"All colors made me happy: even gray.
My eyes were such that literally they
Took photographs."

~   Pale Fire (excerpt) by Vladimir Nabokov (via seabois)

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"There is ecstasy in paying attention."

~   Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird (via Risky Wiver)

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"I dreamed
of you, last
night, and send
a Carnation to
indorse it—"

~   Emily Dickinson, from a letter to Susan Gilbert, c. 1876 (via proustitute)
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"Everything you can imagine is real."

~   Pablo Picasso (via seabois)

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"I am a cage, in search of a bird."

~   Franz Kafka (via skeletales)

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"In my dreams the world would come alive, becoming so captivatingly majestic, free and ethereal, that afterwards it would be oppressive to breathe the dust of this painted life."

~   Vladimir Nabokov
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"I know you are reading this poem as you pace beside the stove
warming milk, a crying child on your shoulder, a book in your hand
because life is short and you too are thirsty."

~   from “XIII (Dedications),” Adrienne Rich  (via clavicola)

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"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close."

~   Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets: Cien sonetos de amor (via seabois)

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"You either like me or you don’t. It took me twenty-something years to learn how to love myself, I don’t have that kinda time to convince somebody else."

~   Daniel Franzese (via mmmmilk)

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"I’ve spent so much time in my head and in my heart that I forgot to live in my body."

~   Tara Hardy, Bone Marrow (via incisio)

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"No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart."

~   The Great Gatsby (via seabois)

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"This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."

~   On the Road by Jack Kerouac (via moldavia)

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