October 2012
7 posts
“You make me nostalgic for a love that hasn’t even happened yet.”
– Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You (via loveyourchaos)
apoetreflects:
“Remember me is all I ask, And, if remembered be a task, Forget me.”
—Album verses by Minerva Butler Miller, tinsmith’s daughter, peddler’s wife, c. 1850.
A dramatic Shakespearean response to every...
When something bad happens: True is it that we have seen better days.
When something REALLY bad happens: O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day! Most lamentable day. Most woeful day That ever, ever I did yet behold! O day, O day, O day! O hateful day! Never was seen so black a day as this.O woeful day! O woeful day!
When people say that something is wrong because the Bible says so: The Devil can cite scripture for his purpose.
When my girlfriend abandons me for food: FRAILTY, THY NAME IS WOMAN!
When someone doesn't thank me for holding the door open for them: BLOW, BLOW, BLOW, THOU WINTER WIND! THOU ART NOT SO UNKIND AS MAN'S INGRATITUDE!
When I burn something while cooking: MY CAKE IS DOUGH!
When human stupidity frustrates me: LORD, WHAT FOOLS THESE MORTALS BE!
When someone says I'm going to hell for my sins: NYMPH, IN THY ORISONS BE ALL MY SINS REMEMBER'D.
When I'm broke: My pride fell with my fortunes
When someone turns the light on after a period of darkness and blinding light ensues: OH, SHE DOTH TEACH THE TORCHES TO BURN BRIGHT!
When someone disagrees with me: THERE ARE MORE THINGS IN HEAVEN AND EARTH, HORATIO, THEN ARE DREAMT OF IN YOUR PHILOSOPHY.
When I argue with my girlfriend: The course of true love never did run smooth.
When I'm embarrassed: MUST I HOLD A CANDLE TO MY SHAMES?!
Someone says "Good Night": Good Night, Good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.
The Piano is Not Firewood Yet: A list of things I... →
5000letters:
Will you help me find the end of a rainbow?
Do you think we can plant a weeping willow in the backyard?
Your dreams, are they in black and white?
Will you ever grow a beard?
Do you think we’ll find faeries in Ireland?
What do you think a cloud would feel like in my hands?
(Will you…
The Piano is Not Firewood Yet: A list of things I... →
5000letters:
Will you help me find the end of a rainbow?
Do you think we can plant a weeping willow in the backyard?
Your dreams, are they in black and white?
Will you ever grow a beard?
Do you think we’ll find faeries in Ireland?
What do you think a cloud would feel like in my hands?
(Will you…
“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her...”
– Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient (via flentes)
September 2012
46 posts
status: back in Melbourne: Quezo →
jascurtissmith:
Read this on my facebook timeline. Queso Jazzy kicking in! But so true :) Written by a guy apparently!
“Ang galing ng lalaking nagsulat nito:
”Ang mga babae, madaldal/mabunganga.” Oo, wala talagang tigil ang bibig nila sa pag-rachada sa kakasalita. Lalo na sa tuwing pinapaalala nila sayo na…
“They say a dream only takes a second or so, and yet in that second a man can...”
– Rod Serling (via ahorton92)
“[Yes, that was how she would like to think of that particular sweetness.] The...”
– Marcha Mehran, from “Pomegranate Soup” (thanks, emmiiiii)
“Even now, when skin is not alone,
it remembers being alone and thanks something...”
– Naomi Shihab Nye, from “Two Countries” (via kathleenjoy)
“She could not explain or quite understand that it wasn’t altogether jealousy she...”
– Runaway by Alice Munro (via lostinthesounds)
“It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of...”
– The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd (via lostinthesounds)
“Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could...”
– The Peach Keeper by Sarah Addison Allen (via lostinthesounds)
“I think I needed to be really hurt on the outside so the hurt on the inside...”
– Sarra Manning (via lostinthesounds)
“Each relationship between two persons is absolutely unique. That is why you...”
– The Shack by William Paul Young (via lostinthesounds)
“Words are dangerous things, equally capable of bringing peace and inciting...”
– Unknown (via loveyourchaos)
“I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.”
– Girl, Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen (via imfantasyparade)
“Self-pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So,...”
– Becoming a Man by Paul Monette (via lostinthesounds)
“I loved her. I can’t forget that. So I don’t see why everyone else can.”
– The Pact by Jodi Picoult (via lostinthesounds)
“I loved her. I can’t forget that. So I don’t see why everyone else can.”
– The Pact by Jodi Picoult (via lostinthesounds)
“You still secretly believe that there is an element of magic to this world? It’s...”
– The Fault in Our Stars | John Green (via austentatious)
“This was the wonderful thing about strangers. They were big blank pieces of...”
– Paint It Black by Janet Fitch (via lostinthesounds)
“But it was too interesting, too new, too flattering, too deeply comforting to...”
– On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan (via lostinthesounds)
“Instead of moving, I thought about Juliet some more. I wondered what she would...”
– New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (via lostinthesounds)
“Perhaps it is our fear, that in the silence between stories, in the moment of...”
– Nick Flynn (via lostinthesounds)
“Why does one begin to write? Because she feels misunderstood, I guess. Because...”
– Nicole Krauss (via lostinthesounds)
“But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want...”
– Neither Here nor There by Bill Bryson (via lostinthesounds)
“You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone’s soul, becomes their...”
– The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (via lostinthesounds)
“You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone’s soul, becomes their...”
– The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (via lostinthesounds)
“I wish there were a rule book for intimacy. Some kind of a guide that could tell...”
– Grey’s Anatomy (via lostinthesounds)
August 2012
14 posts
“He thinks I suffer from depression. But I’m just quiet. Solitude and depression...”
– Love Begins in Winter by Simon Van Booy (via lostinthesounds)
“I had no voice to talk with because she was my whole language. Without her to...”
– Love is a Mix Tape, Rob Sheffield (via abcmxyz)
“Human benevolence is totally unfair. We don’t live in a kind or generous world,...”
– Rob Sheffield, Love is a Mix Tape (via jessigrace) 