March 2012
106 posts
“Shyness is a curious thing, because, like quicksand, it can strike people at any time, and also, like quicksand, it usually makes its victims look down.”
—Lemony Snicket (via misswallflower)
“Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.”
—Charles Dickens (via musingsinfemininity)
- Peeta: When I walk out the shop
- Katniss: Not again-
- Peeta: This is what I see
- Katniss: Peeta stop
- Peeta: Katniss Everdeen is a-lookin' at me
- Peeta: I GOT A LOAF IN MY HANDS
- Peeta: AND I AIN'T AFRAID TO THROW IT THROW IT THROW IT THROW IT
- Katniss: You done?
- Peeta: I'M PEETA AND YOU KNOW IT.
- Katniss: ...
“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
—Fernando Pessoa (via larmoyante)
“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.”
—Frida Kahlo (via lavvandede)