December 2010
31 posts
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the spaces between the notes and curl my...
– Maya Angelou (via josiemac28713)
I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I...
– Charles Bukowski (via leyzz)
It's really difficult to get things done
at work when everyone is on vacation until the holidays are over. There are also only two other people here in my department because everyone else is gone for the week.
Here’s to my fifth day at work and constantly refreshing tumblr all day!
I don’t hate people, I just feel better when they aren’t around.
– Charles Bukowski (via @johannal)
It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts...
– Bridget Jones’s Diary (via whenthecamerasoff)
It took me so many years to move out. I’m definitely a bit of a Peter Pan,...
– Helena Bonham Carter (via whenthecamerasoff)
I feel this. Of course one day I plan to move out when I save up enough money, but right now, I’m okay here.
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get...
– Mortimer J. Adler (via breathingbooks)
Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
– Albus Dumbledore | Submitted by thevendiagram (via quote-book)
But I feel like kicking myself in the ass when I go to gatherings, even if the...
– Charles Bukowski, The Captain is Out to Lunch (via caffeineandnicotine)
… quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any...
– Joan Didion, “Farewell to All That” (via drinkyourjuice)
I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of...
– J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey (via vulpecula)
(via thewordmenagerie)
Of course it’s Christmas Eve and I still have last minute shopping to do. Typical.
In other news it’s Christmas Eve!
Time to stuff my face with my mom’s cooking, get slightly tipsy from sangria and open some presents.
It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to...
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Frédéric Chopin (via foxandfayvel)
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Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
–
Orson Scott Card
(via starsmending: audiogasm / robot-heart / chelseanico)(converted to text)
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Every woman is a rebel and usually in wild revolt against herself.
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Oscar Wilde (via credoquia, mrsduaneallman) (via supposablethumbs)
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I have no advice for anybody; except to, you know, be awake enough to see where...
– Jeff Buckley (via jeffbuckleyforever) (via elaina-marie)(via delacroix)
Oh shit, am I actually posting AGAIN? Twice in the...
It’s 3 AM and after four months of unemployment my sleep schedule is officially fucked. I won’t be tired for another hour and a half at least. While the rest of my family is sound asleep in bed, I sit on the floor of my room, too lazy to clean the mess that covers my carpet, so I just push around some shopping bags and battered school books that have been sitting there since school ended (in May....
I don't know what to write on here anymore.
When I started this new blog and deleted my old one, I promised myself it would be a lot more original content and actual anecdotes about my life rather than just inconsistent reblogs of things I find relevant in the moment and than later think, “Huh, alright then” when I look at my tumblr.
Of course I only have myself to blame for this, but it’s like every time I decide to...
I had a flash of something, a mixture of ignorance and a loose, “what the hell”...
– Hunter S. Thompson The Rum Diary (via fitzgeraldlife, thetitletrack)
I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please,...
– Sylvia Plath (via multitasker)
We are here to laugh at the odds, and live our lives so well that Death will...
– Charles Bukowski (via 1000gynecologists)