April 2011
Anonymous: I’m trying to find a pair of brown flats that I can walk around the city in… any suggestions ??
This was a surprisingly difficult hunt! There will probably be more options in a month, when everyone has fully retired their boots for the year, but here’s what I came up with. Since I don’t know your style or budget, I tried to include a wide variety.
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“When we started, we thought we were looking for smart people, but it turned out...”
– paul graham, money man | via david-noel:bijan
(via texturism)
March 2011
“Consider me deaf and dumb,
Black and white,
This house – isn’t mine, I’ve...”
– Vera Pavlova, translated by A. Kneller
(via aubade)
“The whir of I should be, I should be, I should be
slows to silence,
the...”
– Marie Howe, from “The Moment” (full poem here)
“It’s not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join...”
– Stephen Fry (via theremina)
Today, In Boring Things I Have Said To People:
“Check out the new tea I just bought!”
Nobody cares, Caroline.
But you guys! - check out the new tea I just bought:
So wild.
Anonymous asked: I just found your blog today and I love it! We are seriously kindred souls. :-)
“When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further...”
– Jules Renard, The Journal of Jules Renard (via aperfectcommotion)
“Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely...”
– Zora Neale Hurston (via totistoolegittoquit)
WatchTrent Baily Photography for Rue - fantastic bedroom decorating inspiration.
adriennes asked: I started following you after reading about your locksmith fiasco, so I just wanted to tell you about the dream locksmith I discovered yesterday, even though maybe you have heard about him from others. Lockbusters! http://bit.ly/fpOa8R I may not have thought to look for a locksmith on Yelp if I hadn't ready your account, so thank you.
“The first time we made love we weren’t sleeping together so much as we were...”
– delawareareyou
“In London umbrellas were opened and then shut by people looking up at the sky.”
– The Years, Virginia Woolf (via sketchofthepast)
“I lie in your arms. I kiss your mouth. Use your nails, creature. Our roles—the...”
– Aaron Shurin, from “Human Immune” (via proustitute)
Revelations I Have Had...
… while walking behind someone slow and weaving when I’m late for work and we’re on the subway steps and I can hear a train coming and ohmygodifthatsmytrain just let me get by PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE:
I am capable of murder.
“What other option did I have, now that words had failed me? What do any of us...”
– Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear (via ricktimus)
“I consider it a failing and a tragedy that I’ll never be in a late nineties WB...”
– cardigangirl
“The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are...”
– Charles DuBos (via kissmeimlazy)
“I’m not going to call them a movement. Movements go somewhere. The Men’s Rights...”
– Squashed (via thebronzemedal)
This lovely singing is original work recorded on...
“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it’s always ourselves we find in the...”
– E.E. Cummings (via thecupcaketologist)
“Me: Right. But it’s not just about money. It’s not the money...”
– Wait, what.
