all I do is kiss you through the bars of a rhyme

"If love have lent you twenty thousand tongues, And every tongue more moving than your..."

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:00:53 -0700

“If love have lent you twenty thousand tongues,
And every tongue more moving than your own,
Bewitching like the wanton mermaid’s songs,
Yet from mine ear the tempting tune is blown;
For know, my heart stands armed in mine ear,
And will not let a false sound enter there;”

- William Shakespeare, “Venus and Adonis”

"I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:32:53 -0700

“I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.”

- Michelle Williams (via crystawl)

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Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:59:07 -0700

"Travel far enough, you meet yourself."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:27:04 -0700

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”

- David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (via innlausn)

"if the ocean can calm itself, so can you. we are both salt water mixed with air."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:59:00 -0700

“if
the ocean
can calm itself,
so can you.
we
are both
salt water
mixed with air.”

- meditation, nayyirah waheed (via nayyirahwaheed)

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(via slackmcnasty)

"People are scary. They hold secrets and thoughts. Unlike animals, they do not thrive on instincts..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:56:33 -0700

“People are scary. They hold secrets
and thoughts. Unlike animals, they
do not thrive on instincts alone. They
have the ability to lie, to cheat, to
steal, to covet, to murder.”

- The World Scares Me Sometimes. (via sadlittlewords)

writing-away: isn’t it ironichow we killflowersbecause wethink thatthey arebeautiful

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:53:35 -0700

writing-away:

isn’t it ironic
how we kill
flowers
because we
think that
they are
beautiful

"You’re a different human being to everybody you meet."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:01:14 -0700

“You’re a different human being to everybody you meet.”

- Chuck Palahniuk (via alexisclara)

"Dirk was going to see X at the Whiskey A-Go-Go. He had a fake ID he had made himself using his new..."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:29:15 -0700

“Dirk was going to see X at the Whiskey A-Go-Go. He had a fake ID he had made himself using his new driver’s license. He had a black leather motorcycle jacket covered with zippers he had found at a musty dusty cobwebs-and-lace thrift store for only ten dollars. He had his warrior mohawk. Kaboodle was sitting next to him on the front seat with gel in his shock of hair and his big paw resting on Dirk’s leg.
The dark club was full of pierced, painted boys with shaved heads. They were slamming in the pit in front of the stage, throwing their bodies against each other in a wild-thing rumpus. Dirk felt that he fit in here much better than at school. Exene wove around with her two-tone hair hanging over her eyes and her arms and legs sticking out of her little black dress like the limbs of a doll that had been thrown around too much. John Doe’s face looked even whiter against his black hair as he twisted it into expressions of torture and ecstasy, baring his teeth or pouting like James Dean. Billy Zoom’s platinum ice devil smile never left his lips as he played his guitar at crotch level. The music made Dirk think of black roses on fire. He wanted to leap onstage and dive into the crowd the way some of the boys were doing. He wanted to play music that would make the boys in the pit sweat like that. Maybe that was how those boys cried, Dirk thought. Maybe he would start a band called the Tear Jerks. For a moment he remembered sitting in his room with Pup, Pup holding the guitar, but he let the drums beat the thought away. His own band. Dirk and the Tear Jerks. Tear Jerk Dirk.
His throat and heart felt tight, constricted with dryness, so he bought a beer and gulped it down. Then he went and stood at the edge of the slammers. Some boys behind him were moving up and down in place, jostling him forward. Finally he flung himself into the writhing body mass. It was like surfing in a way, fighting to stay up above seething waters that wanted to consume you, part of you wanting to be consumed, to vanish into radiance.
“The world’s a mess it’s in my kiss,” X sang.”

- Francesca Lia Block, from Baby Be-Bop (via rustbeltjessie)

"She got up from the table. The cafeteria floor was so sticky that her sneakers made a soft popping..."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 21:28:21 -0700

““She got up from the table. The cafeteria floor was so sticky that her sneakers made a soft popping when she moved; it sounded as if someone was following her. All around her was noise and the sickening smells of grease. Her stomach tumbled, nauseous, and the faces of the other kids eating their lunches glowed with a bilious yellow-greenish light, the color of fear. Why had she talked to him at all?

‘Wait.’

But she was hurrying away from him. In the glass cafeteria wall a girl was running beside her.””

- THE WATERS & THE WILD, Francesca Lia Block (via bookslikedher)

"I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 20:35:04 -0700

““I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.””

- Carl Jung (via rabbitinthemoon)

"If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is..."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 20:33:38 -0700

““If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.””

- C.S. Lewis (via jamesleyr)

"If you’re in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 20:01:16 -0700

“If you’re in pitch blackness, all you can do is sit tight until your eyes get used to the dark.”

- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via erikaftw)

"You can kill a man but you can’t kill an idea."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:49:28 -0700

““You can kill a man but you can’t kill an idea.””

- Medgar Evers (via quotedojo)

forthosewhocravefashion: ~Do NOT delete the text~ Please read...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:47:57 -0700

forthosewhocravefashion:

~Do NOT delete the text~

Please read carefully!! Okay so Tumblr Pen Pals is back.. after like a three month hiatus. The purpose is to get different bloggers to talk to one another and receive a nice anonymous message from someone you don’t know until the end of the month, like a secret santa sort of thing. Anyways, it usually works and people get really excited about it, except me… when I have to go through hundreds of blogs and to make sure you follow each rule below. Please do, putting blogs into randomized pairs and messaging them takes days, okay?

THE RULES:

you don’t have to follow me, don’t worry lol.

You can like this, but reblog to spread the word, you never know there might be lonely bloggers with nothing to do for the summer. But only choose one. Either reblog once. or like once. Because then it gets confusing.

MUST HAVE THE ANONYMOUS OPTION OPEN. If you don’t like the idea of a secret santa, then go through your followers and become friends with them off anonymously, because this is a secret santa sort of thing!

Must be an active blog, a lot of inactive bloggers want to join, but then don’t message their person. So I will be checking archives, if you’re on tumblr daily then that’s fine :)

Please track the tag julypenpals for updates. I might ask you guys to message me on that day because it’s going to be hard to message everyone with tumblr’s ask limit. lol.

Don’t worry, the pairs won’t be like you’re messaging the person who’s sending you the message. It’s a random pair thing. Any questions please go to my page, and then look for pen pal questions, if you’re question isn’t there please just ask me. :)

Choosing pairs on June 30th, 2013!

women of greek mythology - circe (Κίρκη) In Greek...

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 19:32:31 -0700

_{women of greek mythology - circe (Κίρκη)}

_{In Greek mythology, Circe is a minor goddess of magic (or sometimes a nymph, witch, enchantress or sorceress). Having murdered her husband, the prince of Colchis, she was expelled by her subjects and placed by her father on the solitary island of Aeaea. Later traditions tell of her leaving or even destroying the island and moving to Italy. In particular she was identified with Cape Circeo there. (+ more)}

"Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:00:41 -0700

“Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass.”

- Confucius, philosopher and teacher (c. 551-478 BCE)

"I couldn’t live where there were no trees— something vital in me would starve."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 08:00:38 -0700

“I couldn’t live where there were no trees— something vital in me would starve.”

- Anne’s House of Dreams, L.M. Montgomery (via fromliterature)

"You are not a drop in the sea. You are the entire sea in a drop."

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:46:01 -0700

“You are not a drop in the sea.
You are the entire sea in a drop.”

- (via sublimesea)

"The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions."

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:32:34 -0700

“The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions.”

- Susan Sontag (via quotesandnonsense)