died for the last lie, and the heartbreak for the first time, I could not take til I made you cry.
This is what you taught me. This is what you taught – and I learned well – to recognize that feeling easily can be dispelled.
Show your wounds I’m bored with mine. Nothing is new.

I don’t understand the human heart. Only pain makes it grow stronger. Only sorrow makes it kind. Contentment makes it wither, and joy seems to build walls around it. The heart is perverse, and it is cruel, I hate the heart and it seems to hate me.

Douglas Coupland, The Gum Thief (via lovesherlock) (via quote-book)

A double bluff, you fed me lines
The shortest cut, you’re searching for
A mesh of tones, surround your eyes
I wish I knew, how it came to this

Maximo Park “I Want You To Stay”

‘I wish life was not so short,’ he thought. ‘Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.’

J.R.R. Tolkien (via suzywire)

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

James Nicoll (via srsly)