August 2012
133 posts
“Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, ‘Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?’ …Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, ‘We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay.’”
—Charles M. Schulz (via larmoyante)
“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
—J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (via vanished)
“A young man and woman walked past - a handsome young man and pretty young woman, the man in a seersucker suit and the woman in an old-fashioned summer dress - and they were walking a bit apart from one another with a space between them, and the man was looking straight ahead and the woman had her arms crossed against her chest, hugging herself, looking down at her feet, at her toes that peeked out the open fronts of her shoes, and they both had the same gleefully suppressed smile on their faces, and I knew that they were freshly in love, perhaps they had fallen in love having dinner in some restaurant with a garden or tables on the sidewalk, perhaps they had not even kissed yet, and they walked apart because they thought they had their whole lives to walk close together, touching, and wanted to anticipate the moment they touched for as long as possible, and they passed by without noticing me…”
—Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You, Peter Cameron (via 2amwhodoyoulove)
