February 2012
93 posts
“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.”
– David Foster Wallace (via 4mbivalent)
Grammar: The difference between knowing your shit...
“In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because...”
– Zooey Deschanel (via jesseekkah)
The Vow
Paige: I vow to help you love life, to always hold you with tenderness, and to have the patience that love demands. To speak when words are needed, and to share the silence when they're not. To agree to disagree on red velvet cake, and to live within the warmth of your heart and always call it home.
Leo: I vow to fiercely love you in all your forms, now and forever. I promise to never forget that this is a once in a lifetime love. I vow to love you, and no matter what challenges might carry us apart, we will always find a way back to each other.
“When there’s something or someone, when there’s anything that makes you happy,...”
– Dana Reinhardt, The Summer I Learned to Fly (via simply-quotes)
“Life is so full of unpredictable beauty and strange surprises. Sometimes that...”
– Mark Oliver Everett, Things the Grandchildren Should Know (via simply-quotes)
“Positive emotional energy is the key to health, happiness and wellbeing. The...”
– (via makes-me-smile)
“Through a series of experiments, they found that, in general, people tend to...”
– Left-handed? Different bodies, different minds via nouswork (via psychology-terms)
That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives as though you didn’t just experience emotional trauma at the hands of a paperback.
“You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“We’re as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we’re...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“We all want to be remembered. I do, too… I want to leave a mark. But Van...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“I would probably never again see the ocean from thirty thousand feet above, so...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you...”
– ― Nicholas Sparks
“He was the only person in the world she was tongue-tied around, and yet the only...”
– Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen (via simply-quotes)
“Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“… but even so I could get on top of him and take his shirt off and taste...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“I don’t know what I believe, Hazel. I thought being an adult meant knowing...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
even if I had a million reasons to leave, I would still look for one to stay…
“I have to say that although it broke my heart, I was, and still am, glad I was...”
– Markus Zusak, The Book Thief (via simply-quotes)
people: are you mad/sad or something?
me: this is just my face
