January 2010
90 posts
“Only the shallow know themselves.”
– Oscar Wilde (via mkat21)
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power....”
– Washington Irving (via brokenmachine) (via thefloralsofa) (via geometricity)
mypeterpancomplex:
bunnymitford:
Franny has the measles, for one thing. Incidentally, did you hear her last week? She went on at beautiful length about how she used to fly all around the apartment when she was four and no one was home. The new announcer is worse than Grant — if possible, even worse than Sullivan in the old days. He said she surely dreamt that she was able to fly. The baby...
“You really shouldn’t say ‘I love you’ unless you mean it. But if you mean it,...”
– Jessica, age 8, on love. (via thelovelybones)
“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know...”
– Billy, age 4, on love. (via thelovelybones)
thelovelybones:
When my best friend and I were young, we went to a fantasy gift shop together. We both wanted to buy Harry Potter wands, but my friend’s mom wouldn’t pay for hers. My mom offered to pay for both, but the salesmen told us he’d give us a special buy-one-get-one-free discount as long as we used them against Voldemort. We laughed and it GMH. // (credit for showing me)
bunnymitford:
When you’re a teenager and in your early twenties [love] seems desperately eternal and excruciatingly painful. Whereas as you grow older you realise that most things are excruciatingly painful and that is the human condition. Most of us continue to survive because we’re convinced that somewhere along the line, with grit and determination and perseverance, we will end up in some...
“What we see and what we seem are but a dream, a dream within a dream.”
– Miranda, Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) (via mypeterpancomplex)
