May 2013
17 posts
Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.
– Barbara Kingsolver, The Lacuna (via arielia)
Well, if identity is only a game, if it is only a procedure to have relations,...
– Michel Foucault, in Sex, Power and the Politics of Identity. (via arielia)
I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.
– Anaïs Nin (via mirroir)
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows: sonder →
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate…
If you are troubled by external circumstances, it is not the circumstances that...
– Marcus Aurelius (via mirroir)
April 2013
9 posts
Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary.
– Mark Twain (via hellanne)
March 2013
61 posts
There are a million ways to bleed. But you are by far my favorite.
– Iain Thomas, The Scars You Love (via mermaidporn)