March 2011
1 post
November 2010
1 post
September 2010
6 posts
We’re actors in our lives, pretendin’ to be who we want people to think we are.
– Perfect Chemistry, Simone Elkeles (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
I like boys on swings and girls on slides
I like babies in high chairs.
I like...
– Skins
I often feel like I want to think something but I can’t find the language that...
– Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You, Peter Cameron (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
The world is waiting.
I meet a person, and in my mind I’m saying three minutes; I give you three...
– The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, Amy Hempel (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
August 2010
3 posts
And I’m suppose to sit by while you date boys and fall in love with someone...
– City of Glass, Cassandra Clare (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes) (via musicloudvoicesquiet)
July 2010
5 posts
Here’s to all the places we went. And all the places we’ll go. And here’s to me,...
– An Abundance of Katherines, John Green (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
What they failed to teach you at school was that the whole business of being...
– A Spot of Bother, Mark Haddon (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life.
– The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society, Mary Ann Shaffer (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t...
– The Kindly Ones, Neil Gaiman (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
June 2010
7 posts
The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with...
– Elizabeth Bishop