lonelysister

"There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark… Their place in your heart is..."

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:28:15 -0400

““There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark… Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless.””

- Sara Zarr, Sweethearts

"I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars."

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 09:57:17 -0400

“I was as hollow and empty as the spaces between stars.”

- Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye (via larmoyante)

"We all like to think the world ends when we do. The truth is our acquaintances, our friends, and our..."

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 21:03:44 -0400

“We all like to think the world ends when we do. The truth is our acquaintances, our friends, and our loved ones all live on, and through them, so do we. It’s not about what you had, but what you gave. It’s not about how you looked, but how you lived. And it’s not just about being remembered. It’s about giving people a good reason to remember you.”

- Tonya Hurley, Ghostgirl (via larmoyante)

"Life, he says, doesn’t have to be so bad all the time. We don’t have to be anxious about everything...."

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 20:54:18 -0400

“Life, he says, doesn’t have to be so bad all the time. We don’t have to be anxious about everything. We can just be. We can get up, anticipate that the day will probably have a few good moments and a few bad ones, and then just deal with it. Take it all in and deal as best we can.”

- John Corey Whaley, Where Things Come Back (via larmoyante)

"There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won’t remember and that she..."

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 20:47:44 -0400

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There are a hundred things she has tried to chase away the things she won’t remember and that she can’t even let herself think about because that’s when the birds scream and the worms crawl and somewhere in her mind it’s always raining a slow and endless drizzle.

You will hear that she has left the country, that there was a gift she wanted you to have, but it is lost before it reaches you. Late one night the telephone will sign, and a voice that might be hers will say something that you cannot interpret before the connection crackles and is broken.

Several years later, from a taxi, you will see someone in a doorway who looks like her, but she will be gone by the time you persuade the driver to stop. You will never see her again.

Whenever it rains you will think of her.

”

- Neil Gaiman (via larmoyante)

"Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear,..."

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:10:27 -0400

“Hatred would have been easier. With hatred, I would have known what to do. Hatred is clear, metallic, one-handed, unwavering; unlike love.”

- Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye (via helplesslyamazed)

"Adventure is a state of mind and spirit."

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:36:51 -0400

“Adventure is a state of mind and spirit.”

- J. Cochran (via kari-shma)

"Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to..."

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:52:00 -0400

“Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.’”

- Lisa St. Aubin de Terán (via kari-shma)

"But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them...."

Tue, 24 Jul 2012 12:47:19 -0400

“But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the passing of time, yet happy ones could never be recreated - not with the same joy. Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.”

- Rohinton Mistry; A Fine Balance (via creatingaquietmind)

"Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it."

Sat, 14 Jul 2012 23:46:52 -0400

“Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.”

- L.M. Montgomery, The Story Girl (via kari-shma)

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Wed, 04 Jul 2012 15:52:36 -0400

"She touched my face. ‘I will never forget you. I can never forget you.’"

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 08:01:26 -0400

“She touched my face. ‘I will never forget you. I can never forget you.’”

- The Stone Gods, Jeanette Winterson (via helplesslyamazed)

"Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I’m gazing at a distant star. It’s dazzling, but the light is..."

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:51:41 -0400

“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I’m gazing at a distant star. It’s dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago. Maybe the start doesn’t even exist anymore. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”

- Haruki Murakami (South of the Border West of the Sun)

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"I’ve had enough, this my prayer that I’ll die living just as free as my hair."

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:49:40 -0400

“I’ve had enough, this my prayer that I’ll die living just as free as my hair.”

- Lady Gaga

"You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through..."

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:46:52 -0400

““You will find the way, daughter of the forest. Through grief and pain, through many trials, through betrayal and loss, your feet will walk a straight path.””

- Juliet Marillier, Daughter of the Forest (via Swanfeather Songs)

"I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality..."

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:43:59 -0400

“I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.”

- Virginia Woolf, Night and Day (via helplesslyamazed)

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:41:26 -0400

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”

- Douglas Adams (via quote-book)

"Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up..."

Tue, 03 Jul 2012 09:40:22 -0400

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”

- Louisa May Alcott (via julie911)

"All life includes loss. It’s taken me many, many years to learn to deal with that, and I don’t..."

Tue, 29 May 2012 01:34:24 -0400

“All life includes loss. It’s taken me many, many years to learn to deal with that, and I don’t expect I’ll ever be fully resigned to it. But that doesn’t mean we have to turn away from the world, or stop striving for the best that we can do and be. We owe that much to ourselves, at least, and we deserve whatever measure of good may come of it.”

- Ken Grimwood, Replay (via larmoyante)

"And that is when I know… that is when I understand that it’s better to feel the ache inside me like..."

Mon, 21 May 2012 16:41:57 -0400

“And that is when I know… that is when I understand that it’s better to feel the ache inside me like demons scratching at my heart than it is to feel numb the way a dead body feels when you touch it. It’s better to wait for the beautiful things… to stare at them for as long as they last..to hold on as tight as you can before they disappear. And it might hurt so bad inside… but it’s better to wait for the next beautiful thing than never look for any again.”

- Brian James, Perfect World (via larmoyante)