May 2013
2 posts
“I guess when you’re young you just believe there’ll be many people with whom you connect … Later in life, you realize it only happens a few times.”
—Celine, Before Sunset
March 2013
8 posts
February 2013
1 post
“Every mouth you’ve ever kissed was just practice. All the bodies you’ve ever undressed and ploughed in to were preparing you for me. I don’t mind tasting them in the memory of your mouth.
Was it a long journey? Did it take you long to find me?
You’re here now, welcome home.” —Warsan Shire (via warsanshire)
Was it a long journey? Did it take you long to find me?
You’re here now, welcome home.” —Warsan Shire (via warsanshire)
January 2013
8 posts
“I have known the joy and pain of friendship. I have served and been served. I have made some good enemies for which I am not a bit sorry. I have loved unselfishly, and I have fondled hatred with the red-hot tongs of Hell. That’s living.”
—Zora Neale Hurston
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“I’ve stopped blaming others for how I feel”
—(via dreamhampton1)
November 2012
2 posts
“With you, intimacy colours my voice. Even ‘hello’ sounds like ‘come here’.”
—Warsan Shire (via warsanshire)
“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (via dreamhampton1)
July 2012
6 posts
“If I deleted all of the songs that had memories attached to them, I’d have nothing left to listen to.”
—(via nerdlikejazzy)
“i am a lover without a lover. i am lovely and lonely and i belong deeply to myself.”
—warsan shire (via dreamhampton1)
“either I love you, like you a lot, think you’re smart, or you don’t occur to me”
—dream hampton
June 2012
1 post
May 2012
12 posts
The Hypnotic
…Reminiscing of when it started
It keep me feelin heavy hearted
A stolen moment periodic
Addicted to her presence like a narcotic
Though I wonder if she ever got it - the hypnotic
That faded like a dream sequence that pursuaded
Beyond being infatuated
Spiritually intoxicated
“She walked away smiling, singing Gregory Isaacs like, “If I don’t, if I don’t, if I don’t…”
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Guava Jelly
Camile Velasco
rub it on my belly
“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
—Sylvia Plath
“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
—Anaïs Nin
April 2012
23 posts
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“All my life I have watched brilliant men abandon brilliant women for not at all brilliant ones. I have never seen women do the same.”
—@dreamhampton
“see my castle may be haunted, but i’m terrified of you. i’ve cast my spell on millions, but i’m terrified of you.”
—andre 3000, dracula’s wedding 2003
