February 2012
2 posts
“Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes...”
– Mary Schmich, “Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young”
January 2012
2 posts
“Anyone can love a thing because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your...”
– Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man’s Fear
December 2011
2 posts
“Everything is gorgeous once it’s gone.”
– Wicked, Gregory Maguire
November 2011
7 posts
“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
“She refused to be bored, chiefly because she wasn’t boring.”
– Zelda Fitzgerald
October 2011
2 posts
“I love the delicate shadow of she wanting me to be.”
– Conspiracy Theory, screenplay by Brian Helgeland
September 2011
4 posts
“Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
April 2011
2 posts
“The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it...”
– Graham Greene, Heart of the Matter
November 2010
2 posts
“I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever,...”
– Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca
October 2010
2 posts
You always hurt the one you love, The one you shouldn’t hurt at all. You always take the sweetest rose, And crush it till the petals fall. You always break the kindest heart, With a hasty word you can’t recall. So if I broke your heart last night, It’s because I love you most of all.
Mills Brothers, You Always Hurt the One You Love
September 2010
6 posts
“What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.”
– Miranda July, Making Love in 2003
“I pressed my lips against his ear and whispered, It’s not your fault....”
– Miranda July, The Shared Pillow
“I’m going all out; I’m thinking you’re just as bad.”
– Paolo Nutini, Rewind
July 2010
1 post
“In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
June 2010
6 posts
you shall above all things
you shall above all things be glad and young For if you’re young,whatever life you wear it will become you;and if you are glad whatever’s living will yourself become. Girlboys may nothing more than boygirls need: i can entirely her only love whose any mystery makes every man’s flesh put space on;and his mind take off time that you should ever think,may god forbid and (in his...
“Maybe there’s a trapdoor under my chair, and I’ll just disappear.”
– J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
“Will you meet me down on a sandy beach? We can roll up our jeans so the tide...”
– Cat Power, Colors and the Kids
May 2010
10 posts
“I know you once said to me,
‘This is exactly how it should feel when...”
– Alicia Keys, Unthinkable
“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time,...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
“When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew.”
– Arrigo Boito
“To live in this world you must be able to do three things: to love what is...”
– Mary Oliver
“He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote...”
– Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
April 2010
10 posts
Don’t go far off, not even for a day, because — because — I don’t know how to say it: a day is long and I will be waiting for you, as in an empty station when the trains are parked off somewhere else, asleep. Don’t leave me, even for an hour, because then the little drops of anguish will all run together, the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift into...
