February 2012
162 posts
“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.”
– Oscar Wilde (via topographe)
“She felt very young; at the same time unspeakably aged. She sliced like a knife...”
– Virginia Woolf “Mrs. Dalloway” (via hermionejg)
“A writer never has a vacation.”
– Eugène Ionesco (via oliveryeh)
“When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I...”
– John Green, Paper Towns (via 23quills)
I Don’t Know What I Can Save You From || Kings Of...
“If you saw her in these moments, you might think she was collecting her thoughts...”
– Steve Martin, The Pleasure Of My Company (via katelizabeth)
“And I don’t really know where I’m going, and I might just be hanging...”
– John Mayer, “A Break In The Clouds”
“Your voice has stolen my soul, soul, soul.”
– The National, “Afraid of Everyone”
TWO THINGS.
Here are two things that the wondrous, spectacular, glitter-bomb of a friend Charlotte sent me:
50 Ways to say “you’re awesome”
Writer inspiration
This is why we’re friends. She is a polished opal in a pewter world.
“Even though you are drowning in valleys of echoes, I believe there is peace in...”
– Katie Herzig, “I Hurt Too”
"Away We Go"
BURT: Do you promise to let our daughter be fat or skinny or any weight at all? Because we want her to be happy no matter what. Being obsessed with weight is just far too cliche for our daughter.
VERONA: Yes, I do. Do you promise, that when she talks, you'll listen? Like, really listen, especially when she's scared? And that her fights will be your fights?
BURT: I do.
“If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet;...”
– Fred Rogers (via inn0centbones)
Part Of Me || Katy Perry
This is completely my...
light-relief (playlist #1)
I’ve been listening to quite a lot of melancholic music lately with lyrics that have layers upon layers of meaning and introspection-triggering sentences. This is my “light-relief” playlist of music to take a break with and jam to. Warning: some of this music would maybe be classified as ‘incredibly uncool’
Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) - Kelly Clarkson
...
“I hope you know that even if I don’t, I wanted to.”
– Rachael Yamagata, “Even if I don’t”