world matters. But that’s not true, is it? You know, and I know, that when you love someone, everything in the world matters a little bit more.”

- “Handle with Care” by Jodi Picoult (via kari-shma)

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken...."

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:40:23 -0700

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”

- C.S. Lewis (via kari-shma)

langleav: For Michael. xo

Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:48:03 -0800

langleav: For Michael. xo

almost exactly 4 years ago, I wrote this:

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:56:22 -0800

i am not

beautiful, modelesque, feminine, glamorous, curvaceous, a natural beauty, graceful, a smooth-talker, a social butterfly, the type of girl that turns heads when she walks into a room.

i am comfortable, scrubby, laidback, tattooed, a beer drinker, clumsy, a comic book nerd, sometimes awkward, a little bit shy, the kind of girl that blends in as one of the boys.

i would rather wear my velcro vans than a pair of red stilletos. i don’t look good in lingerie, but i love to wear your oversized sweatshirts. i would rather go to a dive bar than a club. if you offer me a wine spritzer or whiskey on the rocks, i’ll choose the whiskey. i don’t giggle, i laugh.

i’ve been told i’m not feminine enough by the guys i’ve dated. but i’m looking for someone who will appreciate me for who i am. i can take care of myself, but i still want to be loved.

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

I’m happy to announce that I have not changed an ounce, but I have found a wonderful someone who does appreciate me for who I am. And moreso, he loves me for who I am.

Maybe one day I will write out our story in simple words and cartoon robots. And maybe one day you will be able to find our story with a coffee ring on its dust cover sitting on a shelf in your (or my) favorite used bookstore.

love, my dear, is a fickle thing.

Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:31:44 -0800

kari-shma: ♥ (by *Cinnamon)

Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:12:36 -0800

kari-shma: ♥ (by *Cinnamon)

"There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts."

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 11:55:16 -0800

“There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.”

- Neil Gaiman (via kari-shma)

"You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that..."

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 09:30:13 -0800

“You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.”

- Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green (via quote-book)

rosesandrain: favorite tiny story.

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 13:28:14 -0800

rosesandrain:

favorite tiny story.

neil-gaiman: expectation-less: “May your coming year be filled...

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:51:31 -0800

neil-gaiman:

expectation-less:

“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.” -Neil Gaiman

My first New Year’s Message, and still the best of them. Tonight I’ll write a new one, and I do not yet know what it will say.

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Tue, 25 Dec 2012 09:41:52 -0800

"She was gone, and all that was left was the space you’d grown around her, like a tree that grows..."

Sat, 22 Dec 2012 12:20:22 -0800

““She was gone, and all that was left was the space you’d grown around her, like a tree that grows around a fence. For a long time, it remained hollow. Years, maybe.””

- Nicole Krauss, The History of Love (via sellyourcleverness)

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:44:24 -0800

“We accept the love we think we deserve.”

- Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower (via catchingelephants)

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Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:51:10 -0800

"In ‘love’ one has found, at last, a haven from aloneness."

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 19:50:46 -0800

“In ‘love’ one has found, at last, a haven from aloneness.”

- Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving (via greetingsimabeing)

"The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own."

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:29:31 -0800

“The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own.”

- Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin (via helplesslyamazed)

"I really don’t know what ‘I love you’ means. I think it means ‘Don’t leave me here alone.’"

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:27:32 -0800

“I really don’t know what ‘I love you’ means. I think it means ‘Don’t leave me here alone.’”

- Neil Gaiman (via align)

"I love you crookedly because my heart’s been unhinged from birth. The doctors gave me strict..."

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:25:26 -0800

“I love you crookedly because my heart’s been unhinged from birth. The doctors gave me strict instructions not to fall in love: my fragile clockwork heart would never survive. But when you gave me a dose of love so powerful - far beyond my wildest dreams - that I felt able to confront anything for you, I decided to put my life in your hands.”

- Mathias Malzieu, The Boy with the Cuckoo-Clock Heart (via helplesslyamazed)