December 2011
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I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part behind continues the other life that you could have had. #jeanettewinterson
With the sun perched in the sky, you are drenched in a shower of rain. This is how memories invade me, abruptly and unexpectedly: drenched, I am suddenly left alone again on a sunny path, with memory of the rain. #RLIT
I know what it means to be caught between tradition and change. I’ve been in the middle of it all my life. #RLIT
She lived by startling statements that she blurted out in a most awkward manner. #RLIT
The sun and clouds that defined Nassrin’s infinite moods and temperaments were too intimate, too inseparable. #RLIT
In all great works of fiction, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life, an essential defiance. #RLIT
I had internalized the fear, so that I did not think of it always consciously, but I had insomnia; I roamed the house and I read and fell asleep with my glasses on, often holding onto my book. With fear come theirs and the justifications that no matter how convincing, lower our self esteem. #RLIT
A prisoner’s meekness is a prison’s pride.
Is it not sinful to feel pleasure when reading about something so terrible?#RLIT
The novels we escaped into led us finally to question and pros our own realities, about which we felt so helplessly speechless. #RLIT
“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is...”
– Charles Dickens; A Christmas Carol (via wordpainting)
“Sometimes it’s easy to feel like you’re the only one in the world who’s...”
– One Tree Hill (via raindropsonredroses)
I thought that’s just the way things are. Human beings, in the final analysis, have to survive on their own. #murakami
Meaning was fixed to the temporal, and the temporal was trying to force me to rise to the surface. #murakami
Every story has a time to be told, I convinced her. Otherwise you’ll be forever a prisoner to the secret inside you. #sputniksweetheart #murakami
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“if I had my way I’d stay here forever”. “if I had my way, me too. But what can you do? Wonderful things always come to an end.” #murakami
There’s one thing I can say for sure: I wish you were here with me. Even though I have Miu with me, I’m lonely being so far away from you. If we were even farther apart, I know I’d feel even more lonely. I’d like to think you feel the same way. #murakami
“Right. They aren’t. Sometimes I get so frightened, like everything I’ve done up till now is wrong. I have these realistic dreams and snap wide awake in the middle of the night. And for a while I can’t work out what’s real and what isn’t…. That kind of feeling.” - Sputnik Sweetheart
And this love is about to carry me off somewhere. The current’s too overpowering; I don’t have any choice. It may very well be a special place, some place I’ve never seen before. Danger may be lurking there, something that may end up wounding me deeply, fatally. I might end up losing everything. But there’s no turning back. I can only go with the flow. Even if it means...
“Courage, Jonathan! That’s the only way to live. And remember, bravery isn’t...”
– The Secret Letters of The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma (via kari-shma)
The Earth doesn’t creak and groan its way around the sun just so human beings can have a good time and a bit of a laugh. #murakami
In the infinite loneliness of space, what could Laika possibly be looking at? #sputniksweetheart
A dark world aches for the splash of the sun. #youngthegiant #lyrics
Don’t pointless things have a place in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life and it’d lose even it’s imperfection. #sputniksweetheart
An intense love, a veritable tornado sweeping across the plains- flattening everything in its path, tossing things up in the air, ripping them to shreds, crushing them to bits. #sputniksweetheart
“Be thankful for every heartbreak, for they were planned. They come into your...”
– (via raindropsonredroses)
“Love is about taking risks. And maybe, if we forgave ourselves and we forgave...”
– (via raindropsonredroses)
“It’s not that I believe everything happens for a reason. It’s just that I think...”
– (via raindropsonredroses)
“After a while you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and...”
– (via raindropsonredroses)
“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and...”
– Orson Welles (via r-manticist)
“A story should be told only when a listener is ready to hear it.”
– Julian, The Secret Letters of The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma (via kari-shma)
Never try to find the meaning of your existence in someone else. There is no explaining the hollowness afterwards. #thoughts
But you know Hajime, some feelings cause us pain because they remain. Don’t you think so? #murakami
The more I thought about it, the less I seemed to understand. #southoftheborderwestofthesun #murakami
I’ve come to realise that every time I read a book, there’s a part of me that changes, morphs, and is invariably changed. It’s a scary thought.
Will you give me a hug? One of those breath stealing, long lasting ones that go on for days and remind me that things will be okay again?
“‘Because sometimes I have a need for human warmth,’ I answered...”
– Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
“I miss you terribly sometimes, but in general I go on living with all the energy...”
– Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
“If someone doesn’t love you, they won’t show too much patience and they won’t...”
– (via victoriouswanderer)
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“I keep silent for the fear that if I do speak, if I do give voice to my...”
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“All our battles are in places where no one else can reach them. Deep, deep...”