Waking Up Asleep

"There is only one heart in my body, have mercy on me."

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:44:33 -0400

“There is only one heart in my body, have mercy on me.”

- Franz Wright (via waitingforteaagain)

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Tue, 21 May 2013 17:31:03 -0400

"The first sentence of every novel should be: “Trust me, this will take time but there is order here,..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:23:15 -0400

“The first sentence of every novel should be: “Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very human.” Meander if you want to get to town.”

- Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion (via commovente)

"How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?"

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:16:19 -0400

“How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?”

- Virginia Woolf, from Selected Essays (via lonur)

"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:25:06 -0400

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.”

- James Baldwin (via east-of-everything)

5000letters: Shahir Zag

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:58:31 -0400

5000letters:

Shahir Zag

Welcome back. I was glad to see you back on my dash again. Stay strong.

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:45:43 -0400

Thank you so much, lovely. <3

where have you been? what's been going on with you? how are you doing now?

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:39:16 -0400

Hello Stranger,

I was in residential for 10 weeks receiving treatment for an eating disorder. The adjustment home has been difficult but I KNOW that things within me are different now. I understand myself better than I ever have and am so utterly grateful for everyone I met inpatient. I will not paint a romanticized picture of life on the other side of treatment, but I think I’ll be okay.

"At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:35:14 -0400

““At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning. Words spoke to you, gave up their secrets; at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader.””

- Alberto Manguel (via thelifeofabookjunky)

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Tue, 21 May 2013 14:31:34 -0400

"Sometimes we don’t even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:32:20 -0400

“Sometimes we don’t even realize what we really care about, because we get so distracted by the symbols.”

- Tom Wolfe (via atelierellsworth)

"I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:27:44 -0400

“I have dreamt in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.”

- Emily Brontë, “Wuthering Heights”
1847 (via winged-serpent)

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Tue, 21 May 2013 13:18:38 -0400

"He looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that’s partly why they love me, and..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:09:42 -0400

“He looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that’s partly why they love me, and partly why they leave.”

- Jeanette Winterson (via thinklikeapinup)

"Judge every experience in life as either good or bad, not based on how much pleasure or pain it..."

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:54:38 -0400

“Judge every experience in life as either good or bad, not based on how much pleasure or pain it brought, but based on how beautiful or ugly it made your heart.”

- Yasmin Mogahed (via thelittlephilosopher)

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Mon, 20 May 2013 18:43:18 -0400

"On the face of her phone Wileen programs a message to herself so that when the alarm clock rings the..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:21:45 -0400

“

On the face of her phone
Wileen programs a message to herself
so that when the alarm clock rings
the screen flashes:
EVERY DAY IS ONE DAY LESS.
EVERY DAY IS ONE DAY LESS.

For some people
happiness
it’s just a reduction in suffering.

Jordan.
Jordan tattoos the words
FORGIVE ME
in thick black letters
down the inside of his arm
so that when he looks at his wrist
he will remember not to hate himself so much.

What he keeps forgetting
is that there is life after survival.

”

- Buddy Wakefield (Human the Death Dance)

"You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can’t sleep at night, because your..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:02:58 -0400

“You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can’t sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live.”

- Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing (via serialstranger)

kittenmeats: “Thumbelina” (1954) - Lotte Reiniger

Fri, 17 May 2013 11:50:15 -0400

kittenmeats:

“Thumbelina” (1954) - Lotte Reiniger

didyoudrinkmygingerale: a phonologist, a morphologist, a syntactician and a semantician walk into a...

Thu, 16 May 2013 22:07:41 -0400

didyoudrinkmygingerale:

a phonologist, a morphologist, a syntactician and a semantician walk into a bar.

the bartender says, “oh, linguists? hey, would you mind explaining to me what exactly a word is?”

a massacre ensues and nobody survives.

Love this.