August 2012
43 posts
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It may be hard for us females to accept, but do we blame our pets for humping stuffed animals? No. Like our pets, men take it where they can get it.
-tbrumm
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make sure it’s the person you want a future with, rather than just wanting the future and using this person as a portal for getting there.
-tbrumm
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it was having my nose pressed against your chest while your arms encased my fragility, my hands gripping your shoulders and slipping to the small of your back as you lifted yourself to be just far enough out of my reach, when i realized that this is how it would always be—me forcing people into places and spaces that don’t fit them.
-tbrumm
“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
– Rumi (via myquotelibrary)
“You don’t get to choose, you just fall in love. And you get this person who is...”
– (via all-yours-somehow)
“We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been...”
– Galway Kinnell (via myquotelibrary)
July 2012
38 posts
“People will kill you over time, and how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless...”
– Dylan Moran, What it is (via jaythemaniac)
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
– Dr. Seuss (via kari-shma)
“The question one should ask themselves is: Do you want to be right or do you...”
– From Meditations with Native American Elders: The Four Seasons (via perfectpersoninprogress)
“I’m not saying that at some point love isn’t staying up until 2am phone calls or...”
– (via loveyourchaos)
“Someone you haven’t even met yet is wondering what it’d be like to know someone...”
– Iain Thomas (via thatkindofwoman)
“Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they...”
– Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts (via simply-quotes)
“I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a...”
– Maya Angelou (via myquotelibrary)
“I never confused what I had with what I was.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via kari-shma)
“I was shown how fragile life was on Saturday. I saw the terror on bystanders’...”
– Jessica Redfield was shot and killed last night at a midnight screening of ‘The Dark Knight Rises,’ along with 11 others when a gunman opened fire in a theater. The above is from her blog, written in June, after she narrowly escaped another senseless shooting at a mall in Toronto.
“Love is more about being the right person than finding the right person.”
– Barbara Bartlein (via myquotelibrary)
“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via lebellecoeur)
“If it’s true, does it have to be nice? If you have something true to say, but...”
– Megan Hart, All Fall Down (via simply-quotes)
“What you’re called is hardly ever who you are.”
– Jodi Picoult (via wrists)
“All I’m saying is, where relationships are concerned, don’t confuse length with...”
– Matt Dunn (The Ex-Boyfriend’s Handbook)
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish...”
– Anaïs Nin (via aquaticwonder)
“She knew that she was strong enough to bear whatever might come in her life as...”
– Ruth Park, from Poor Man’s Orange (thanks, ramblingsoflaur)
“Unfortunately we do treat others as we treat ourselves. We should try being...”
– Erica Goros (The Daisy Chain)
“I find it really offensive when people say that the emotional experiences of...”
– John Green (via myquotelibrary)
“When jealousy rears up, it indicates that something inside of you is afraid....”
– Anthony D. Ravenscroft (via myquotelibrary)
“What kills love? Only this: Neglect. Not to see you when you stand before me....”
– Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body (via runawaytrain)
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Finding the right guy is like dress shopping in a thrift store, they all have flaws. If they didn’t, they wouldn’t have been given up for other women to peruse over and take home at a discounted price.
-tbrumm
“It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the...”
– Jonathan Tropper, This Is Where I Leave You (via simply-quotes)
“When you’re happy, you enjoy the music. But, when you’re sad, you understand the...”
– Frank Ocean. (via disposablenights)
“The conversation between your fingers and someone else’s skin. This is the most...”
– (via debilitating)
“But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would...”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via thatkindofwoman)
“Dress for the story that you’d like to have people know about you before you...”
– Rachel Roy (via hercrossroads)
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Have you ever felt time was passing slow enough for you to watch your relationships either evolve or deteriorate into exactly what you always knew they would be?
-tbrumm
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FUN-DAMENTAL
After college, where does fun get you? You can’t put fun on your resume, you won’t get paid more because you’re fun, you don’t make close friends just because you’re fun. Be something permanent, rather than a fleeting moment of amusement.
-tbrumm
“I always have someplace else I’d rather be, even if I don’t know where that is.”
– Ann Aguirre, Aftermath (via simply-quotes)
“The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”
– Michael Altshuler (via leslieseuffert)
“We don’t forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they...”
– Bree Despain (via kari-shma)
“Because I think that sometimes, when you really love somebody, you don’t ask...”
– Nicole Peeler (Tracking the Tempest) 