March 2010
I have reflected many times upon our rigid search. It has shown me that...
– Everything is Illuminated
I am a work in progress, dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding, offering me...
– Ani DiFranco, “The Slant”.
Meaningless work not overwork wears us down, saps our strengths. and robs our...
– (via labellevie)
I watch people sometimes, wonder how they can walk around with the weight of...
– Cate Kennedy, A Pitch Too High For Human
The truth about childhood is stored up in our bodies and lives in the depths of...
– Alice Miller
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be...
– Steve Jobs
A Plea, John Ciardi
I said to her tears: “I am fallible and hungry, and refusal is no correction and anger no meal. Feed me mercies from the first-bread of your heart.
I have invented no part of the error it is to be human. The least law could jail me and be upheld; the least theology, damn me
and be proved. But when, ever, have I come to you to be judged? Set me straight to your last breath, and mine, and...
If you take someone’s thoughts and feelings away, bit by bit, consistently, then...
– Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Naturally I will be a bit depressed and blue at times, and tired and...
– Sylvia Plath
I think one of the highest compliments you can give a person is that when you...
– David Levithan
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violent femme: listen for the sounds the field... →
i took the long way home tonight. i was sleepwalking through headlights and right turns on red lights. watched the moon shake it’s dust. felt the universe sigh like it made a wrong choice. i road over the old train tracks, drove slow so i could feel them. i laid with a lot of boys over those train…
Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth. Roll up that tender...
– Virginia Woolf’s Orlando
I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his...
– The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
So you look for patterns because that’s what humans do to try and make sense of...
– I Wrote This For You
The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It...
– George Carlin
goodmorning,monday
any given thursday...
When you first meet somebody, and you find out they like you… A friend of a friend of theirs says, “He or she really really likes you.” And it kills you. Floors you. Sends you to the ground. You’ve got to pick yourself up off the ground. Then you get their phone number, and you call them up, right? And you say “Yeah, that’s a really great phone conversation, can I see you some time?” Then they say...