December 2010
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“For he was firmly of the conviction that the body was more susceptible to...”
– Julia Stuart (The Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise)
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“Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
It...”
– Aimee Bender (The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake)
kinbote, shade, timofey, humbert
littlepotato:
for lack of anything else to say and as a study tool, here is my vocabulary list for my nabokov final this afternoon. considering the works we have recently covered this list seems lacking in words both ornithological and lepidopterical and strangely concerned with anatomy. whatevs yo.
bodkin: blunt, large-eyed needle. generally used for threading ribbon or thread through...
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“If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine...”
– Sloane Crosley (How Did You Get This Number)
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“One of the reasons I hate Hollywood so much is that they portray the travails of...”
– Steve Almond & Julianna Baggott (Which Brings Me to You)
“The truth is, of course, that the curtness of the Ten Commandments is an...”
– G.K. Chesterton in the Illustrated London News, January 3, 1920 (via gkchestertonquote)
Seriously, so good y’all. So so good.
(via ajamison)
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“Most people know the sheer wonder that goes with falling in love, how not only...”
– Caryll Houselander (The Reed of God)
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“He breathed in her hair, the sweet-smelling thickness of it. My father usually...”
– Aimee Bender (The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake)
“Loneliness does not come from having no people around one, but from being unable...”
– Carl Jung (via theformofbeauty)
