May 2013
I’ve learned to value failed conversations, missed connections, confusions. What...
– Anna Kamienska, from A Nest of Quiet: A Notebook (translated by Clare Cavanagh)
It’s about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and...
– Sofia Coppola, Lost in Translation
But I have seen the best of you and the worst of you, and I choose both.
– Sarah Kay and Phil Kaye, An Origin Story
Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.
– Richard Linklater
I'm the girl that turns those good, nice boys...
We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be...
– Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
ghostam:
How relationships work:
I like your butt. However, I can notice other butts. They can be nice too.
But your butt is my favourite butt. It’s the nicest butt. Because it’s mine. And I can touch it.
You’re still going to get criticized, so you might as well do whatever the fuck...
– Kathleen Hanna
One of the best feelings in the world is knowing your presence and absence both...
She laughs
Holding her cigarette
High in the air
Smoke sifting off
Ignored...
– Charles Bukowski
April 2013
This may sound vague and dismal but it is all I can think of at the moment; I am...
– Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West dated 8th September 1928
Do you know, darling? When you became involved with others you quite possibly...
– Franz Kafka, Letters To Milena
So here’s my advice: Study broadly and without fear. Learn a language if you...
– John Green