April 2012
25 posts
“Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.”
—Mark Slouka (via carouselinparis)
“Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.”
—C.S Lewis (St. Augustine)
“Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you’ll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.”
—Neil Gaiman (via misswallflower)
“Empires never last. Every one of them has failed terribly. They destroy many cultures as they race toward greater domination, and then they themselves fall. No country or combination of countries can thrive in the long term by exploiting others.”
—John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hitman (via daydreamsonlooseleafpaper)
“Until you can create something that captivates people, I’d invite you to just shut up. It’s easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It’s a lot more difficult to perform one.”
—Chuck Palahniuk (via travestyintechnicolour)