February 2012
60 posts
Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by...
Me: what would be a good excuse to use to call in with?
Christine: I don’t know, food poisoning, ectopic pregnancy, you have a whole page of taco bell coupons?
Sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it’s...
– Sarah Dessen (via kari-shma)
Because you simply cannot draw things out forever. At some point, you just pull...
– John Green (Looking for Alaska)
picaresque asked: Marry, fuck, kill: DJ, Big Tommy, Raj. Totally paying you back for my last one
picaresque asked: Marry, fuck, kill: Jack Nicholson circa One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, John Travolta circa Saturday Night Fever, and Trix Rabbit.
picaresque asked: Marry, fuck, kill: Trix rabbit, Adam Lazzara, Ryan Adams.
Who am I? I’m just a writer. I write things down.
I walk through your dreams...
– LITANY by Richard Siken
Why couldn't you stay?
Rootlessness, violence, and dionysian sensuality.
“i lie for only you, and I lie well. Hallelujah.”
it’s just that people are so fickle they fall in love at different angles...
I've seen more spine in a jelly fish
So, is that what you call a getaway? Well tell me what you got away with. Cause I’ve seen more spine in jellyfish. I’ve seen more guts in eleven-year-old kids. Have another drink and drive yourself home. I hope there’s ice on all the roads. And you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt, and again when your head goes through the windshield.
Different pitches of the word shame, like the varying ways I’ve asked you to stay. Lose it all in one sharp turn and maybe that was stupid but I do not care and maybe that exposed me but I do not care and what I think is most important: I do not care.
I take a memory and bury it like the dead thing it is. I kiss the dirt and say,...
– Gina Keicher
There’s ways of killing yourself without killing yourself.
Dog Problems
We are parallel lines We’re running in circles We’re never meant to cross
Can you hear me? Are you listening? This is the sound of my heart breaking And I hope it’s entertaining Cause for me it’s a bitch
He doesn’t know which is worse, a past he can’t regain or a present that will...
– Margaret Atwood- Oryx and Crake
You want to have your cake and eat it too
And you want that security blanket and that fucking shelf at your disposal but you cannot sustain that perfect little bubble you live in.
Life isn’t about being stagnant. Things, people, passions, relationships, they all change, and the sooner you recognize and accept that, the better.
You are just on a shelf for when things get scary.