December 2009
267 posts
coolaccent:
The man on the moon winks at the stars, telling them to shake off their dust and shed their laughter on the earth so that those who still believe can lay on rooftops, searching for answers, and listen to the way the world moves around them, counting their wishes as they watch the stars dance in circles around them.
“You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of...”
– Francesca Lia Block (via tryphena)
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I want a boy who will notice the tiny scars on my body, on my hands, my face, my chest, my knee, the birthmark on my shoulder. I want someone who will have the same enthusiasm for knives, fires, pretty skies, and woods. It wouldn’t hurt if he was a boy scout. I want someone who doesn’t always care about getting enough sleep and will go on nighttime adventures with me, who will sit on...
“Most of our lives are a series of images, they pass us by like towns on a...”
– Lucas Scott (OTH) (via kari-shma) (via quote-book) (via coolaccent)
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I sat on my bed next to my younger cousin. She’s eight and I’m trying my hardest to be the cool older cousin. We were listening to music and painting pictures at my wall. She was amazed that my mother actually let me do that. We painted in silence for a while, handprints and pictures of little girls in dresses. And then she turned to me with a thoughtful look on her face and said,...
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I collect secrets. I keep them in a hollowed out book underneath my bed. Not just my own, but secrets people tell me, too. They’re safe there. I write down special moments on scraps of paper and put those too inside the book. Special moments are so fleeting, so rare and amazing that sometimes they’re hard to catch. But when I do recognize one and catch it I write it down on a piece of...
“Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as...”
– Neil Gaiman (via lalalollipopp)
