December 2011
“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.”
– John Steinbeck (via apna-pragmatic-munna)
New Years Resolutions
clavicola:
This year I’ll make myself another promise that I’ll be better, that I’ll lose those ten pounds I gained when I was sad and indifferent. I’ll be kinder; flip more pennies face-up; be a masked vigilante in my own fucked-up reality. I’ll tell myself that this, this is the year. Now is the chance, the big change, my metamorphosis. I’ll peel off my cocoon and emerge with wings that span...
“The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted...”
– Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (via thechocolatebrigade)
“If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony;...”
– Simon Van Booy (via anatomyalice)
“I’m glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you...”
– Bill Hicks (via sirmitchell)
“I thought my fire was out,
and stirred the ashes….
I burnt my fingers.”
– Antonio Machado (via elina-astra)
“A story should be told only when a listener is ready to hear it.”
– Julian, The Secret Letters of The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma (via kari-shma)
“Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much...”
– Herman Hesse (via @johannal)
Leslie Knope: I did a little research, and divorce is the number two most stressful event in a person's life. Of course marriage is number seven. So, watch out everyone. It's all bad.
“No one wants to admit we’re addicted to music. That’s just not possible. No...”
– Lullaby, Chuck Palahniuk (via wrists)
“Better not give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back...”
– Mockingjay, Finnick Odair (via creatingaquietmind)
“Walk with me, hand in hand through the neon and styrofoam. Walk the razor blades...”
– Jeanette Winterson (via suzywire)
Watchthedailywhat:
Movie Trailer of the Day: After a week of shaky, shoddy leaks and bootlegs, the new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Rises has finally been officially released.
The third and final installment in Nolan’s Batman trilogy, which stars Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, and Morgan Freeman, Anne Hathaway, and Tom Hardy, is due to break the box office on July...
thedustdancestoo:
i forgot how much i loved remembering you,
but then i wept, remembering the reasons
why i wanted to forget.
“It’s bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They’re...”
– David levithan and Rachel Cohn, Naomi & ely’s no-kiss list. (via isabelthespy)
juneandafter:
I Wrote This For You:
I picked up my hat and started to write. “You are a place in a story, in which I stop and find myself. You are my best problem. And I want you to feel this. Because this is what it feels like.”
“…and I thought how easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget...”
– Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson (via quote-book)
You Don’t Need To Say Anything
juneandafter:
There was a time when receiving even the most insignificant message from you would have been simply incredible — when it would have told me that, no matter what was happening, I still crossed your mind. Because as we all know, silence is the most brutal statement one can make. Screaming about how much you hated me or telling me I was ugly, well, it would have been tolerable....
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did...”
–
Steve Jobs, Wired, February, 1995 | via
(via kari-shma)
“She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was...”
– Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
I’m totally and utterly in love with this book.
(via itseasyjusttolookaway)
“Science is not “neutral,” nor is it purely beholden to positivism. People do...”
– More Race Science: They Lock Up Those “Crazy” Negro Agitators and Call Them “Schizophrenic,” regarding Jonathan Metzl’s The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease (via thetart)
this is my father’s story
(via guerrillamamamedicine)
Here’s another link talking about racism in...
“He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their...”
– Michael Pollan (via misswallflower)
