January 2012
1 post
“To change the things I can’t accept”
– Fatimah Imam
December 2011
10 posts
“Jesus, I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about...”
– Looking for Alaska by John Green
“That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I...”
– Looking for Alaska by John Green
“Don’t you know who you love, Pudge? You love the girl who makes you laugh...”
– Looking for Alaska by John Green
“Rabe’a al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seen running...”
– Looking for Alaska by John Green
1 tag
“I’m not gonna meet someone like Diane Court at a kegger. I mean this girl was...”
– Lloyd Dobler
1 tag
Diane: I just can't have any social life right now.
Lloyd: Don't worry about it. We're just having coffee. We'll be anti-social.
Diane: Be friends?
Lloyd: Yeah. With potential.
“Perhaps the grief in change is vital if we’re to grow.”
– Ephriam Sando
“Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There’s a strong streak of...”
– David Foster Wallace, 1996 (via sometimesagreatnotion)
“People universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert
November 2011
4 posts
“So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite...”
– Let The Great World Spin, Colum McCann (via e-pic)
1 tag
“My great shame as a writer is that I’m just this suburban kid with good...”
– Sam Wexler
1 tag
“I’m designed to feel slightly dissatisfied.”
– Jesse
October 2011
13 posts
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that...”
– Albus Dumbledore
“The primary cause of success in life is the ability to set and achieve goals....”
– Brian Tracy
“I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I...”
– The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan (submitted via Confuzzzled)
1 tag
“You know what drives me crazy? It’s all these people talking about how...”
1 tag
“I always feel this pressure of being a strong and independent icon of womanhood,...”
1 tag
“I used to think that if none of your family or friends knew you were dead, it...”
1 tag
“I like to feel his eyes on me when I look away.”
1 tag
Troy: My parents got divorced when I was five years old, and I saw my father about three times a year after that. And when he found out that he had cancer, he decided to bring me here and gives me this big pink seashell, and he says to me, "Son, the answers are inside of this." And I'm all like "What?" But then I realize that the shell is empty. There's no point to any of this. It's all just a... a random lottery of meaningless tragedy and a series of near escapes. So I take pleasure in the details. You know... a Quarter-Pounder with cheese, those are good. The sky about ten minutes before it starts to rain. The moment where your laughter become a cackle... and I... I sit back, and I smoke my Camel Straights, and I ride my own melt.
1 tag
Lelaina: I was really going to be somebody by the time I was 23.
Troy: Honey, all you have to be by the time you're 23 is yourself.
Lelaina: I don't know who that is anymore.
Troy: I do. And we all love her. I love her. She breaks my heart again and again, but I love her.
1 tag
“When people are not focused, they make excuses beforehand to protect themselves...”
– Brad Kearns
“It’s a funny thing about coming home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the...”
– The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (via kari-shma)
September 2011
9 posts
“When they say seize the day, they’re talking shit. Sometimes you seize...”
– Miguel Pernia
“We do our best to pretend.”
“Now that we’re here, we might as well go too far.”
– Eandra Po
“I want to save the earth, but not people. People are thoughtless, self-centered,...”
“It is a law of nature that the best things grow under somewhat unsuitable...”
“You’ve got to find what you love. Your work is gonna fill a large part of...”
– Steve Jobs
1 tag
August 2011
5 posts
“I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me,...”
– Augusten Burroughs
Starbucks
Me: Hot choco
Barista: Size?
Me: Uhhh, smallest
Barista: Short?
Me: Right, that one
“Why in moments of crisis do we ask God for strength and help? As cognitive...”
– Bill Schell
July 2011
5 posts
“I don’t think I’ll go to boxing again. I’m not suggesting it...”
– Russell Brand
“All addicts, regardless of the substance or their social status share a...”
– Russell Brand
“The hardest period in life is one’s twenties. It’s a shame because you’re your...”
– Helen Mirren, interview, May 25, 2011 in Esquire
(via mlq3)
“The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to...”
– Leo Babauta (via kari-shma)
“People with simian lines generally live their life differently than most other...”
June 2011
3 posts
Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again; and then in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked I cried to dream...
“We have so little time, really.”
– Issy Reyes
A Cat in an Empty Apartment Wislawa Szymborska
Dying—you wouldn’t do that to a cat. For what is a cat to do in an empty apartment? Climb up the walls? Brush up against the furniture? Nothing here seems changed, and yet something has changed. Nothing has been moved, and yet there’s more room. And in the evenings the lamp is not on.
One hears footsteps on the stairs, but...