January 2012
14 posts
this room and everything in it: The Loneliest Job... →
rabbit-light:
As soon as you begin to ask the question, Who loves me? you are completely screwed, because the next question is How Much? and then it is hundreds of hours later, and you are still hunched over your flowcharts and abacus, trying to decide if you have gotten enough. This is the loneliest job…
“I rent my apartment in Brooklyn, but I don’t have a home. My parents are still...”
– Jonathan Ames (via swedesinstockholm)
“When you wrote your letter it was April,
And you were glad that it was spring...”
– Response by Mary Ursula Bethell (with thanks to ahuntersheart)
December 2011
1 post
November 2011
5 posts
“When my son was six he said, “We don’t know how many years we have for our...”
– http://therumpus.net/2011/07/dear-sugar-the-rumpus-advice-column-78-the-obliterated-place/
October 2011
1 post
“Give me a report on the condition of my soul.
Give me a complete statement of...”
– Anne Sexton
September 2011
7 posts
“Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were...”
– James Joyce (via absea)
2 tags
1 tag
WatchI’m ready to party!
1 tag
August 2011
5 posts
“It all comes back. Perhaps it is difficult to see the value in having one’s self...”
– Joan Didion, “On Keeping a Notebook”
Though she would have preferred long ago to have died, fled, gotten it all over with, the body — Jesus, how the body! — took its time. It possessed its own wishes and nostalgias. You could not just turn neatly into light and slip out the window. You couldn’t go like that. Within one’s own departing but stubborn flesh, there was only the long, sentimental, piecemeal...
“No matter where I was, my compass pointed west. I would always know what time it...”
– Janet Fitch
July 2011
4 posts
if i can't go to heaven
jiachi:
let me go to L.A.
YACHT _ Shangri-La
June 2011
4 posts
“Los Angeles is like your brain. You only ever use 20% of it. But imagine if we...”
– David Kipen (via hoodablah)
It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It’s not easy, but if you accept your misfortune, and handle it right, your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound reinvention.
Conan O’Brien (06/12/2011)
May 2011
5 posts
flamelikeme:
TV Girl - If You Want It
the kind...
Sleeping Bag →
hoodablah:
Anna, i think you’d like this band, let’s listen togetherrr
April 2011
7 posts
“Lead her away from Acting but not all the way to Finance. Something where she...”
– Tina Fey’s prayer for her daughter
(via hoodablah)
“You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and...”
– G.K. Chesterton (via hoodablah)
