May 2012
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“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and...”
– Family Happiness, Leo Tolstoy
Passage highlighted in one of the books found with Chris McCandless’s remains.
(via vertere)
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“It’s not as if I don’t have anything to read; there’s a tower of perfectly good...”
– Lewis Buzbee, The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop (via prettybooks)
“Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and...”
– Susan Cain, Quiet (via accountedfor)
Time Immemorial.: To have a friend: to keep him.... →
timeimmemorial:
To have a friend: to keep him. To follow him with your eyes. Still to see him when he is no longer there and to try to know, listen to, or read him when you know that you will see him no longer—and that is to cry.
To have a friend, to look at him, to follow him with your eyes, to admire him in…
“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via 4mbivalent)
“I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via thebrookesmith)
“I hope you’re living a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via cosasdelviento)
“So I wait for you like a lonely house
till you will see me again and live in...”
– Pablo Neruda (via radanta)
“If and if and if. I could go along that passage and find new strange rooms.”
– Haruki Murakami (via moderateclimates)
“But I must admit I miss you quite terribly. The world is too quiet without you...”
– Lemony Snicket, The Beatrice Letters (via acynicalcunt)
