April 2011
49 posts
1 tag
2 tags
1 tag
5 tags
3 tags
3 tags
5 tags
We should have made note of the broken branches, we should have looked up at the smoky sky, warning the witless pretensions of lovers— the greater the hope is, the greater the lie. True kindness in love means staying quite sober, weighing each link of the chain you must bear. Don’t promise her heaven—suggest half an acre; not “unto death,” but at least to next year. And don’t keep declaring, “I...
2 tags
3 tags
4 tags
5 tags
5 tags
5 tags
3 tags
9 tags
I lay flat on my back in the ambulance, feeling the summer night flash by warm...
– Donna Tartt, The Secret History
5 tags
1 tag
3 tags
We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and...
– My favourite book in the entire world.
4 tags
4 tags
1 tag
3 tags
6 tags
4 tags
6 tags
4 tags
3 tags
2 tags
3 tags
1 tag
2 tags
4 tags
2 tags
3 tags
3 tags
6 tags
5 tags
3 tags
Most often love does not choose a body as its object unless an emotion, such as...
– Marcel Proust (via fuckyeahproust)