January 2012
6 posts
Love is the will to extend one’s self for the purpose of nurturing...
– M. Scott Peck
Imagine him as a cruel villain with a cape and a mustache and a grand,...
– Alison, Hi.: The art of getting really dumped
People come and go— they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost...
– Nicholas Sparks
Today you became a yesterday, when once you were a tomorrow.
– I Wrote This For You
This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world,...
– Franz Kafka
When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew.
– Arrigo Boito
December 2011
3 posts
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making...
– Neil Gaiman
1 tag
Everything is a struggle. Everything is a miracle.
– Stan Rice (via circledonamap)
Perhaps he had been waiting all along for someone to knock him down and allow...
– Simon Van Booy, (Love Begins in Winter)
November 2011
3 posts
And there will come a time, you’ll see, with no more tears. And love will not...
– Mumford & Sons
6 tags
Just because a love can’t last doesn’t mean it wasn’t real,...
– Anaïs Escobar, You’ve Escaped: Love Notebook #9
If you keep a green bough in your heart, the singing bird will come.
– Chinese Proverb
October 2011
6 posts
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because...
– Walt Disney
But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever...
– Haruki Murakami
Now that I’ve found you, it scares me witless to think of anything...
– Zoe Archer
So you know what I mean when I say that I don’t think anyone who falls in...
– Jodi Pocoult
4 tags
For a minute, therapy feels like magic, as if there’s someone who knows...
– Anaïs Escobar, you’ve escaped: AP Feelings & Composition; or how I ended up in therapy
September 2011
4 posts
I think it’s naive to pray for world peace if we’re not going to...
– Godfrey Reggio
3 tags
I know that there is a lion and a wild love so true, so savage that you cannot...
– Anaïs Escobar, a bright wall in a dark room.: Beginners (2011)
When two people meet and fall in love, there’s a sudden rush of magic.
– Tom Robbins
4 tags
Words are our most inexhaustible source of magic.
– Steve Kloves, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt. 2
August 2011
6 posts
Some people meet the way the sky meets the earth— inevitably, and there is no...
– Louise Erdrich
It’s usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny...
– Saul Bellow
I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk...
– Sara Gruen
It was right then, between when I asked about the labyrinth and when she...
– John Green
He didn’t just kiss, he claimed ownership. Took her mouth with urgency, as...
– Karen Marie Moning
I did not understand how quickly one could fall in love, and I regarded almost...
– Mary Lydon Simonsen
July 2011
6 posts
You know how is it when you love someone? And the hard part, the bad part, the...
– Neil Gaiman
I love her for what she has dared to be, for her hardness, her cruelty, her...
– Anaïs Nin
Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget...
– Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
Each night I imagine my heart is a spinning ball of light that shines brighter...
– I Wrote This For You
It occurred to her that in every relationship in which she had participated, in...
– Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
A true soul mate is probably the most important person you’ll ever meet,...
– Elizabeth Gilbert
June 2011
15 posts
When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn’t make the darkness go...
– Neil Gaiman
You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.
– Isadora Duncan
1 tag
And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he’d never...
– Nicole Krauss
1 tag
Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have...
– David Byrne
3 tags
My heart stumbled a little, but the tenderness in his voice kept me from...
– Myra McEntire, Hourglass
3 tags
They were exactly what the other needed; the missing piece that made everything...
– Jennifer McMahon, Don’t Breathe a Word
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I...
– Buddha
Tragedies do happen. We can discover the reason, blame others, imagine how...
– Paulo Coelho
I’m lonely. And I’m lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash...
– Augusten Burroughs
Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under,...
– Tina Fey
She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous...
– Jonathan Safran Foer
Strange how someone you once loved can become just another person you once knew.
– Nicki Minaj
I wanted to be with him forever. I marveled at how such a monumental realization...
– Emily Giffin
Light hits the eyes the universe gave me. Time throws slow punches but they hurt...
– I Wrote This For You
May 2011
4 posts
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.
– Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland