December 2009
tonight, i will, once again, sit in my uncle’s living room, family surrounding me, and i will feel as alone as ever. i will have no wine, no vodka, no rum to accompany me. and i will ring in the new year just as depressed as last year.
fanfuckingtastic.
cheated hearts - yeah yeah yeahs
Yukio Mishima: Spring Snow
suzywire:
love-less:
“This year was mine - and now it’s gone,” he cried out to himself. “It’s gone! Just like a cloud dissolving.” The words poured out of him, cruel and unrestrained, lashing him, intensifying his agony. Never before had he given way to such wildness. “Everything has turned sour, I’ll never be carried away with joy again. There’s a terrible clarity dominating everything. As...
“I don’t want to wait anymore. I choose to believe that there is nothing more...”
– Shauna Niequist (via thresca) (via quote-book)
Study: Experiences make us happier than... →
psychotherapy:
…Another reason for increased happiness in experiences, the researchers found, was that people felt a greater sense of vitality or “being alive” during the experience and in reflection, Howell said.
“As nice as your new computer is, it’s not going to make you feel alive,” he said.
Most psychologists who study the phenomenon say people adapt to a new purchase in six to eight...
Instructions by Neil Gaiman
Touch the wooden gate in the wall you never
saw before.
Say “please” before you open the latch,
go through,
walk down the path.
A red metal imp hangs from the green-painted
front door,
as a knocker,
do not touch it; it will bite your fingers.
Walk through the house. Take nothing. Eat
nothing.
However, if any creature tells you that it hungers,
...
13899.) I don't know what to do anymore. Life...
suzywire:
(via blogsecret)
The Starry Night
quote-book:
blogut:
The town does not exist except where one black-haired tree slips up like a drowned woman into the hot sky. The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars. Oh starry starry night! This is how I want to die. It moves. They are all alive. Even the moon bulges in its orange irons to push children, like a god, from its eye. The old unseen serpent swallows up the...
“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.”
– ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (via gatekeeper)
i feel like a ragdoll being fought over by children, always put in the middle of every fucking thing, everywhere, being pulled from all sides.
The loneliness network (The Boston Globe) →
psychotherapy:
The holiday season is entering the home stretch, but flu season is just getting going. And so, we’re warned, the upcoming New Year’s parties and homeward airplane trips and visits to the mall to return our gifts won’t just mean encounters with crowds, they will mean opportunities for infection.
But even as public health officials exhort people to get their shots and sneeze into...
again
i am two weeks late.
i can’t get enough of this song
(AWY FRM U...
“there’s still a little bit of your taste
in my mouth
there’s still...”
– cannonball by damien rice
Readers by Author « Lauren Leto →
“Jealousy is simply and clearly the fear that you do not have value. Jealousy...”
– Jennifer James
“there is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends, i have no...”
–
northanger abby - jane austen
(via scribble-scribbles)
“I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.”
– Mark Twain (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book)
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