“And when you laugh I swear the storm inside me calms”
“Will you love me in December as you do in May?”
— Jack Kerouac, The Town and the City (via
amargedom)
kipplekipple:
“I don’t want to die, I just don’t want to exist any more” sounds mild if you’ve never experienced it, but it is in fact a horrible, violent way to feel.
“I am tired of being human. And angry at feeling so much love. Some days I am angry just to be alive.”
“I’m a master of speaking silently—all my life I’ve spoken silently and I’ve lived through entire tragedies in silence.”
“Her heart was made of liquid sunsets.”
“Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you
upon the wind, Run on the top of the dishevelled tide, And dance
upon the mountains like a flame.”
— William Butler Yeats,
The Land of Heart’s Desire (via
alteringminds)
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.”
“But how can I explain them that
I don’t want to be a stargazer,
but a galaxy;
not a poet,
but a poem”
“The hours between 12am and 6am
have a funny habit of making you feel
like you’re either on top of the world,
or under it.”
“Nobody is perfect until you fall in love with them.”