January 2012
4 posts
“If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”
– Lemony Snicket (via floralnymph)
“When the Pawn Hits the Conflicts He Thinks Like a King What He Knows Throws the Blows When He Goes to the Fight and He’ll Win the Whole Thing ‘Fore He Enters the Ring There’s No Body to Batter When Your Mind Is Your Might So When You Go Solo, You Hold Your Own Hand and Remember That Depth Is the Greatest of Heights and If You Know Where You Stand, Then You Know Where...
My new old fav
Love ridden, I’ve looked at you With the focus I gave to my birthday candles I’ve wished on the lidded blue flames Under your brow And baby, I wished for you Nobody sees when you are lying in your bed And I wanna crawl in with you But I cry instead I want your warm, but it will only make Me colder when it’s over So I can’t tonight, baby No, not baby’ anymore - if I...
December 2011
1 post
“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the...”
– Anaïs Nin (via mmmmilk)
October 2011
3 posts
“All you people wound us when you reject us. Rejection strips us of our self...”
– Gloria Anzaldua
“Asombra pensar que nos hemos quedado en ese pozo oscuro donde el mundo encierra...”
– Gloria Anzaldua
“The Answer between the white race and the colored, between males and females,...”
– Gloria Anzaldua
September 2011
5 posts
“Feminism…Potentially the most threatening of movements to Black and other...”
– Barbara Smith
“Feminism is the political theory and practice to free all women: women of color,...”
– Barbara Smith
Maggot: [singing] What does that wispy little brat have that you don’t have double? Black Widow Spider: [singing] She can’t hold a candle to the beauty of your smile! The Corpse Bride: How about a pulse? Maggot: Overrated by a mile! Maggot & Black Widow Spider: [singing] Overvalued! Overblown! If he only knew the you that we know! Black Widow Spider: [singing] And that silly...
Tell me my dear, can a heart still break once it’s stopped beating?
August 2011
2 posts
“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
– Zora Neale Hurston (via funkchunk)
POWERFUL QUOTE.
(via she-hulk-smash)
“Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier...”
– Homer, The Iliad (via letsgobananas)
June 2011
7 posts
The Devil and Miss Prym
Once upon a time, a man, his horse and his dog were traveling along a road. As they passed by a huge tree, it was struck by lightning, and they all died. But the man failed to notice that he was no longer of this world and so he continued walking along with his two animal companions. ‘It was a long, uphill walk, the sun was beating down on them and they were all sweating and thirsty. At a...
“My mind was a record playing at the wrong speed, spinning back over events I...”
– A Yellow Raft in Blue Water (via quote-book)
May 2011
23 posts
“At the temple, there is a poem called ‘Loss’ carved into the stone. It has three...”
– Memoirs of a Geisha (via chihimekuratsuki)
“Fine, I am sick of your mess! Without any assistance or guidance from you, I...”
“You can’t love somebody with that much hurt in them. I’m learning...”
“A rapist doesn’t have to be a stranger to be legitimate. Someone you never...”
“Being alive and being a woman is all I got, but being colored is a metaphysical...”
“Save your “sorry.” One thing I don’t need are anymore...”
“I got a real dead loving here for you now, because I don’t know anymore...”
“Silence is so freaking loud.”
– Sarah Dessen (Just Listen)
“Music is about triggering memories for people, that’s what it is, that’s what it...”
– Thom Yorke (via thonny)
i believe that marriage isn't
between a man & woman
but between love and love
all we ever do is say goodbye
Just when I had you off my head Your voice comes thrashing wildly through my quiet bed You say you wanna try again But I’ve tried everything but giving in Why you wanna break my heart again Why am I gonna let you try When all we ever do is say goodbye All we ever do is say goodbye All we ever do is say goodbye All we ever do is say goodbye I bought a ticket on a plane And by the...
“Well, it’s New Year’s now but I don’t feel that way anymore. I wonder if you do...”
– Sarah Dessen, Dreamland (via theprincessleah)
“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get.”
– W.P. Kinsella (via kari-shma)
“Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we...”
– Mother Teresa (via kari-shma)
“Sometimes I think the human heart is like a simple shelf. There’s only so much...”
– Jodi Picoult; House Rules (via quote-book)
April 2011
4 posts
Abre la puerta de tu celda oscura Y deja que silencie tus gritos con besos Abre la puerta de tu Prisión de dolor Y cubrete entre mis brazos mi amor Abre le puerta, yo te lo imploro Abre la puerta de tu alma muda
“He had never told her certain things, about the women he received as part of the...”
– “Brida”, Paulo Coelho (via shamayimmeanssky)
March 2011
35 posts
