January 2012
2 posts
We all know fear. But passion makes us fearless.
– Paulo Coelho (via thresca)
A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and...
– Dr. Patricia Hill Collins quoting Public Allies CEO Paul Schmitz in her talk Answering the Call to Community Service. (via sexartandpolitics)
If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.
– Albert Einstein (via kari-shma)
December 2010
2 posts
As Harold took a bite of Bavarian Sugar Cookie, he finally felt as if everything...
– Karen Eiffel, Stranger Than Fiction
…there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among...
– Nicole Krauss (The History of Love)
November 2010
3 posts
That’s how sex is presented to boys - it’s not intimacy; it’s not the loving,...
– feminist Don McPherson, on rape culture and educating boys to not rape (via agoosedrankwine)
August 2010
4 posts
I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my own...
– Mari (Haruki Murakami’s After Dark) (via wordsinthesky) (via yeahharukimurakami)
A strange, terrific force unlike anything I’ve ever experienced is sprouting in...
– Haruki Murakami (via thehaunter) (via merricat) (via yeahharukimurakami)
Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality,...
– Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami | earlyfrost, charlottecorday, keatsandyeatsonyourside (via watchtheskyexplodinghigh) (via yeahharukimurakami)
July 2010
2 posts
Nostalgia - its delicate, but potent. Teddy told me that in Greek nostalgia...
– Don Draper, Mad Men - “The Carousel” (via quote-book)
June 2010
13 posts
He liked all books because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of...
– An Abundance of Kathrines - John Green (via lalalacia) (via quote-book)
We have two eyes and just one tongue, which means...
littlemiss:
(via fiancaa, ayeeitskristin)
Everything’s a story. Stories are what help us make sense of the world.
– The Lookout (via julie911) (via quote-book)
I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that...
– Dave Eggers, What Is the What (via anditslove)
I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it is made illegal
– Warning by Incubus | via: kraftcity (via quote-book)
It’s weird, like when you’re in love, all of a sudden you’re hearing all of...
– (via idareyoutoclickthis)
May 2010
9 posts
A hug can turn your day around, it’s like an emotional Heimlich. Someone puts...
– Pushing Daisies (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent...
– Nick Hornby, High Fidelity (via anditslove)
still have yet to read the book but one of my fav movies. your all time top 5…
April 2010
7 posts
I had learned one thing from Kizuki’s death, and I believed that I had...
– Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
In the deepening spring of May, I had no choice but to recognize the trembling...
– Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
March 2010
18 posts
I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the...
– Shana Abé
via hermaeness
(via quote-book)