January 2011
26 posts
“I can’t get rid of books. It’s almost like having your thoughts [around you]. I...”
– Keira Knightley, Elle UK, 2011 March (via maced)
“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.”
– Lewis Carroll (via quote-book)
michaeljosephcano:
Grizzly Bear - Two Weeks
My list of people I drunk dial has expanded.
No one is safe.
“She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present,...”
– Dave Eggers, How the Water Feels to the Fishes (via quote-book)
I just want to say that
I love my parents. I really do. They are the kindest, most generous wonderful people I know. I am so grateful to have them in my life.
“[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen...”
– Ray Bradbury, Farewell Summer: A Novel (via liquidnight)
“I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I’d been able to, we could have lived...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)
“You felt no reality, no knife of sorrow cut your intestines to bits. Only a...”
– Sylvia Plath (via sylvia-plath)
“If you are what you eat, then you write what you read.”
– The best quote from the conference in Hotlanta this weekend.
Author of children’s and professional development books as well as a professor at a southern university, Dr. Lester L. Laminack was an engaging speaker not to mention hilarious. He said this during one of his author sessions and it...
When I was younger, I was obsessed with lyrics to songs. It was the words that compelled me to listen to the music. Thus my adolescent obsession with Bright Eyes. Every one of those songs is a poem; a story set to a simple melody told by a troubled boy with a wavery voice. It was always words that I found comfort in. The careful way they were put together. And now, more than ever, I find myself...
Untitled #5 (Cleanser)
cause we don’t want trouble, we’ll take what we came for
and we’ll leave quiet
or maybe we will tear you up,
take what you love,
and burn it down
and burn it down.
I haven’t listened to the demos since they came out in 2006. I forgot how good some of them were. I don’t have a favorite band, but Brand New definitely means a lot to me. I will always be a little bit in love with...
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As you get older you will find, as I have found, that people come in and out of your life. Some quite quickly, some stay for a little while longer, but they leave. But even though they are gone, a part of them stays with you. It’s like a phantom limb; it’s not there anymore but sometimes you can still feel it. It’s like those moments when something happens and you are about to...
“Love is bullshit. Emotion is bullshit. I am a rock. A jerk. I’m an uncaring...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via comatosity)
“I never felt right being alone; sometimes it felt good but it never felt right.”
– (via lostseashells)
“Your past is just a story. And once you realize this it has no power over you.”
– Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk (via amezkilla)
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love...”
– Charles Bukowski (via scarlettheroin)
“I clutter my life with things. I have memories all over that I don’t even...”
– Anjelica Huston (via tinyapartment)