February 2012
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“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (via mycardboardboxes)
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“When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled...”
– Louise Erdrich, The Plague of Doves (via deprecatio)
January 2012
11 posts
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“I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, then all at once.”
– The Fault in Our Stars John Green (via decembrist)
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“My suitcase is packed
With all your heartbeats
So I walk to their sound
And...”
– Dead Man’s Bones, “Intro”
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Reading always makes me feel better. Your worries...
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December 2011
2 posts
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November 2011
1 post
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October 2011
4 posts
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“Life is like a typographical error: we’re constantly writing and rewriting...”
– Bret Easton Ellis, The Rules of Attraction
September 2011
3 posts
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“To be young. To be young. There is nothing else like it: there is nothing else...”
– William Faulkner, Light in August
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Touch me not with your hands but the way I can feel you. Touch me not with your hands but within your soul.
— Damien Rice, translation of “Eskimo”
August 2011
4 posts
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“Did you know stars have shadows? They do. And can you imagine what it feels like...”
– Mark Z. Danielewski, The Fifty Year Sword
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This is our decision: To live fast and die young. We’ve got the vision, Now lets have some fun. Yeah, it’s overwhelming, But what else can we do? Get jobs in offices And wake up for the morning commute?
-MGMT, “Time to Pretend”
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“When we love someone, or perhaps better said, fall in love with someone, what...”
– Lars Gustafsson, The Death of a Beekeeper
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Hear the sirens call me home.
— The Swell Season, “Once”
July 2011
30 posts
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Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title.
— Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room
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“Few people realise the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material...”
– H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
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“Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heaven.”
– John Milton, Paradise Lost
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“An ivory-faced and silvery-haired old woman opened the door. She had an evil...”
– Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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“Ignorance is the parent of fear.”
– Herman Melville, Moby Dick
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“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom!”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
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“Oh, let me come in, let me see some day the way your eyes see.”
– Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
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“Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of...”
– Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
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“I wish I could cross my arms and cross your mind.”
– Owl City, “Tidal Wave”
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“What I mean is, lots of time you don’t know what interests you most till...”
– J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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“With filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of...”
– William Golding, Lord of the Flies
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“Man’s destiny is to be the first to learn that creatures like man have a...”
– Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
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“For a second I am the world…”
– Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
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“The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her....”
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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“If you do something too good, then, after a while, if you don’t watch it, you...”
– J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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Far out, too far to see with the human eye to to hear with the human ear, is everything we have lost. We add to that loss feelings that are unbearable. Send them out into deep space, where we hope they will never touch us. Sometimes, in our dreams, we see the boxed-up miseries and fears, orbiting two miles up, outside our little world, never could rocket them away far enough, never could get rid...
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“Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate...”
– Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
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“There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact...”
– Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
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“Fall upward into a heaven set afire at the edge of the sea.”
– Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch