22 3 / 2012
"The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer."
(Source: quote-book)
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25 2 / 2012
I just spent my Saturday night laying in bed and watching ‘Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close’ for the 3rd time
Actually, sobbing.
This is my favorite book and the movie is beautiful. I cry harder each time I watch it because Thomas Horn is a fantastic Oskar and really makes him come to life just the way I always imagined it. I just want to hug him.
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25 1 / 2012
"When I was a girl, my life was music that was always getting louder.
Everything moved me.
A dog following a stranger. That made me feel so much.
A calendar that showed the wrong month. I could have cried over it. I did.
Where the smoke from the chimney ended.
How an overturned bottle rested at the edge of a table.
I spent my life learning to feel less.
Every day I felt less.
Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."
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21 1 / 2012
Finally, after waiting 10 months since I found out it was going to be a movie, I saw “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”
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24 12 / 2011
"Everything that’s born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they’re all on fire, and we’re all trapped."
(Source: cascade-dreams)
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10 12 / 2011
"He had been waiting for someone to come back to him, so every time someone knocked on the door, he couldn’t stop himself from hoping it might be that person, even though he knew he shouldn’t hope."
(via loveyourchaos)
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01 12 / 2011
"Do you think I’m wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it’s only noon. You couldn’t be something that hundreds of others are."
(via madefearfully)
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27 10 / 2011
"I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want."
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02 7 / 2011
"He was an intellectual, although he wasn’t important, maybe he would have been important if he had lived longer, maybe great books were coiled within him like springs…"
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26 5 / 2011
"So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!"
(Source: quote-book)
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19 5 / 2011
"When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were necessary to make you possible."
(via loveyourchaos)
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