June 2013
1 post
May 2013
8 posts
“Your absence has gone through me
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.” —W. S. Merwin, “Separation” (via proustitute)
Like thread through a needle.
Everything I do is stitched with its color.” —W. S. Merwin, “Separation” (via proustitute)
“She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.”
— Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess (via eatmenotfood)
you never really
know someone
until you’ve read
what they write
at 3 am when
loneliness
consumes them
but does not
destroy them
April 2013
28 posts
“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
—David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King (via soundtobeat)
i quite like myself
slouched over a television with a broken remote,
pale skin alive with glowing colours
at 3:33 in the morningi think i am at my best
when i am hovered
over the kitchen sink just after dark
running hot water
over my raw fingersi feel great
when i am sprawled across my bed
crying before i even wake up
sun pushing, unwanted,
through a dirty windowi am very happy with who i am
i say aloud in the car
all alone
while i consider driving into a tree
i am very happy with who i am
“The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
—Ernest Hemingway (via glorifythehour)
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of majority, its time to pause and reflect.”
—Mark Twain (via youngfolksociety)
“Poetry should be written the way adultery is committed: on the run, on the sly, during the time not accounted for. And then you come home, as if nothing ever happened.”
—Vera Pavlova (via elsweyr)
the invention of the shovel was ground breaking
but the invention of the broom was the one that truly swept the nation.
“Baby, I have no idea how this will end. Maybe the equator will fall like a Hula-Hoop from the earth’s hips and our mouths will freeze mid-kiss on our eightieth anniversary. Or maybe tomorrow my absolute insanity combined with the absolute obstacle course of your communication skills will leave us like a love letter in a landfill. But whatever, whenever, however this ends I want you to know right now, I love you forever.”
—The Madness Vase by Andrea Gibson (via anditslove)
“There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming.”
—Shauna Niequist (via chasing-equilibrium)
“You were unsure which pain is worse—the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.”
—Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After (via anditslove)
March 2013
16 posts
Five facts about reading:
Fact 1: Reading can make you a better conversationalist.
Fact 2: Neighbours will never complain that your book is too loud.
Fact 3: Knowledge by osmosis has not yet been perfected. You’d better read.
Fact 4: Books have stopped bullets - reading might save your life.
Fact 5: Dinosaurs didn’t read. Look what happened to them.
“Writing is such a damn lonely sickness.”
—Robert Frobisher, in David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas (via yeahwriters)
