A REASONABLE LIVING

Words that remind and assure us that a reasonable living is very often unreasonable

[kafk-a]

Mary Oliver

[vital-information]

Sometimes it is very important to be awkward, inelegant, jerking, to be neither poetic nor prosaic, to be positively bad. To express other possibilities for bodies, alternative values, to stop making sense.

— Zadie Smith, “Dance Lessons for Writers,” Feel Free

[garadinervi]

Jen Bervin, The Silver Book, Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, NY, 2010, Edition of 500

[wordsnquotes]

Please come to bed and let me see you and feel you.

Ernest Hemingway, The Garden Of Eden (via wordsnquotes)

[wnq-quotes]

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.

Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

More on wordsnquotes

(via wordsnquotes)

[thequotejournals]

I crave space. It charges my batteries. It helps me breathe. Being around people can be so exhausting, because most of them love to take and barely know how to give. Except for a rare few.

Katie Kacvinsky, First Comes Love (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside.

Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (via wordsnquotes)

[fyp-psychology]

You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.

Alfred Adler (via wordsnquotes)

[fyp-philosophy]

The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.

Laozi (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.

Oscar Wilde (via wordsnquotes)

[thelovejournals]

I wish I had a someone who would observe me silently, who would capture all my habits and quirks, and still love me. Someone that would get lost in how my fine features define my face, while smiling or crying, and still love me.

Elay Neal Moses (via wordsnquotes)

[photography-cnl]

August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

Sylvia Plath (via landscape-photo-graphy)

[wordsnquotes]

I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.

Sylvia Plath (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

It was good for a while, being empty. I didn’t hurt anymore. But as time went on, it was like I could hear myself from far away, begging for permission to come back.

Myra McEntire, Hourglass (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose in it. I saw you and made up my mind.

Toni Morrison, Jazz (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

I want to be with you, it is as simple, and as complicated as that.

Charles Bukowski (via wordsnquotes)

[thequotejournals]

I’m not looking for somebody who will whisper sweet nothings into my ear to feed the ravenous ego of my heart. But someone who can look me straight in the eye and say, I love you, whether you fail or fall, just as you are.

Beau Taplin, The Ego (via wordsnquotes)