April 2011
“I am ashamed of my century, but I have to smile.”
– Frank O’Hara (via aurai)
“Here is my gift, not roses on your grave, not sticks of burning incense. You...”
– Anna Akhmatova, “In Memory of M. B.,” translated by Max Hayward and Stanley Kunitz (via proustitute)
halsteadm asked: I aspire to write like you. Hell, even create one of your sentences in my head would be heavenly. To make people see, smell and breathe your experiences is a true gift.
“You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt (via bavarde)
“…recite the list
of what you’ve learned to do without.
It is stronger than...”
– Stephen Dunn, from “Traveling” (adapted from yesyes)
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Warm Enough To Walk Without Jackets
Yesterday my father came to visit. He brought me three things - a mix CD, a book about cult movies, and a map. He’s always giving me maps, as if he imagines me wandering lost through the city all the time. My bookshelves are cluttered with guidebooks. I love him for it.
We drove around sunny Brooklyn, pointing out restaurants that might be good for lunch. We settled on a burger joint and...
Anonymous asked: I want to know what's it is like to kiss a girl and, on a completely different note, I'm afraid I won't like where my job takes me.
Anonymous asked: i don't know if i want to marry my boyfriend or leave him.
Anonymous asked: If you do not mind, can you share the links to some of your favorite blogs and the titles of your favorite books? I love all of the quotes your post and all the classy fashion. Your blog is one of my favorites. If I had a more personal blog, or a blog as wonderful as yours, I wouldn't be anonymous right now.
“In one way or another, we’re all anchored to the book. A library is a metaphor...”
– Roberto Bolaño (via kelsfjord)
“If I suspected the author was trying to show me how to be a better behaved girl,...”
– Beverly Cleary (via thesaltwaternight)
“There are the occasions that men—intellectual men, clever men, engaged...”
– Melissa McEwan, of course, on the terrible bargain.
tenille asked: I am looking for a new trench coat...and though I tend toward black usually I was thinking something more colorful. Any inexpensive suggestions?
“Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and...”
– Gilles Deleuze (via mianoti)
“I kind of have an issue with all the 90s fashion that’s coming back into style...”
– take a face break.
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is...”
– Dead Poets Society (via bserene)
sarahb:
Take five minutes and read this if you’re feeling stressed or tired or empty, or even if you’re not.
anarttoeverything asked: My secret? I secretly hope that we sit next to eachother on the Subway and become best friends (hah, I'm such a loser!)
Really, though, I adore your blog.
Really, though, I adore your blog.
thebronzemedal asked: Hey, I'm doing my post-Easter read-back. Not sure if you're still soliciting secrets, but mine is that I always tell people I'm busy so that I can stay in and finish a book. I know, I know, it's both cliched (for a librarian) and terrible.
Anonymous asked: Secret: I thought I knew what I was doing with my life. I don't, and I'm scared.
hidingundertrees asked: When I was 8, I went behind the "adults only" curtain at the local video store. When the clerk came to remove me, I told him I was the bad kid at school.
How's that for a secret?
How's that for a secret?
Anonymous asked: My secret? I love toying with boy's minds. I know it's awful, but I find it entertaining :s
Anonymous asked: Deep down, I want to move to another country with a new name and a blank slate and never look back.
“You know, it is good to hide your brilliance under a bushel, to be anonymous, to...”
– J. Krishnamurti, by way of whiskey river & sharanam. (via crashinglybeautiful)
I solicited for secrets and now I’m not sure what to do with them. Do I post them? Do I delete them? I loved receiving all of them.
Anonymous asked: I read your blog occasionally. I admire your writing. We actually have a lot in common. But I could never tell you any of this because you don't know that I know about your blog.
Send me your secrets. →
“I want to look intently at grasses and pink people, old venerable churches, to...”
– Egon Schiele (adapted from buried-denmark; sharpsharpteeth)
“At the time, I often thought that if I had had to live in the trunk of a dead...”
– Albert Camus, l’étranger, 1942
(onlyondemairt)
“I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that...”
– Joan Didion (via drinkyourjuice) 