January 2012
3 posts
“Have you seen most of the plus-size sections out there? It’s horrifying....”
– Tim Gunn (via oxblood)
October 2011
6 posts
“Perhaps we dont like what we see: our hips, our loss of hair, our shoe size, our...”
– Sufjan Stevens
“You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to...”
“Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men’s...”
– Francesca Cancian
September 2011
4 posts
“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able...”
– Simone de Beauvoir
July 2011
4 posts
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love...”
– Charles Bukowski
“I always feel like a freak because I’m never able to move on like this, you...”
– Celine, Before Sunset (2004)
“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
June 2011
10 posts
Metaphorical Iconoclasm: Escapism. →
freshfleas:
There is a contentment in diversion, but this is basically just an escape from an underlying discontent that does not really dissipate. For me, there really is no escaping this discontent. The awareness and intensity of my discontent is what makes me obsessed with escaping the conventional…
“You are more than a list of mistakes and if anyone tells you otherwise, let it...”
– I Wrote This For You: The Names They Gave You
“I put my hand on him. Touching him was always so important to me. It was...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
May 2011
1 post
April 2011
4 posts
“The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea.”
– Isak Dinesen
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
– Jack Kerouac
i wish
i documented all of my high-lizations. i don’t smoke weed anymore, but i did for a really long time. then i quit. then i started again. then i quit again…etc. etc.
i love the way my brain works when i am high, but i do not like the inability to be happy in social situations when i am high. i am a very social person, and i love being around all of my friends, as well as meeting new people....
March 2011
18 posts
“There are so many congressmen in my uterus right now, I’m not even sure a fetus...”
– Lizard Breath, a commenter on Shakesville’s “The GOP War on Uteri” post today.
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing...”
– Sylvia Plath
“Maybe that’s what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as...”
– Love The One You’re With, Emily Giffin
Hymn 101 by Joe Pug
Yeah I’ve come to know the wishlist of my father. I’ve come to know the shipwrecks where he wished. I’ve come to wish aloud among the overdressed crowd. Come to witness now the sinking of the ship. Throwing pennies from the seatop next to it. And I’ve come to roam the forest past the village With a dozen lazy horses in my cart. I’ve come here to get eyed To do more...
“I shall love you till that final stretch of sand that the sea never quite...”
– Morrissey
“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most...”
– Anthony Robbins (Submitted by: itumbleon.tumblr.com)
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