“Everybody wants to go fast, but they can’t compare. I don’t really want the rest, only you can take me there. I don’t even know what I’m saying, but I’m praying for you.”
—American - Lana Del Rey
June 2013
35 posts
“If you want to succeed in your life, remember this phrase: That past does not equal the future. Because you failed yesterday; or all day today; or a moment ago; or for the last six months; the last sixteen years; or the last fifty years of life, doesn’t mean anything… All that matters is: What are you going to do, right now?”
—Anthony Robbins (via larmoyante)
“That’s what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when you’re not so lovable.”
—Deb Caletti, The Fortunes of Indigo Skye (via intensifyit)
“Your mind is not a cage. It’s a garden. And it requires cultivating.”
— Libba Bray (via usagai)
“All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. This madness can be saving; it is part and parcel of the ability to adapt. Without it, no species would survive.”
—Yann Martel, Life of Pi (via larmoyante)
“In water, like in books—you can leave your life.”
—Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water (via styleandstarbucks)
“I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.”
—Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning (via larmoyante)
“My life is a reading list.”
—John Irving (via bookmania)
May 2013
63 posts
“My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.”
—Charles Dickens, David Copperfield (via bookmania)
“I love her and that’s the beginning and end of everything.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald about Zelda Fitzgerald in a letter to a friend dated Febuary 1920 (via rosettes)
Florence + the Machine - Over The Love
while there is a huge discrepancy between “commercial” and “great”, there are things that are great enough not to be viewed through the magnitude of its commercialism, and this is one of such things
“At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon.”
—F.Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (1920)
