There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.
Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker (via the-book-diaries)
Brienne Christopher Bull
Mammatus skies at Ross Lake, Washington
“I do not know how long regret lived in our house before it finally evicted us.”
— Desireé Dallagiacomo, from Sink
“I am not well; I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.”
— Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice (via the-book-diaries)
Jack Gilbert, from “Before Morning in Perugia”, Collected Poems
“What is it that brings on these moods of yours? Nothing mysterious: the ordinary pain of being alive.”
— Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil
“Missing you comes in waves. Tonight, I am drowning.”
— From the song by Jason Lancaster.
“It is nothing; I am here; I am still here.”
— Arthur Rimbaud, from What Are They To Us… in “Selected Poems And Letters” [translated by Jeremy Harding and John Sturrock]
I want you to undress me to the sound of all your defenses collapsing.
Lora Mathis (via wordsnquotes)
“Once, a white girl was kidnapped & that’s the Trojan war. Later, up the block, Troy got shot & that was Tuesday. Are we not worthy of a city of ash?”
— Danez Smith, “Not An Elegy for Mike Brown”