August 2011
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You know, they say that there is a part
of the human chest that if you strike...
– Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, excerpt from Not As Smart As I Think I Am (via grammatolatry)
rampage, anyone?
feel like i’ve seen too much shit to want anything otherwise.
better to wound than be wounded, right?
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At first
the bed fell open
always at the right page.
Next
she lay between...
– Sue Wootton, Synopsis
(via grammatolatry)
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A good way to fall in love
is to turn off the headlights
and drive very fast...
– Kevin Prufer, In a Beautiful Country (via grammatolatry)
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That time I thought I was in love
and calmly said so
was not much different...
– Each From Different Heights by Stephen Dunn
(via grammatolatry)
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I want to know how it will end.
I want to be sure of what it will cost.
I want...
– Nicole Blackman, What I Want For Christmas (and other holidays where we speak of dead men)
new year, a new canvas to paint
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There used to be someone
to whom I could say do you
love me and be sure that...
– Miriam Waddington, Someone Who Used to Have Someone (via grammatolatry)
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Sacrifice
This is
the beginning - the golden dance of
universal courtship, of alky meeting
flame; its lilting hope
of something other
worldly, when first came the
infatuation, both gripping and
bold. Then passion stirred,
red and raw, like a
lion grazing its paw, along its prey, their
hot skins touching and
mingling, deep
into the night.
I would never hurt you,
but that’s hardly true.
You...
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If you ever want something badly, let it go. If it comes back to you, then it’s...
– Blake Lively (via heartgrenade)
to summer, and its eventual end.
A cool June night in the hammock, I spill some wine down your
shirt, you bite...
– Alexander Long: Fireflies at Midnight (via grammatolatry)
What matters most is how well
you walk through the fire.
– Charles Bukowski
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There were always in me, two women at least, one woman desperate and bewildered,...
– Anaïs Nin (via misswallflower)