February 2009
18 posts
“Nothing is more necessary than the unnecessary”
– Life is Beautiful (via filmquotes)
gasoline season
havent-got-a-prayer:
Summer days smelled of gasoline and suntan lotion. Our feet made nests in the beach foam. Love was a paper airplane, carried on the wind. You and I were just two conversations floating over someone’s head. Our compass toes always pointed to wherever we wished to go. It didn’t matter. Nothing mattered. You were the hand that filled mine and I could have gone anywhere...
rentedsurroundings:
peoplefish:
Have you ever wondered how much could have been done in a single second. Imagine this. Take a picture of anywhere and slow it down to the speed of a nanosecond. Where everything lingers in mid-action. A drop of sweat hangs frozen in mid air. A fly stops inanimatedly. The cars in Times Square stop. A woman taking a step forward with her right foot pauses...
“the world was to me a secret, which i desired to discover; to her it was a...”
salinger
Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll...
“another thing is no matter how much you think you love somebody, you’ll...”
– INVISIBLE MONSTERS
“we had a lot going for us. we’d found the secret glue that held all things...”
“and this i believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the...”
– EAST OF EDEN
safran foer
Does it break my heart, of course, every moment of every day, into more pieces than my heart was made of, I never thought of myself as quiet, much less silent, I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that wedged itself between me and my happiness wasn’t the world, it wasn’t the bombs and burning buildings, it was me, my thinking, the cancer of never...
“stop trying to control everything and just let go.”
“i like to see people reunited, i like to see people run to each other, i like...”
– EXTREMELY LOUD & INCREDIBLY CLOSE 