February 2012
31 posts
“I thought it would be strange to live in the world without her in it. And yet....”
–
Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
(via thethingaboutwords)
What May Happen in the next 100 years (1900) →
Some things are weird, but some things are way too accurate.
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt →
soupnazi:
There are crazy girls, and then there’s this.
(via reddit)
“There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they’re good, or...”
– Laurell K. Hamilton (via prima-volta)
“I am alive in everything I touch. Touch these pages and you have me in your...”
– Timothy Findley (The Wars)
“All the rest of his life he pitied those around him who would never know what it...”
– Famous Last Words, Timothy Findley (via g-is-for-gaijin)
“I’ve imagined us meeting all over the world, Patrick, but I never thought we’d...”
– In The Skin Of A Lion, Michael Ondaatje (via michannette)
Obama Family: Obama's Accomplishments →
obamafamily:
1. Ordered all federal agencies to undertake a study and make recommendations for ways to cut spending 2. Ordered a review of all federal operations to identify and cut wasteful spending and practices 3. Instituted enforcement for equal pay for women 4. Beginning the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq 5. Families of fallen soldiers have expenses covered to be on hand when the body...
“Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You...”
– Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (via g-is-for-gaijin)
“I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once.”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (via to-seekagreatperhaps)
“And if all that is meaningless, I want to be cured
Of a craving for something I...”
– T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party. (via askios)
I FOUND ICE CUBES 'GOOD DAY' →
murkavenue:
CLUE 1: “went to short dogs house, they was watching Yo MTV RAPS” Yo MTV RAPS first aired: Aug 6th 1988 CLUE 2: Ice Cubes single “today was a good day” released on: Feb 23 1993 CLUE 3: ”The Lakers beat the Super Sonics” Dates between Yo MTV Raps air date AUGUST 6 1988 and the release of the single FEBRUARY 23 1993 where...
“In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.”
– William S. Burroughs, Queer (via honeyforthehomeless)
“Body cells replace themselves every month. Even at this very moment. Most...”
– Haruki Murakami (via saddest-summer)
January 2012
32 posts
“As the past moves under your fingertips, part of it crumbles. Other parts you...”
– Timothy Findley from The Wars (via windrushcove)
the bends
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. frustration that you’re not enjoying an experience as much as you should, even something you’ve worked for years to attain, which prompts you to plug in various thought combinations to try for anything more than static emotional blankness, as if your heart had been accidentally demagnetized by a surge of expectations.
“With every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via lalalarooster)
“I’m up in the woods
(Run from the lights, run from the night)
I’m down on my...”
– Lost in the World - Kanye West. (via wavewashedhopes)
“I guess you saw them as beautiful because you couldn’t bear to see them broken.”
– The Wars, Timothy Findley (via seaghostsoaring)
“The most important thing is not life, but the good life.”
– Socrates in Crito by Plato (via slurpeekid)
“Memory is identity….You are what you have done; what you have done is in your...”
– Julian Barnes, Nothing to Be Frightened Of (via gaws)