And I hide because there’s more to me than what you see and I’m not sure you’d like the rest. I know that sometimes, I don’t like the rest.
I Wrote This For You: The Remaining Mirrors (via kari-shma)
(via quote-book)
This is probably going to get quoted in every publication just because I said it. And I’m not even saying anything. I’m not talking about my films, I’m not talking about my life, and I’m not talking about the world. And yet, the media will print it simply because I said it. And at this moment in time, I bet there is an artist around the corner of this hotel, on the street, with a mind far beyond ours, but we will never listen to him simply because he has not appeared in a movie. And that is what is fucked up about our culture.
Robert Downey Jr. (via quote-book)
Sorry to prove you write Mr Downey but its true.
There is a universal truth we all have to face, whether we want to or not, everything eventually ends. As much as I’ve looked forward to this day, I’ve always disliked endings. Last day of summer, the final chapter of a great book, parting ways with a close friend. But endings are inevitable. Leaves fall. You close the book. You say goodbye. Today is one of those days for us. Today we say goodbye to everything that was familiar, everything that was comfortable. We’re moving on. But just because we’re leaving, and that hurts, there’s some people who are so much a part of us, they’ll be with us no matter what. They are our solid ground. Our North Star. And the small clear voices in our hearts that will be with us, always.
Alexis’ Graduation Speech, Castle (via quote-book)
Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
Virginia Woolf, Orlando
(Source: goodreads.com, via danseurs)
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this is my tattoo journey, my trip to wonderland. this is the original picture, the outline, and the finished product. this was done in Fresno Cali by Mario at RedWave Tattoo. This took 6 and a half hours total and i took it all in one sitting. i love alice in wonderland and all the stories and crazy things behind it! (:
This is my very first tattoo. I spent too much time wanting one, and trying to come up with the perfect thing to place permanently on my body. I took a hiatus to Florence Italy for a month, and decided that a trip like that should be completed with a tattoo if nothing more than to remind me why I took the trip.
I traveled on my 28th birthday 45 minutes outside of Florence, by bus to be told, in very broken English, that it would be next to impossible to get so long a word on such a small space. That, and I needed to come back, as they do not take same day appointments. I was leaving in nine days, so they had to squeeze me in with a man named Bepe. He didn’t speak a lick of English, but communicated with me just fine (mostly through the front desk attendant, who had a hard time with me as well). I studied Italian for three months before this trip - my preparation was nowhere near suitable. He reluctantly made the words as small as he could, and the appointment took 20 minutes; from when he positioned the stencil to when he wiped the ink off my wrist. It took me longer to get to the shop than it took him to do the job. Every day I love it a little more. It has meaning that I can carry with me for the rest of my life.
It is meant to remind me that our lives have meaning everywhere we go. We change the world with every step we take. I decided I don’t want to belong just anywhere, I want to belong everywhere. This tattoo is meant to remind me to take the chances I dream of taking. To make the connections, decisions and mistakes I insist on making. So often times I am discouraged by the world around me. Now I have a constant reminder that I have to keep pushing forward, and make my own way. Societal restrictions hold no barring to dreams.
