Wake up every morning and tell yourself that you’re a badass bitch from hell and that no one can fuck with you and then don’t let anybody fuck with you.

— Kate Nash’s advice to college students (via morganmarguerite)

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fucking-history: “The imposing Lycian rock tombs with their facades curved into the form of temples were the last resting place of the kings of Caunos.” (gouldy on flickr)

And you know what the worst thing was?
The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried.

— Jack McCarthy, ”Drunks” (via larmoyante)

A good book is an event in my life.

— Stendhal, The Red and the Black (via mythologyofblue)

harvestheart: “Bikini girls” mosaic found by archeological excavation of the ancient Roman villa near Piazza Armerina in SicilySource: Smithsonian Magazine

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

— Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life (via larmoyante)

Of course I’m crazy, but that doesn’t mean I’m wrong. I’m mad, but not ill.

— Robert Anton Wilson (via egotistic-me)

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Nobody can save you but yourself — and you’re worth saving.

— Charles Bukowski (via loveyourchaos)

(Source: theartofhiding, via bookuse)

I often carry things to read
so that I will not have to look at
the people.

— Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems (via 13neighbors)

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