January 2012
“remember you
are not you, now. you are you
a year from now. how does that...”
– Human Trampoline.: Survival Poem #17, Marty McConnell
Three of Cups
yourguttersoul:
the heart with its gift for magnificent expansion is not coal. not fruit set to spoil or the dollar cringing in its wallet. when you say darling, the world lights up at its edges. Marty McConnell
Holy shit
After wikipedia-ing Stephen King to see where he peaked I just found out that he’s writing a sequel to The Shining. I fucking loved The Shining—it’s one of my favorite novels. Either it’s going to be fucking fantastic or fucking horrible but either way I’m excited.
“People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that...”
– Alexander (The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern)
“You have to understand your limitations so you can overcome them.”
– Prospero (The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern)
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Hector: Why do we wind our watch?
Celia: Because everything requires energy. We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Alexander: But such a temper is always an unfortunate variable. It can lead to impulsive behavior.
Hector: She'll either grow out of it or learn to control it.
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is...”
– Oscar Wilde (via The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern)
Frida Kahlo to Marty McConnell
leaving is not enough; you must stay gone. train your heart like a dog. change the locks even on the house he’s never visited. you lucky, lucky girl. you have an apartment just your size. a bathtub full of tea. a heart the size of Arizona, but not nearly so arid. don’t wish away your cracked past, your crooked toes, your problems are papier mache puppets you made or bought because the...
I don't need anyone to make me happy
but I sure as hell don’t need anyone in my life trying to make me unhappy.
I cringe when I look at what’s been archived on here. How could I have possibly related to such teen angst, such melodramatic bullshit??
And then I realize I’m still reblogging angst-y, melodramatic quotes and shit that seem relevant, even now. -___________________- Come 4 weeks (or less) time I’ll be ashamed about ever posting it in the first place.
It’s dumb to do...
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish...”
– Anaïs Nin (via kari-shma)
“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place, I told him, like...”
– Azar Nafisi (via inwaves) (via suzywire) (via rememo) (via jaune) (via breathsoftruth)
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“She was not good on the phone. She needed the face, the pattern of eyes, nose,...”
– Lorrie Moore (via Confuzzzled)
“When you’re drunk, all of those filters are gone and your true self comes...”
– John Cheese
“Things learned the hard way are not soon forgotten.”
– Ball Red Book 15th Edition of Greenhouse Growing
Antilamentation, by Dorianne Laux
dinahlance:
Regret nothing. Not the cruel novels you read to the end just to find out who killed the cook. Not the insipid movies that made you cry in the dark, in spite of your intelligence, your sophistication. Not the lover you left quivering in a hotel parking lot, the one you beat to the punchline, the door, or the one who left you in your red dress and shoes, the ones that crimped your...
“George Santayana famously warned in 1905 that, “those who cannot remember...”
– Geoff Shakespeare
Things That Irritate Me
People still using the term “winning” a la Charlie Sheen
“Show me a man or a woman alone and I’ll show you a saint. Give me two and...”
– Stephen King
“Pace around in the kitchen and say that you are unhappy.
But I love you, he...”
– Lorrie Moore
“Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has...”
– Lorrie Moore
“Quit putting your sexual encounters on a scoreboard. How many one-night stands...”
– Dear Coke Talk: On three girls who don’t get it.
Thoughts after midnight
Start to pick up The Silence Of The Lambs
Put it down—realize it’s too late at night to be starting a horror novel
Instead pick Self-Help Stories by Lorrie Moore off the stack of books next to the bed that were brought from home
Cringe at the title
Start reading
Remember that this actually contains no self-help stories (thank god for small favors), and instead is made up of...
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My sister: So, it is the new year, which means new resolutions! Since you are a new person you should have a new resolution. You know what I'm going to say to you!
Me: I would say to you what I say to my friends when they offer unwanted advice but I feel weird saying it to you as you are my big sister.
My sister: Tell me, you little shit!
Me: Eat a dick.
[silence]
itsjonvu replied to your photo: what kind of people forget about the rest of the…
solution: fuck everything. go home to him
hah, while that would be great, let’s take a moment to remember that lady gaga quote from eons ago: “Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never...
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lawrsaysrawr replied to your post: just set-up wifi in this house ^__^
wut
I might have forgot to mention to you that I got the job, so I had to move. And I’ve been living here since Sunday without internet on my laptop. And I finally asked my roommate/landlord if she had a router and she handed me a modem, so I looked at the current modem and realized it’s a modem/router combo which...
just set-up wifi in this house ^__^
I DON’T NEED TO GO OUTSIDE FOR INTERACTION ANYMORE, OKAY? I HAVE THE INTERNET.