March 2012
“The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.”
– Mark Twain (via thechocolatebrigade)
February 2012
PANK Magazine / Jeanann Verlee →
“I didn’t want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you...”
– Ernest Hermingway (via lovecanleavetheroom)
What Lot's Wife Would Have Said (If She Wasn't A...
eating-poetry:
Do you remember when we met in Gomorrah? When you were still beardless, and I would oil my hair in the lamp light before seeing you, when we were young, and blushed with youth like bruised fruit. Did we care then what our neighbors did in the dark?
When our first daughter was born on the River Jordan, when our second cracked her pink head from my body like a promise, did...
justanasiansensation:
Fluorescent Adolescent -...
Degausser - Brand New
take me, take me back to...
“I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side Of Paradise (via nagging)
grayhorizons:
I Miss You / Blink 182
seabois:
When F. Scott Fitzgerald was 6 years old he had a birthday party to which nobody came. He waited on the porch all afternoon in his freshly pressed suit but nobody showed, so at last he went inside and ate his entire birthday cake, including several candles.
“I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via setyourcompass)
“When I see an old movie, like from the ’40s or ’50s or ’60s, the people look so...”
– Rudy Rucker (via princess-steppenwolf)
“And yet a woman’s weight is seen by American culture as an outward manifestation...”
– Everybody, Every Body: the Media’s Erasure of Fat Girls (via wewantrevolutiongirlstylenow)
Short Story Number Seven Hundred and Twenty Nine
keremmermutlu:
I know I’m still at school and everything, but I seem to think about the future a lot. I always wonder about us and if we’ll still be best friends in twenty years or something. I hope so. I know it sounds kind of impossible, but I really hope so. I like the idea of us swapping books and records with each other until we grow old. I like the idea that when I can’t sleep I can call...
“Amphetamines are the most American drug. You get so much done. You look...”
– Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk (via thechocolatebrigade)
“Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via in-finitus)
“‘One thing that always worried me,’ she said slowly, smiling at Warren, ‘there...”
– Joyce Carol Oates (via setyourcompass)
“When your mother hits you, do not strike back. When the boys call asking your...”
– “Unsolicited Advice to Adolescent Girls With Crooked Teeth and Pink Hair,” Jeanann Verlee (via wewantrevolutiongirlstylenow)
“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.”
– David Foster Wallace; Infinite Jest
[I’ve posted this before, but since today is his birthday, I’ll re-post it.]
(via wordpainting)
Short Story Number Seven Hundred and Twenty Eight
keremmermutlu:
I’m not going to pretend to be a ghost anymore. I’m going to try and fix myself and forget about you and do something nice for once. I’m not sure if I’m going crazy, but I also really like the idea of sitting in my room and drawing lots of stars all over the walls. I’ll use bright markers that glow in the dark. I’ll draw them until i get tired and then I’ll fall asleep and...
“To get a better idea try this: focus on these words, and whatever you do don’t...”
– House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (via thechocolatebrigade)
“In nineteen minutes, you can mow the front lawn; color your hair; watch a third...”
– Jodi Picoult (via inmemoryofmysanity)
“Later — when things happened that they could never have imagined — she wrote him...”
– The History Of Love (via thesuicidediaries)
“I’m trying to find myself as a person, sometimes that’s not easy to do. Millions...”
– Marilyn Monroe (via nagging)