January 2012
2 posts
We are programmed from kindergarten, from the first time the inevitable...
– Jonathon Tropper - How To Talk To A Widower
I’m not ready for time to heal this wound, but I also know I’m...
– Jonathon Tropper - How To Talk To A Widower
November 2011
1 post
He looks out into the empty street, allowing me to sit in his car and just miss...
– Jay Asher - Thirteen Reasons Why
October 2011
2 posts
…at some point it doesn’t matter who was right and who was wrong. At...
– Jonathon Tropper - This Is Where I Leave You
Our minds, unedited by guilt or shame, are selfish and unkind, and the majority...
– Jonathan Tropper - This Is Where I Leave You
August 2011
1 post
This, finally, was love. This was its shape and essence, once the lust and...
– The Slap, Christos Tsiolkas
June 2011
2 posts
Can’t.fucking.breathe.
Take me away, to anywhere but right here right now.
As much as I needed this release, when did I get so weak?
May 2011
1 post
April 2011
1 post
If its the past you love then that’s where you can stay
– Yellowcard. For You, And Your Denial
March 2011
3 posts
If someone leaves you because they don’t love you, it’s a tough...
– Jonathon Tropper, Plan B
February 2011
6 posts
My hands are cold, my body’s numb I’m still in shock, what have you done My head is pounding, my vision’s blur Your mouth is moving, I don’t hear a word And it hurts so bad that I search my skin For the entry point, where love went in And ricochet and bounced around And left a hole when you walked out I’m falling through the doors of the emergency room Can anybody...
January 2011
13 posts
I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with...
– Roald Dahl (via prettybooks)
Why secondhand bookstores smell good
constantwanderlust:
starsmending:
teachingliteracy / downlo:
Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute,...
De-clutter
I’m such a hoarder that I’m finding myself an incredibly ridiculous person. 7 bags of random stuff down the rubbish chute and a much neater cupboard now. Of course, knowing me, it’ll just get filled up in no time again.
Much neater cupboard, much calmer heart. You and all your peripherals, gifts, birthday cards, love notes; will sit at that corner of my cupboard as a memory. Not...
myelephantine:
There are over 6500 languages in the world, yet here I am, struggling to find the proper translation of my heart.
December 2010
5 posts
November 2010
11 posts
WINNIE THE POOH: Movie Trailer - Video (via Metacafe)
This made me really happy <3
我的愛被你放空 連未來都沒收
只留下一屋的寂寞
我的心開始放空 叫我怎麼生活
時間變成一個黑洞 最後終於把我 吞沒
- 放空
Need to stop listening to sad Chinese songs on rainy days
Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than...
– Margaret Atwood (via quote-book)
October 2010
14 posts
Your heart just breaks, that’s all. But you can’t judge, or point fingers. You...
– Audrey Hepburn (via quote-book)