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oldfilmsflicker:

(via oldfilmsflicker)

"

He’s not perfect. You aren’t either, and the two of you will never be perfect.
But if he can make you laugh at least once, causes you to think twice, and if he admits to being human and making mistakes, hold onto him and give him the most you can.
He isn’t going to quote poetry, he’s not thinking about you every moment, but he will give you a part of him that he knows you could break.
Don’t hurt him, don’t change him, and don’t expect for more than he can give.
Don’t analyze. Smile when he makes you happy, yell when he makes you mad, and miss him when he’s not there.
Love hard when there is love to be had.

Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy that is perfect for you.

"

- Bob Marley  (via awelltraveledwoman)

(via awelltraveledwoman)

"After sex, you curl up like a shrimp, something deep inside you ruined, slammed in a place that sickens at slamming, and slowly you fill up with an overwhelming sadness, an elusive gaping worry. You don’t try to explain it, filled with the knowledge that it’s nothing after all, everything filling up finally and absolutely with death. After the briskness of loving, loving stops. And you roll over with death stretched alongside you like a feather boa, or a snake, light as air, and you … you don’t even ask for anything or try to say something to him because it’s obviously your own damn fault. You haven’t been able to—to what? To open your heart. You open your legs but can’t, or don’t dare anymore, to open your heart."

- Susan Minot, from “Lust” in The Paris Review issue 91, Spring 1984 (via proseprunings)

mistersalvatore:

But I find that a lot of Ang Bandang Shirley’s lyrics very ‘tattoo-able’.

The kind of profound one liner you wouldn’t mind being reminded of every time you look down on your arm or whatever.

Stuff like:

• “Aking alay, ang sarili, aking tunay, na pag-ibig”
• “Iyong pag-ibig ay larong kalye”
• …

andrewgibby:

I’m never gonna wait

that extra twenty minutes

to text you back,

and I’m never gonna play

hard to get

when I know your life

has been hard enough already.

When we all know everyone’s life

has been hard enough already

it’s hard to watch

the game we make of love,

like…

tinrulestheworld:

Dear Stranger
If you hear this and think it could be about you
Please don’t stop listening
I’m homeward bound and if I have found you
Then it must have been meant to be
Take each word that is more than silence
And place it inside parentheses
You’ll know what to do soon enough

Dear Stranger

"Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey."

-  ― Pat Conroy (via carrierudzinski)

“The first time I asked you on a date, after you hung up, I held the air between our phones against my ear and whispered, “You will fall in love with me. Then, just months later, you will fall out. I will pretend the entire time that I don’t know it’s coming.” - Miles Walser

Writing is excessive drudgery. It crooks your back, it dims your sight, it twists your stomach and your sides. 

This is sad! O little book! A daw will come in truth when someone over your page will say, “The hand that wrote it is no more.”

“I guess I had nothing to that weekend, so I decided to fall in love.” -Eve Candle

“All men have an interest in bacon, with the exception, perhaps, of the Jew and the vegetarian; and the man of little imagination, but of sound appetitive instincts, who had bacon and eggs for breakfast one morning, and varied monotony by ordering eggs and bacon the next, was more than justified by the almost unanimous vote of the community –- the pig, with some assistance from the hen, is the true autocrat of the breakfast table!”

“Ipagpilitan mo ang ending na masaya. Huwag magtampisaw sa sarili mong hinagpis at hinaing. Itangkal ang dakilang pag-ibig. Nagbabayad ang mga mambabasa ng trenta pesos. Inaasahan nila’y saglit na pag-asa para sa lahat ng pusong nagmamahal. Huwag na huwag mo silang bibiguin.” (Barrios, 2001)