January 2012
16 posts
“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively...”
– Sylvia Plath (via dailystendhalnitesaudade)
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I just watched "Never Let Me Go" for the first...
We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through, or feel we’ve had enough time.
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Sleep.
Awake at 4:20 a.m.
Flight at 6:45 a.m.
Minneapolis? Okay…
Home.
Maybe I’m sick because I’m literally homesick.
“All they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with a rope and torture a...”
– Billy Collins (via bardsandsages)
“One might say that I am the moment of individuality, but I refuse to be a...”
– Soren Kierkegaard (via bardsandsages)
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“With income inequality at its highest level in 80 years while the federal tax...”
– John Perr (via liberalsarecool)
“Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via metiens)
“This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise...”
– Walt Whitman (via bardsandsages)
“Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts,...”
– Paulo Coelho (via melizzaaratan)
December 2011
37 posts
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Angry love letter to the world
Dear world,
You seem really unresponsive right now. I feel left out, alone, unwanted, unworthy. So, if someone cares, I would really appreciate some responses - not here, necessarily. Other places in life, other people - they all have this habit of contacting you when it is convenient for them, but then forgetting that a morsel of you exists any other time. It’s cool. Sometimes I like to...
“It is impossible to live without failing at something. Unless you live so...”
– J.K. Rowling (submitted by lostinthisdisguise)
Why did I choose to watch Anastasia? Dimitri is the perfect man who doesn’t exist.
This year, all of a sudden, I’m having man problems. Well, not man problems. They don’t deserve to be called that. Boy problems? Even that seems too generous.
Shouldn’t this be simple? Everyone, be honest. If you care, act like it and show it. I know there are strings attached to this, but...
““We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed,...”
– Michael Ondaatje (via bardsandsages)
“In any case you mustn’t confuse a single failure with a final defeat.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night (via honeyforthehomeless)
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Breakthrough.
It happened. For the first time in months, I feel like me again. I could cry. I’m writing a poem. It came to me, like they used to, before all the shit started. It’s beautiful. It’s like everything I’ve kept inside since July is tumbling out of my pen, like I never stopped writing at all. I didn’t lose it. I haven’t lost it. It didn’t run away - for good....
I hate holidays. I know that makes me a part of the minority.
Please, just let it be over. I don’t want to pretend to be happy anymore. I’m sick of smiling when all I want to do is cry.
“It’s amazing how you can get so far from where you’d planned, and yet find it...”
– Sarah Dessen (via girlwithoutwings)
“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
– George Orwell, 1984 (via solipsism2)
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“I know that things are broken And though there’s too many words left unsaid You say you have spoken Like the coward I am, I hang my head And you lay careless your head on my chest And don’t even look at me looking my best And all these things I can’t describe You would rather I didn’t try But please don’t cry, you liar Oh please, don’t cry, you liar...
“An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild...”
– Buddha (via quote-book)
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Today. Gutted.
“But I gave you all But you rip it from my hands And you swear it’s all gone And you rip out all I have Just to say that you’ve won Well now you’ve won
But I gave you all.”
Cure all: Mumford and Sons.
“The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good...”
– Albert Camus (via coello)
“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (via boxofoctaves)
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Go suck it.
But you, you’ve gone too far this time You have neither reason nor rhyme With which to take this soul that is so rightfully mine
Yup. This one’s for you.
“You lose what individualism you have, if you have enough of course, you retain...”
– Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
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I’m sitting in the library, trying to write a paper about the short story “NippleJesus,” listening to Les Mis, and I just totally started crying during “A Little Fall of Rain.” So good.
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Let's talk about poop.
Living with roommates is always fun - always an experience. We’ve worked through lots of interesting conflicts, some of which are still touchy subjects, and some that are just laughable now.
There’s one thing that bugs me, and it’s not something I can really bring up to my roommates, because it has to do with their comfort level. Let’s be honest about something: we all...
“Screw poetry, it’s you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin.”
– Margaret Atwood (via atomiclanterns)
inspireme-georgiaellen:
Mumford & Sons,...
