February 2011
27 posts
The difficulty I find in achieving satisfaction stems not from my unwillingness to put forth effort, but my confusion as to its deserving destination. I struggle in deciphering exactly what it is that I want, what will bring me to a state of not necessarily euphoria, as extremes in my life have only ever led to the eventual appearance of the opposite pole, but a state of content, satisfaction and...
January 2011
44 posts
“The wise want love, and those who love want wisdom;
And all best things are...”
– “Prometheus Unbound”, Percy Bysshe Shelley
Discovered the most amazing vintage store in town today. Vintage magazines (aka Life with Katharine Hepburn on the cover), hats with birdcage veils, depression glass, lace and silk chemises… I want to live there.
Also played with a cat in another store, got my cute animal fix.
Thaaaanks Kate
For future reference… if awkward shit gets posted on here, wasn’t me.
“Gurov reflected that, essentially, if you thought of it, everything was...”
– “The Lady with the Little Dog”, Anton Chekhov
Just got my first actual paper back for Freshman Composition, you know, that joke class that I already know everything in but have to take because AP English wouldn’t fit into my high school schedule…
Got an F. Wait… what?
“The people you date aren’t necessarily the people you end up loving and that’s okay. There will be different kinds of people who enter your life at certain times. You date someone who hates you when you hate yourself. Afterwards, you date someone who loves you too much to make it all better. The goal is to eventually have your shit sorted out so you can love someone just because they’re...
“I think it’s brave to try to be happy. You’ve gotten so comfortable...”
– Vivian, “Pushing Daisies”
Quite realistically obsessed with this show now
“How do people, like, not curse? How is it possible? There are these gaps in...”
– A Long Way Down, Nick Hornby (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
Damn truth.
“Everything we do is a choice. Oatmeal or cereal. Highway or side streets. Kiss...”
– Ned, “Pushing Daisies”
God damn I’m too serious. The past few days have been overwhelmed by this “funk” that seems to take over every once in a while. Everything around me just feels like too much. I’m overstimulated and just exhausted. I wish I could wake up, walk out the door and be one of those people I see so often here. Who smiles easily, doesn’t think before speaking and seems to read...
Four new books in the mail, so excited.
Started one today about a man’s experience reading the entire Oxford English Dictionary, including an assorted group of out-of-date words that were particularly interesting to him. I’ve only made it through the C’s but I am loving it already. Wonder what the 16th century word for nerd is?
Jigsaw Falling Into Place: The Writer's Prayer →
hannahb3:
Blessed be the writers who bleed themselves dry, those who spill ink on the page, who live with stories swimming through their bones and prick their lives into letters. For I have tasted their blood and been happy. I have partaken of their flesh. Of their own volition they have bared their breastsfor the knife, drawn paper to catch what might come, and let themselves flow into my...
“The perishable nature of love is what gives love its profound importance in our...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, “My Mistress’s Sparrow is Dead”
You know you're a journalism student when...
…You write a 5 page essay, included sourced parenthetical citations, for an assignment that required a summary of a piece of literature. And everyone in the class (undecided, sociology, education majors) is struggling to write 2 pages… double spaced.
“Silence is more valuable than chatter. Speak only when you know you can resolve...”
– The Instruction of Ptah-hotep
The quietest people have the loudest minds.
There is no experience more enthralling than driving around with your closest friends for no apparent reason. Turn the music up, roll the windows down (weather permitting, or not if you feel like it), and just sing. Or more like yell.
You don’t talk. Or cry, or question, analyze, and regret. You just listen and feel as the music you are collectively belting provides all the words you will...