February 2010
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All my life I have been on the brink of either a break down or a break through.
– - Etta James (via astroinquiry)
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unlitstairs:poetbabble:
Who am I, you ask? I don’t know, my friend. I am all the languages I ever spoke, I am all the places I ever lived, I am all the people I ever met, I am all the women I ever loved, I am all the writers I ever read; I am all my ancestors – but at least they had the decency of never thinking of themselves as writers. Who am I, you ask? I don’t know, my friend; I don’t even...
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Francesco Chiacchio →
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Memories often overwhelm you.
But changes have their own charm,
It frees one...
– - Kim Kyoungae
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I kept waiting for some sign of life. It wasn’t because of love that I...
– The Land of Green Plums - Herta Muller
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I wanted love to grow back, like the grass when it’s mown down. To grow differently, if need be, like children’s teeth, like hair, like fingernails. To spring up at will, wild and untended. The chill of the sheets made me shudder, and so did the warmth that followed when I lay down.
- The Land of Green Plums Herta Muller
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Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as...
– Neil Gaiman (via wordpainting) (via thehermitage)
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I want to strip you naked and see your inner self, the one you keep hidden...
– - Mistress Matisse
via Whispering Willow
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I postpone death by living,
by suffering, by error, by risking,
by giving, by...
– - Anais Nin
(taken from leblochable.tumblr.com)
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She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors...
– Angela Carter, The Lady of the House of Love (via thehermitage)
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