December 2011
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“For me it is the act of writing that unlocks the frame. I pin my tragedy onto...”
– Maggie MacKellar, When it Rains (via proustitute)
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Sepia
If sepia were a feeling or emotion, what would it be? Contentment? Longing? Optimism? Exasperation? Eagerness? Spite? Melancholy? Anxiety? If you were to say ‘I feel sepia,’ like you were saying ‘I feel blue,’ what would it mean?
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“So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, ‘Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close’
Sigh, Jonathan. You are the ax, and you, too, break my heart, and you always win, you always win.
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“Love it will not betray you, dismay or enslave you, it will set you free. Be...”
– Mumford and Sons, ‘Sigh No More’
(Pardon me, I’m having a major fangirl moment.)
November 2011
13 posts
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Hello, friends! Just updated my blog :)
The dreams in our hearts are worth something. Don’t regard them with indifference because you’re afraid you’re the only one who cares. Don’t hold them in contempt because they’re too crazy (and too costly) for anyone’s money. Don’t silence them because the world, it seems, is not ready for it. These are the things worth fighting for, and there is nobody...
Bookdrum →
A map of literary settings.
This is incredible!
“…it’s important to start facing your demons early on. That’s going to be your...”
– Miranda July
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For the first time, I’m beating myself miserable over being nowhere near good at what I’m currently doing. And all it asks of me is to be a little crazy.
Hm,
I don’t intend to romanticize, but I find that I do get depressed when I go for too many days without reading or writing. It feels as though I’m being robbed of life.
“The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. ‘You’ll...”
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- Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth (via jessica-mendoza)
Constantly
In the wrong place at the wrong time
certainly not the case just can’t help but feel like
indeed I am constantly in the wrong place at the wrong time
The irresistible urge to clean, tidy up, and organize ends at some point, and there begins apathy for mess, and the misconstrued belief that all is in beautiful chaos.
Today.
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It ain't growth
if it ain’t painful.
“Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you...”
– E.L. Konigsburg (via julie911)
October 2011
32 posts
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“Maybe I had miscalculated what was left of my life. Maybe it wasn’t loose...”
– Miranda July, in an excerpt from It Chooses You on the New Yorker.
Now I really, really want to read It Chooses You.
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Ever get pangs of severe ache
that you wish for nothing but all to halt and the possibility of flight that you might at once lock in embrace that which - or whom - you’ve been severely missing?
25 Insights on Becoming a Better Writer →
“I knew that in the end of the movie he would realize he was selling trees not...”
– Miranda July, in an excerpt from It Chooses You, published on the New Yorker Book Bench
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“If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams, and endeavors to...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via bookmania)
“I love our country, but what is our country? It is a land exploited by its own...”
– F. Sionil Jose, My Brother My Executioner
“I’m not interested in instant gratification. … And I think the only way...”
– Elizabeth Olsen, from an interview on NYTimes.com
Pinoy Tumblr.: Land of Bondage, Land of the Free... →
pinoytumblr:
Once upon a time, the tao owned a piece of land. It was all he owned. But he cherished it, for it gave him three things, having which, he was content: life, first of all; and liberty, and happiness.
Then one day the Spaniard came and commanded him to pay tribute to the crown of Spain. The tao…
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“As a stalwart reader of printed books, I’m left to wonder what will happen to...”
– Jane Brox, Illuminating Texts (via bookmania)
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OOSS: Shiny, Happy People, a mixtape
Listen to it here! :)
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Thank you, Steve →
On behalf of us, 20-somethings.
When a girl says she wants to lose weight,
it usually means she wants to be thin enough to look good in a bikini.
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