May 2012
6 posts
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It was like the classic scene in the movies where one lover is on the train and...
– Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs
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You were so happy
I could not help but cry
and you asked me for a reason...
– Dan Mangan, Some Place to Come Home to
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April 2012
2 posts
My sister told me a soul mate is not the person
who makes you the happiest but...
– Sierra DeMulder, “Love, Forgive Me”
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March 2012
1 post
1 tag
I was satisfied with haiku until I met you,
but now I want a Russian novel,
a...
– D. Young
(via MITFORD: )
February 2012
4 posts
3 tags
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We forget things that are amazing. All the time. All. The. Time. How often do...
– Oliver Miller, Everything that I know about Jupiter (Thought Catalog)
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And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens—The main thing is not...
– John Steinbeck on love in a letter to his son Thom
January 2012
13 posts
2 tags
When you sleep on your side, I like to map the constellations between your...
– Stephanie Georgopulos, I Like Your Flaws (Thought Catalog)
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Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope...
– David Quammen (via prettybooks)
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The tangles in some areas of the brain were getting to be so thick it was like...
– David Schenk, The Forgetting: Alzheimer’s, Portrait of an Epidemic
We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love...
– Charles Bukowski
Generally, by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, and...
– “The Velveteen Rabbit” by Margery Williams (via julie911)
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
– Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Burns (via honeyforthehomeless)
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December 2011
1 post
November 2011
8 posts
2 tags
4 tags
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I don’t know what that’s supposed to tell you; nothing, except that...
– Nicole Krauss, Great House
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It is not a failure of our institutions so much as it is a window into what they...
– Charles P. Pierce, The Brutal Truth About Penn State
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October 2011
6 posts
3 tags
Sometimes the wrong train can take us to the right place.
– Paulo Coelho (via cordisre)
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I wasn’t much of a petty thief. I wanted the world or nothing.
– Charles Bukowski, Post Office
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‘Grab hold of the nearest stranger. Don’t take the stranger’s hand, God knows...
– YOU MIGHT FIND YOURSELF: Miranda July: ‘Take a moment to connect with a stranger’
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
– Arthur Miller (via kari-shma)
September 2011
4 posts
4 tags
When the light of each of all the sides was gone again in spinning, the light...
– Blake Butler, There Is No Year
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Let’s borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night (via suzywire)
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August 2011
3 posts
3 tags
2 tags
The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a...
– The History Boys (via prettybooks)
July 2011
8 posts
4 tags
4 tags