February 2012
“in reality, it’s not that difficult to date a girl who writes. accept that she...”
– Date A Girl Who Writes by Effie Sapuridis
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Being alone lets you focus. Being alone lets you be intense. Solitude is not to be dreaded, it is to be redirected and used, tamed, controlled.
“Food, fire, walks, dreams, cold, sleep, love, slowness, time, quiet, books,...”
– Jeanette Winterson, from Why I adore the night
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“Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit (1944)
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“What’s the matter with you? What is it? What is it you’re doing here? I don’t...”
– Yúnmén Wényǎn
“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“If it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it....”
– So you want to be a writer - Charles Bukowski
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Observe me and keep me holy
Only 14 “likes” left until I’ll give you the acoustic sessions from our Bedford show! Go creatures! http://www.facebook.com/theglasschild
If you’re still doubting, then read this:
We don’t need the industry - we still believe in music
http://theglasschild.tumblr.com/post/14520879102/we-dont-need-the-industry-we-still-believe-in-music
Drinking myself away...
westofadam:
Whiskey, liquer, vodka, you name it. It doesn’t help I’m a little down, very tired and undernourished. Self destruction never felt so right.
January 2012
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“To be great, be whole; exclude
Nothing, exaggerate nothing that is you.
Be...”
– Fernando Pessoa
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“I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these...”
– Sylvia Plath
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iamthehuntress:
I live for the moments during which I am alone; sometimes, when everyone has left the house, I go into a room where there is no computer and I leave my phone on the kitchen counter, taking out the battery, and unplugging all of the house phones. Solitude is my only medication these days; I need to get away from the people who make me ill, relief for the pain in my chest and the...
thesulfurandthesea:
I don’t want to go to college I don’t want to get a job I want to travel around the country and sleep in a van and take pictures of it all and drive for days and see everything everywhere until I can come back home
Yep, this is pretty much my plan :)
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broken-foundation asked: By this time tomorrow, "This Is How Ghosts Are Made" will have hit 1000 plays on my iTunes.. A. How special do you feel? This is the first time I've even got close to that amount of plays! And B. Do you reckon my play count will just reset itself after 999 and make me look like a liar? ;)
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Anonymous asked: Where do you find all poems and quotes that you upload here?
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“I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of...”
– The Hours
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Anonymous asked: You should start writing down the chords along with the lyrics for your songs. So I can play them?
From The Mind Of A Writer: June (First poem of... →
celinamswriting:
This is my first poem of the year and also my longest to date! I was sitting playing guitar last night and had the song “Leaving and Never Coming Back” by the Glass Child running through my head, when this poem started to run through my mind. I wrote down the first two verses thinking it was a…
To hear that my music is inspiring other people’s art and to create is...
unicornmockingjay asked: wow! you're only 20?! you're amazing! ps i have had 'stuck in my mind' on repeat, i love it! beautiful song.
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“Me and my roommate wrote letters to each other at 4am this morning….
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– Charlotte xxx
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“….We wrote songs we loved and we toured because we loved to travel and play our...”
– Nickolas Madore
