January 2012
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“You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via troubled)
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What happens if you fall in love with a writer? →
karenfelloutofbedagain:
Lots of things might happen. That’s the thing about writers. They’re unpredictable. They might bring you eggs in bed for breakfast, or they might all but ignore you for days. They might bring you eggs in bed at three in the morning. Or they might wake you up for sex at three in the morning. Or make love at four in the afternoon. They might not sleep at all. Or they might...
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"Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the...
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“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul,...”
– Sylvia Plath (via blua)
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Home:
where the heart and the cats are (and the snow!)
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“I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American...”
– John Green (Looking for Alaska)
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homesick.
What ever happened to hotels? When did they become these clinical environments with sickening fluorescent lighting? Ugly, energy-saving lights permanently lit in the hallways and the lobby, with a nightwatch at the desk and security cameras, because heaven-forbid a patron steals or vandalizes the establishment. Hotels, unless on the more expensive end of the spectrum, have become so ugly and...
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wellalright:
do you ever feel like you’re dying and then realize that’s actually just what being alive feels like sometimes?
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flying.
Tomorrow, I board a plane. It’s probably going to take a 600 mg of motrin and a hydroxyzine to get me there, but then my mother and I will be off to Florida for the week.
How does anyone else not feel ungodly unstable the second the plane lifts from the earth, and wavers to find it’s air-footing? How can anyone trust a genuine stranger to fly them thousands of feet in the air (a...
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“… If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything is Illuminated)
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“What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell. I am a person who believes in...”
– Yann Martel
Yearling shenanigans
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