May 2013
“I knew that I had come face to face with someone whose mere personality was so...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via erraticintrovert)
“If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one...”
– Adrienne Rich (via erraticintrovert)
Relativity.
shadow-writer:
I don’t think about you much anymore.
I don’t think about air either, but I need it to breathe.
“And so I am feeling numb. It’s a curious feeling, and I get it all the time. My...”
– Laurie Halse Anderson, Madness (via seabois)
“you’ll have to be careful,
my otherness
will spoil you
ruin you
after me,...”
– Warsan Shire, “Day Three” (via lifeinpoetry)
“introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is...”
– susan cain, author of “quiet” (via ectomorrrph)
“Those doing soul work, who want the searing truth more than solace or applause,...”
– Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (via erraticintrovert)
Broken When I Got Here: Poem Written After... →
williamtaylorjr:
Today it was three glasses of wine before I could leave a message on your phone,
and then I got drunk while waiting for mine to ring,
my head full of worlds that no longer exist,
like the first time I saw you walk into a room like somebody just turned on the sun
and how you looked in…
“I was broke, I was on my knees. You said “yes,” as I said “please.”
– Not With Haste, Mumford & Sons (via rainydaysandblankets)
“I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit (via larmoyante)
“If you’re looking around the room, and you’re the smartest person in the room,...”
– Lorne Michaels (via jonnyskov)