February 2012
109 posts
8 tags
“In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert
“[this is a sacred story.]
I write down a line
that turns into two
...”
– Hali Sofala, from “Mamalu” (via the-final-sentence)
“You and your photographs of boats;
that repeated metaphor for departure,
or...”
– Cyril Wong, Boats (via yesyes)
awwakemysoul:
Bon Iver - Wash (live and...
“[A miracle, just take a look around:
the world is everywhere.]
An additional...”
– Wisława Szymborska, from “A Miracle” (via the-final-sentence)
23 Free Essays & Stories by David Foster Wallace... →
“9/11: The View From the Midwest” (Rolling Stone, October 25, 2001)
“All That” (New Yorker, December 14, 2009)
“An Interval” – (New Yorker, January 30, 1995)
“Asset” - (New Yorker, January 30, 1995)
“Backbone,” An Excerpt from The Pale King (New Yorker, March 7, 2011)
“Brief Interviews with Hideous Men” (The Paris Review, Fall 1997)
“Consider the Lobster” (Gourmet, August 2004)
“David...
“Of all your old photographs, I wanted
this one for its becoming. I think
you...”
– Gabeba Baderoon, from “Old Photographs” (via proustitute)
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“I.
Our kiss is a secret handshake, a password.
We love like spies, like...”
– Mindy Nettifee, “This is the Nonsense of Love” (via fleurishes)
“Having found some daguerreotypes on the floor of an attic—portraits eroded by...”
– Patrick Dubost, from “What I Know” (translated by Fiona Sampson)
“And if all that is meaningless, I want to be cured
Of a craving for something I...”
– T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party. (via askios)
1 tag
“When I said I wasn’t with another girl
the January after we fell in love for...”
– Jon Sands, A Working List of Things I Will Never Tell You
Still kills me.
(via holdonmagnolia)
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly...”
– C.S. Lewis (via brightbluedoor)
5 tags
“There is love of course. And then there’s life, its enemy.”
– Jean Anouilh
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“He is exactly
the poem
I wanted to write.”
– Mary Oliver, White Heron Rises Over Blackwater (via lavandula)
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“We kissed for hours in the busted-up front seat of a borrowed Chevy, which, in...”
– Diane Ackerman
5 tags
Watchfymoviescenes:
Forgetting Sarah Marshall, directed by Nicholas Stoller (2008)
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seise:
The Sundays - Wild Horses
mythologyofblue:
“The being I am waiting for is not real.”
-Roland Barthes
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“I want a red dress.
I want it flimsy and cheap,
I want it too tight, I want to...”
– “What Do Women Want?,” Kim Addonizio (via clavicola)
“It’s easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.”
– Jonathan Carroll, Kissing the Beehive (via holdonmagnolia)
“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curve of your...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via waitingforteaagain)
