thoughtkick:

“If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you’re okay. Who watches out or you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don’t let them go. People like that are hard to find.”

— Franz Kafka

bjorkquotes:

“after tragedies one has to invent a new world, knit it or embroider, make it up … you have to imagine something that doesn’t exist and dig a cave into the future and demand space”

— Björk

adrasteiax:

“I will take a crowbar and pry out the broken pieces of God in me.”

— Anne Sexton, from The Civil War in “The Complete Poems Of Anne Sexton”

adrasteiax:

“Snow had fallen. I remember music from an open window. Come to me, said the world.”

— Louise Glück, from October in “Poems 1962-2012″

fidnru:

“Silence is the mark of hysteria. The great hysterics have lost speech, they are aphonic, and at times they have lost more than speech. They are pushed to the point of choking, nothing gets through.”

— Hélène Cixous (via celluloidhorror)

penguinrandomhouse:

“Find out what makes you kinder, what opens you up and brings out the most loving, generous, and unafraid version of you―and go after those things as if nothing else matters. Because, actually, nothing does.”

George Saunders

vemoedalen:

“I like you; your eyes are full of language.”

Anne Sexton, Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3rd, 1964

violentwavesofemotion:

“Moon girls, where did you go?”

Anne Sexton, from The Complete Poems; “Iron Hans,” wr. c. 1963