January 2012
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December 2011
14 posts
“My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness...”
– Fernando Pessoa (via paperlover)
November 2011
7 posts
“I know a man who likes the seashore after a storm. Late summer afternoons, after...”
– Ana Menéndez, In Cuba I was a German Shepherd
“…for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a...”
– Louisa May Alcott (via loveyourchaos)
“That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the...”
– Joan Didion from “Goodbye To All That” (via droptheknifex.) Today on Fresh Air: Joan Didion. (via nprfreshair)
“I play songs in endless loops. When a song is new to me, and there’s something...”
– Dave Eggers, And Now A Less Informed Opinion (via loveyourchaos)
“One of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty one and even twenty three...”
– Joan Didion, Goodbye To All That, 1968. (via xelvinn) [interview here] (via nprfreshair)
October 2011
8 posts
“If it’s the beaches, if it’s the beaches sands you want than you...”
– Avett Brothers, If It’s The Beaches
“It’s what you do that makes your soul.”
– Barbara Kingsolver (via kari-shma)
Supermarkets
There is something I like about supermarkets. The sweet nuances of a father and his young daughter as she picks out her favorite Popsicle. Or the woman behind the espresso machine, with kind eyes and a shy way of commiserating about the weather and early hour of your arrival. The sweetness in an older gentleman picking up a bouquet of daisies and placing them lighting in the basket. The comfort of...
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve...”
– Steve Jobs
“For our hearts are not pure; our hearts are filled with need and greed as much...”
– Brian Doyle, How We Wrestle With Who We Are
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“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the...”
– Franz Kafka (via talkativolive)
“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul,...”
– Sylvia Plath (via spiritd3sire)
September 2011
12 posts
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“But what then is capital punishment but the most premeditated of murders, to...”
– Albert Camus, writer, philosopher, Nobel laureate (1913-1960)
“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From...”
– The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (via quote-book)
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August 2011
6 posts
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“I would probably have to say that reading fiction — those stories fill the space...”
– Tom Perrotta, on the importance of fiction in his life. (via nprfreshair)
“20 Things I Wish I’d Known at 20
A couple weeks ago, in my letter to...”
– Maggie Mason
“Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t believe in...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides (via troubled)
“You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it...”
– Sugar’s Graduation Speech
“Engrave this upon your heart: there isn’t anyone you couldn’t love once you...”
– Mary Lou Kownacki
July 2011
21 posts
“So much held in a heart in a lifetime. So much held in a heart in a day, an...”
– Brian Doyle