So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love—loving the loving of things whose existence she didn’t care at all about. Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for. It was not the world that was the great and saving lie, but her willingness to make it beautiful and fair, to live a once-removed life, in a world once-removed from the one in which everyone else seemed to exit.
Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated (via quotewhore)
People like us, we wait until our 30s and then we are surprised when the babies aren’t so easy to make anymore. And everyday another million 14-year-olds get pregnant without trying.
Tom Garnett, Away We Go (via movieoftheday)
Why He’s Hot:
- Let’s get this out of the way: His name is The Doctor. He is the last Timelord from Gallifrey here to save us all and look damn good while he’s doing it. Get it straight or GTFO. He’s gotta save the day with a little razzle dazzle so there’s the classic brown or the quirky blue suit if the situation calls for it, and the situation always involves being sexy.
- Multitalented? Hurr durr, of course he’s got that. Just listen to him sing. Is that The Clash? Holy fuck this guy is serenading the shit out of you. Choreographed dance and song to The Smiths? You know you wanna sit the fuck down and watch the rest of these Blackpool clips. Oh yeah and this is CASANOVA bitches, the pimpinest pimp of all effing time. Did I mention he played Hamlet on stage? And, for your swooning pleasure: BOUNUS GIFT he’s got a sense of humor. DAT ACCENT.
- Scottish? Did you not just hear that spicy accent? That’s not the only one he can pull either; there’s the Brit and the Yank. This exceptional specimen of a man was born in Bathgate Scotland. Rawr.
- Style? Check and fucking mate people. Exhibit A. Hold the fucking phone, is that a crushed velvet suit? Did you hear that? Velvet suits are in now, bitch. Did someone say Geek Chic? This handsome mofo has a monopoly on that shit. Wait, so are these glasses in style now? You bet your sweet ass they are. Facial hair? Yes please.
- Not convinced yet? Well fuck you. But seriously, check out this vid and tell me that’s not majorly sexy as all God Damn Hell. And I’ll sum it up with simply saying OH MY GAWD.
Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like.
Lemony Snicket (via quotewhore)
I am only myself when I am drunk. Liquor makes me human.
Gilbert Parker, The Right of Way
I know we’re all psychotic, single and completely dysfunctional and it’s all done over the phone,” Tom slurred sentimentally, “but it’s a bit like a family, isn’t it?
Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding
I am the most tired woman in the world. I am tired when I get up. Life requires an effort I cannot make. Please give me that heavy book. I need to put something heavy like that on top of my head. I have to place my feet under the pillows always, so as to be able to stay on earth. Otherwise I feel myself going away, going away at a tremendous speed, on account of my lightness. I know that I am dead. As soon as I utter a phrase my sincerity dies, becomes a lie whose coldness chills me. Don’t say anything, because I see that you understand me, and I am afraid of your understanding. I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lonely, but I also have such a fear that my isolation be broken through, and I no longer be the head and ruler of my universe. I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have to share my kingdom with you.
Anais Nin
Man was made of a little mud and water. Could not a woman be made of dew, earthen mists and beams of light, condensed remnants of a rainbow?
We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.
Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it’s much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!
Neil Gaiman (via fyneilgaiman)
