February 2012
“I’m grateful for anything that reminds me of what’s possible in this life. Books...”
– Jonathon Safran Foer (via emotional-algebra)
“Faithfulness is proven in the seeming absence of a promise.”
– Jeff Dollar (via blakestratton)
What's so simple in the moonlight by the morning...
“When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you’re not here, I can’t go to...”
– Rumi (via emotional-algebra)
“Books are, let’s face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural...”
– Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree (via excessivebookshelf)
“To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is...”
– Roland Barthes (via change-your-lineweights)
“Now that I’ve made the commitment to myself, to enjoy my ride…everything seems...”
– Vicci Martinez (via emotional-algebra)
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I miss my best friend.
“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and...”
– Carson McCullers (via emotional-algebra)
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This is why I love quickienewyork. Yes, there is a...
quickienewyork:
I’m a 20 year old virgin woman. I want to have sex. I’ve had opportunities, but none of the men really interested me enough. I got turned on and all, just was meh. Is there something wrong with me? Should I wait for someone who means something or is losing your virginity not that big a deal?
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The summer after my junior year of high school I spent every...
“I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when...”
– Mary Oliver (via emotional-algebra)
“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.”
– David Foster Wallace (via 4mbivalent)
“Limitations are really good for you. They are a stimulant. If you were told to...”
– David Hockney, A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney (via)
“When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that’s my religion.”
– Abraham Lincoln (via caitlinplus1)
“Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via emotional-algebra)
“Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep...”
– Henry Lawson (via emotional-algebra)
Warped Tour reminiscing
I am on my way to New Orleans with Shared. Out of nowhere, Shared brought up Warped Tour 2007 and how apparently *I* let him get dropped on his head while he was crowd surfing at the Chiodos show. I don’t remember him, but I almost forgot that moment. It was the first concert I brought Peyton to and also it was his first mosh pit. For some crazy reason us two ended up being this tiny bridge...
“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it...”
– Anthony Bourdain (via emotional-algebra)
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“In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the...”
– Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion (via emotional-algebra)
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Almost a year.
Today I was on a break from class and went to get a fruit cup from the coffee place in Holmes. On the way back, I saw him. I think it was March, another Wednesday, when I saw him last. I expected it last semester walking on the board walk to and from class, but never did. I figured this semester was safe. We’re almost half way through but there he was. I’ll graduate at the end of...
“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to...”
– Muhammad Ali (via emotional-algebra)
“Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via emotional-algebra)
“Our notions about happiness entrap us. We forget that they are just ideas. Our...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via emotional-algebra)
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“I get “Ya know I’m really depressed and I’ll never meet a girl like that again...”
– Henry Rollins, 2006 (via azgoroth)
“People think that the suicidal are sitting there suffering in their own pain all...”
– John Darnielle (via globochem)
$40 or sleeping in for another three hours?
I’m picking the sleep.
“Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets...”
– Hunter S. Thompson (via lostinamerica)
I’m going to apply this to my weekend.
“Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.”
– David Foster Wallace (via absea)
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“”The best journeys answer questions that in the beginning you...”
– Jeff Johnson
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Austin, Texas or Colorado?