December 2010
“Sit in the sun, fall asleep, wish away. Soul is cheap, lesson learned, wish me...”
– Kurt Cobain (via justlosinghope)
“Almost every time somebody gives me a present, it ends up making me sad.”
– J.D. Salinger ( Catcher in the rye )
“Nothing can match the treasure of common memories, of trials endured together,...”
– Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (via lostinthesounds)
“Grandfather’s been dead for all these years, but if you lifted my skull,...”
– Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Secret Garden
“And here is the handle, and here is the door. Dickon push him in-push him in quickly!” And Dickon did it with one strong, steady, splendid push. But Colin had actually dropped back against his cushions, even though he gasped with delight, and he had covered his eyes until they were inside and the chair stopped as if by magic and the door was closed. Not till then did he take them away...
“There should be a statute of limitation on grief. A rule book that says it is...”
– My Sister’s Keeper
“Wearily on I go, pain and misery my only companions. And vast intelligence, of...”
– Marvin, the Paranoid Android (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“You - you alone will have the stars as no one else has them…In one of the...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (El Principito / The Little Prince)
“Spinning like a ghost
on the bottom of a
top,
I’m haunted by all
the space...”
– Richard Brautigan, “Boo, Forever” (via aubade)
“With him, life was routine; without him, life was unbearable.”
– Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
“Atticus said to Jem one day, “I’d rather you shot at tin cans in the...”
– Harper Lee ( To Kill a Mocking Bird )
“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to...”
– Jack Kerouac (On the Road)
“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain...”
– Milan Kundera (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
“High high in the hills , high in a pine tree bed.
She’s tracing the wind...”
– — Ken Kesey (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)
“His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning wreckage of the island;...”
– William Golding (Lord of the Flies)
“Did you eat something that didn’t agree with you?” asked Bernard....”
– Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)
“For she had embodied the Great Perhaps—she had proved to me that it was...”
– John Green (Looking for Alaska) 