"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living."
Eighteen interesting years of living in the mitten. I couldn't regret one minute of it.
Eighteen interesting years of living in the mitten. I couldn't regret one minute of it.
(Source: art-school-wanker)
25th May 2012
Reblogged From l0veandsqualor
Notes: 71
"There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns, patterns that affect other patterns. Patterns hidden by patterns. Patterns within patterns. If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. What we call chaos is just patterns we haven’t recognized. What we call random is just patterns we can’t decipher. what we can’t understand we call nonsense. What we can’t read we call gibberish. There is no free will. There are no variables."
— Chuck Palahniuk
de niro
"You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living."
— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 (via larmoyante)
"I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn’t know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn’t scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost. I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future."
— Jack Kerouac, On the Road (via zooeyfranny)
(Source: fleetingmomentsintime)
You don’t go the the science museum and get handed a pamphlet on electricity.
- me all the time: what am i even doing
"If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print."
—
Lewis Buzbee, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop (via prettybooks)
This is as depressing as it is exalting.
(via alexhasatumblr)
(Source: grizzlyrabbit)
(Source: shygirl364)
"I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via blua)
"I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem."
— Jaime Gil de Bieda (via oceaniceyes)
(Source: light-essence)
"I think that one of these days you’re going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you’ve got to start going there."
— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via bookmania)
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