when florence welch said “i am done with my graceless heart so tonight i’m gonna cut it out and then restart”
Etikett: quote
“Show respect to every person you meet in your life, even when they did nothing to receive it. It’s a reflection of good character.”
— Nicole Addison @thepowerwithin
“She was like a flaming rose. I thought that she would burn away into perfume in my arms.”
— Heinrich Heine, from The Selected Prose Writings; “Reisebilder,”
I miss her. Acutely. Terribly. It is as though my guide has been taken from me just as I enter the wilderness.
Bertrolt Brecht, from a journal entry written c. November 1939
Give back my book and take my kiss instead.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, from Collected Poems; “Oh, Oh, You Will be Sorry for That Word,”
She’s mad, but she’s magic.
Charles Bukowski
“A pretty face, don’t make a pretty heart.”
— Robert Palmer, Bad Case Of Loving You
“Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence.”
— David Byrne
Yes, I still can breathe, though breath is coming harder, / I still can breathe, but cannot, cannot live.
Fyodor Tyutchev, tr. by Anatoly Liberman, from “Silentium,”
…and the wild eyes — of my lost love —
Edgar Allan Poe, from The Complete Works of E. A. P.; “Ligeia,”
beberequin 