February 2012
“It’s all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt...”
– Willa Cather (via misswallflower)
“Always move towards pain when making art.”
– The Creativity of Anger | Wired Science | Wired.com /via @tcarmody (via pieratt)
“if i live long enough i’m going to have to go to a place and buy a plot of land...”
– well, alright:
“How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.”
– Alfred de Musset (via eastatlanta)
“There’s brutality, there’s writhing. Writhing is the sexiest verb I know. It’s...”
– Emptying My Pockets
drinkyourjuice:
Santogold — I’m a Lady (Benny...
“I don’t love you as if you were the salt-rose, topaz
or arrow of carnations that...”
– Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets, Sonnet XVII, 1960 (via bookmania)
Meanwhile, Half a Bottle of Wine Into My First...
Me: I want to have crazy sex with at least six people in this movie.
Lily: Seriously.
Me: Preferably separately, but I'm flexible.
Lily: Well, you'd have to be.
Anonymous asked: I read your 'Go after her. Fuck, don't sit there and wait...' post. There's a girl I like. She might like me. I have been 'waiting for a sign' but I really want to tell her that I like her, but I am literally the worlds worst person when it comes to doing stuff like this. Any suggestions? In an ideal world how would you like someone who had a crush on you to tell you?
“You have to pick the places you don’t walk away from.”
– Joan Didion (via poetbabble)
kathleenjoy:
Fleet Foxes - Dancing On My Own...
“Go after her. Fuck, don’t sit there and wait for her to call, go after her...”
– Harvey Milk (via cite-belle)
“A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the...”
– Stephen Fry (via sorakeem)
As One Does
Oh, you know, just spending the morning before work washing my hands with bleach to get out the words “Fuck You” that I scribbled with a pen on my fingers after two glasses of wine at an East Village bar last night.
You know, the bar we went to before we took instagram pictures of ourselves in an abandoned shopping cart on the street. (Does that still count as twee?)
You know, the...
“I have a form of attention deficit disorder. I like to pay attention only to...”
– Jonathan Ames - The Mess I’m In - NYTimes.com
thebronzemedal:
Jenny Owen Youngs ~ Ring of Fire...
“She did not want to go to work, although she was very late; and so she remained...”
– James Alan McPherson, Hue and Cry (via underthechinaberrytree)
Spring Cleaning?
Been thinking about cleaning up this space. Clearing out the clutter, leaving only my writing, and maybe the best quotes. I don’t know if I’m ready to get rid of it all though - the pretty pictures, the meaningless images. I don’t know how my words would react to the loneliness. I’ve been getting an idea to start fresh, but my sentimental side always wins out.
I guess I...
“Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (via aestivial)
“Read the best books first, or you may not have the chance to read them at all.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via libraryland)
“The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at...”
– Derek Walcott, from “Love After Love” (via byleaveswelive)
csebastian:
Skee-Lo - I Wish
Since I've Been Single - A Post-Valentine's Day...
I have been technically single for a little less than six months now. In that period of time:
I have been propositioned for a threesome with my best friend.
Two different men who were “working on their novels” stopped calling me back.
I discovered that meeting for drinks is always preferable to meeting for coffee.
A hipster that I thought seemed like a “really nice guy”...
On Valentine's Day, Midway Through One's Twenties
It is the rare Valentine’s Day that you wake the following afternoon to find you have strained muscles in your neck from dancing with such enthusiasm.
“sometimes i wish i smoked so i could tell people i’m quitting and have them...”
– well, alright:
jamiedrew-deactivated20121129 asked: I would like to make an enquiry regarding Valentine benefits, incentives, etc. before I consider applying. A gentleman has to invest his time wisely, after all.
“I am not an encore, not a pudding, I am the main dish.”
– Joseph Roth (April 22, 1926), Joseph Roth: A Life in Letters (via wwnorton)
