April 2012
121 posts
“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”
– Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
(via fourteenth)
whitneymuseum:
“I’m not interested in ‘abstracting’ or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it–drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space. Through your eyes it again becomes an emotion or idea.”
—Willem de Kooning
“We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each...”
– H.G. Wells
beverleyshiller:
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
—
Henry David Thoreau
(via leadingtone)
“This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn’t turn out to be like...”
– Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
“What I write is different from what I say, what I say is different from what I...”
– Franz Kafka
“In my dream I know I am falling. But there is no up or down, no walls or sides...”
– Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
“Being born a woman is an awful tragedy…Yes, my consuming desire to mingle with...”
– Sylvia Plath
“I will love you not just for your wit and talent and beauty, but simply because you are you, with no strings attached. I love you for who you are deep in your soul, not for the color of your eyes or the length of your legs or the size of your checkbook. The longing is that the lover admire us stripped of our external assets, appreciating the essence of our being without accomplishments, ready to...
