February 2012
93 posts
“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling...”
– Jack Kerouac (via comelylittletree)
“A girl who is a non-conformist, who doesn’t follow the fads. Of course, I...”
– Peter Noone describing his dream girl (1960s)
“Books are, let’s face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural...”
– Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree (via excessivebookshelf)
“I couldn’t name it, the sweet
sadness welling up in me for weeks.
So I...”
– Dorianne Laux, “After Twelve Days of Rain” (via grammatolatry)
“Many of the most deeply spiritual moments of my life haven’t happened just in my...”
– Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet (via creatingaquietmind)
“Maybe there’s something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love,...”
– John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson (via loveyourchaos)
“Yet the one I think of most often,
the one that dangles from me like a locket,...”
– from Marginalia, Billy Collins (via cartographe)
“The moon is backing away from us
an inch and a half each year. That means
if...”
– Dorianne Laux, “Facts About the Moon” (via fleurishes)
“Introverts are much less often groomed for leadership positions, even though...”
– Quiet, Please: Unleashing ‘The Power Of Introverts’ : NPR (via infoneer-pulse)
“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via fornicating)
“All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of...”
– Eugene Field (The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac)
“I love you to pieces, distraction, etc.”
– J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey (via pattiocleavis)
“I’m sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could...”
– J.D. Salinger (via atomiclanterns)
“I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud...”
– Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner (via aurelle)
“Just because you’re offended, doesn’t mean you’re right.”
– Ricky Gervais (via sirmitchell)
“The fear of an unknown never resolves, because the unknown expands infinitely...”
– Skin Game: A Memoir, Caroline Kettlewell (via self-injury-net)
“Narrow minds devoid of imagination. Intolerance, theories cut off from reality,...”
– Haruki Murakami (via adjectival)
“Sometimes it seems as though not a moment has moved, but then you look up and...”
– Jacqueline Woodson, Between Madison and Palmetto (via creatingaquietmind)
“I loved him most
when he came home from work,
his fingers still curled from...”
– Dorianne Laux, The Shipfitter’s Wife (via fleurishes)
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently?...”
– Lewis Carroll (via ophidiophobic) 