December 2008
131 posts
“I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.”
– Rudyard Kipling
“Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due...”
– W. Somerset Maugham
“There’s no disappointment in memory, and one’s exaggerations are...”
– George Eliot
November 2008
200 posts
peterluna:
Josh Kelley - “Cain & Able”
This...
“It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most...”
– Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (via brittjohnson)
“There is little proportion about either pain or pleasure: a headache darkens the...”
– William Dean Howells (Their Wedding Journey)
“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s...”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
100 notable books of 2008 →
markn:
(via paperbackgirl)
“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect....”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via outlaws) (via amandoline)
“You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right...”
– Calvin & Hobbes (via captain-strangeperson) (via becausewhy) (via unicornology) (via vegbear)
“You can set sail to the west if you want to
and past the horizon till I can’t...”
– Gregory and the Hawk - Boats and Birds (via willmccloud)
“To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity...”
– William Blake , Auguries of Innocence
The New Pornographers - “The Spirit Of...
“The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory...”
– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
(via You Are Remarkable)
(via heartliketwigs)
“We judge ourselves based on what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (via beckynotrebecca)
“Fail early and get it all over with. If you learn to deal with failure, you can...”
– Rev. William L. Swig (via wild tigers i have known)
“It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures;
one must,...”
– Vincent van Gogh
“Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth -
for your love is more delightful...”
– Song of Songs (via onemoretimewithfeeling)
hellovagina:
I appeal from your customs. I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should. I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me, and the...
“Self pity is poision. There is no time. I need a future and refuse to become a...”
– Richard Cohen, Blindsided (via wild tigers i have known)
“There is always one person you love who becomes that definition. It usually...”
– Chuck Klosterman (via moniekh) (via darlingdarla)
“When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with...”
– Frederick Buechner (via jaim)
Radiohead - “I Want None of This”