January 2012
8 posts
“Love cures people -
both the ones who give it
and the ones who receive it.”
– Dr. Karl Menninger
“And now I’m looking at you,” he said, “and you’re asking me if I still want you,...”
– Cassandra Clare
“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