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"Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:07:10 +0800

“Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.”

- David Levithan (via erraticintrovert)

"I keep thinking you already know. I keep thinking I’ve sent you letters that were only ever written..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:02:25 +0800

“I keep thinking you already know. I keep thinking I’ve sent you letters that were only ever written in my mind.”

- Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You (via look-to-the-trees)

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man, true nobility is being superior to your..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 02:00:26 +0800

“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man, true nobility is being superior to your former self.”

- Ernest Hemingway (via lizattemptstoblog)

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Tue, 21 May 2013 12:10:03 +0800

"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:08:58 +0800

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”

- A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway (via literarylust)

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Tue, 21 May 2013 12:07:28 +0800

"Each time I’m asked to tell about myself, I find myself starting the same way: “My name is Kelsey..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 12:04:57 +0800

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Each time I’m asked to tell about myself, I find myself starting the same way: “My name is Kelsey and I’m nineteen..”
but what I’d really like to say is:
“My name means island of the ships but once
I found a translation that said I’m a burning shipwreck-
not a burning ship but a ship that has caught fire
after the wreckage and well, I’d say that’s more fitting.”

I’ve learned that people don’t have time for about me’s.
They need two things: a name and an indication you’re someone special.

The doctors, they want facts not details.
“I broke my leg when I was three, it’s a funny story actually-“
The right or the left?
Conversation over.

The teachers, they want interests, hobbies.
You’re sad, yes, but what do you like to do?

The adults are a spew of questions.
What school do you go to? What classes are you taking?
What do you plan on becoming? Got a boyfriend?
No, stop.

People my own age are the worst.
“I’m planning on an English degree with a concentration in creative writing.”
Yeah, aren’t we all. So how many times have you, you know,
done it?

I’m pulled apart, my interests travelling highway 2
my goals at a stop light at traffic hour,
my medical history on a billboard for the world to see.
But what about me?

Where’s the chance to say,
“I hang on to fistfuls of poetry like loose change in my pockets,
and I keep waiting for the day that the world turns upside down
so I can swim with the stars.
I’m not afraid of darkness, it’s a loneliness I can empathize with it.
It’s the blackholes like cigarette burns inside of me that get troublesome.
I walk through graveyards and read the dashes between years,
each a story I’ll never know. Sometimes I create my own.”

No wonder none of us know who we are anymore.

”

- Kelsey Danielle, “I Was Told to Write an About Me and This is What Happened” (via commovente)

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Mon, 20 May 2013 21:47:28 +0800

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"I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:45:20 +0800

“I am
a series of
small victories
and large defeats
and I am as
amazed
as any other
that
I have gotten
from there to
here.”

- “The People Look Like Flowers At Last” by Charles Bukowski (via honeychurch)

"I want to fill my mouth with your name."

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:43:05 +0800

“I want to fill my mouth with your name.”

- Pablo Neruda (via larmoyante)

I haven’t been posting much in my #Cars tag recently. I should fix that. I’ve still got...

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:41:12 +0800

I haven’t been posting much in my #Cars tag recently. I should fix that. I’ve still got over 20 pages of backlogged posts to get through first though. :/

donimal: And this is how Porsches are born.

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:33:13 +0800

donimal:

And this is how Porsches are born.

bestwheelbase: Damn right I got the blues.

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:31:44 +0800

bestwheelbase:

Damn right I got the blues.

"I’ll tell every one in the world that you are the only one that matters."

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:29:56 +0800

“I’ll tell every one in the world that you are the only one that matters.”

- Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time (via larmoyante)

"It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love,..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:28:50 +0800

“It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.”

- Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot (via larmoyante)

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:26:02 +0800

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”

- Anaïs Nin (via larmoyante)

"On the darkest days you have to search for a spot of brightness, on the coldest days you have to..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 14:24:18 +0800

“On the darkest days you have to search for a spot of brightness, on the coldest days you have to seek out a spot of warmth; on the bleakest days you have to keep your eyes onward and upward. And on the saddest days, you have to leave them open to let them cry. To then let them dry. To give them a chance to wash out the pain in order to see fresh and clear once again.”

- Tahereh Mafi, Unravel Me (via larmoyante)