May 2013
“The more you know of who you are and what you want, the less you let things...”
– Lost in Translation (via samsaranmusing)
“That’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via durianquotes)
ERYKAH BADU: What do you, as a man, envy about what it means to be a woman?
KENDRICK LAMAR: There’s just a certain knowledge instilled in a woman. There are these things that women have that men just can’t grasp: the understanding of love; the understanding of being; having a certain type of care in your heart and knowing when to be compassionate; knowing how to be a confidante…
“You have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they...”
– Hanif Kureishi (via ohwittlephamnator)
“One writes out of one thing only — one’s own experience. Everything depends on...”
– James Baldwin (x) (via ahorton92)
Listen
“Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive.”
– Hafiz (via loveyourchaos)
“People empty me. I have to get away to refill.”
– Charles Bukowski (via lumisays)
“It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it...”
– Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing (via larmoyante)
How do you know you’re in love?
—COMMON: Man, I know I’m in love when I think about her a lot and I’m finding ways to get to that person. Even though I gotta work, even though I gotta take care of other responsibilities, I’m like yo, when am I gonna fly out and see that person? I look forward to seeing them.
—KENDRICK LAMAR: How do you know you’re in love? When your heart feels it instead of your mind and your penis don’t. You know, it’s deeper than that… That’s when you know.
—PETE ROCK: Oh man you feel it right here, *touches heart*, right there, it’s like cupid’s shooting you in the heart, that shit’s just BOOW! Lots of people say they don’t believe in love at first sight, but I do, it’s happened to me.
—A$AP ROCKY: You know you in love cuz you don’t want nobody else but that person. You know, that’s how you know for sure. Like you could see a million other bad bitches, but you know, but it don’t even matter, you stuck.
—BIG BOI: Your heart flutters a little bit, you like to kiss on the mouth a lot, your neck get hot when you kiss on the mouth, that type of stuff. Stuff like that, yea.
—QUESTLOVE: I THINK WHEN THAT PERSON CONSUMES YOU.
“Finding you was like coming home.”
– 6-Word Story #81 (via calloway)
“Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work— it’s a rare thing to...”
– Dean Koontz (via barf-worthy)
Mario - Let Me Love You
In a relationship. I guess I will cease to be interesting to the rest of the world now. haha.
“We are so used to releasing words, we don’t know what to do with them if they...”
– David Levithan, The Realms of Possibility (via larmoyante)
“That’s how you know you love someone, I guess, when you can’t experience...”
– Kaui Hart Hemmings (via 33113)
“I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you,...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via durianquotes)
“You are not a drop in the ocean.
You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
– Rumi (via mrvonnegut)
“He found her most beautiful not when she was all fancied up, but when she...”
– (via feralcreature)
When you find something special, don’t let it go.
“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated (via 33113)
Frank Ocean - Forrest Gump (Grammy Rehearsal...
“Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.”
– Scott McCloud (via larmoyante)
April 2013
“Sweetheart, I’ve been frightfully busy but you know I have thought of you every...”
– Scott Fitzgerald to Zelda Fitzgerald, March 1919 (via weepling)
“Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it’s...”
– Frank Peretti (via jofar)
My mind is a mess.
“Never allow loneliness to drive you into the arms of someone you know you don’t...”
– Unknown (via wethinkwedream)
Tyler, The Creator - Awkward
Don’t let the world make you cold or harden your heart.
“You always want the detail that you can’t explain.”
– Robert Lowell (via theparisreview) 