February 2012
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“The first time that Katniss has to go into the cylinder and she goes up into the...”
– Jennifer Lawrence on The Hunger Games (via maytheodds)
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“I’m sorry this letter is so long, I didn’t have time to make it shorter.”
– George Bernard Shaw
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“I’ve locked up these words, in fear that I’d say them wrong.
Is it love as a...”
– ‘Love is All I Am,’ Dawes (via mermaidsinthebasement)
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6-word short stories
For sale: baby shoes, never worn. -Ernest Hemingway
Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time -Alan Moore
Lie detector eyeglasses perfected: Civilization collapses. -Richard Powers
The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly. -Orson Scott Card
Longed for him. Got him. Shit. -Margaret Atwood
Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth. -Vernor Vinge
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6 Types of Love →
Eros
a passionate physical and emotional love based on aesthetic enjoyment; stereotype of romantic love
Ludus a love that is played as a game or sport; conquest; may have multiple partners at once
Storge an affectionate love that slowly develops from friendship, based…
“Miss someone until they come back, or until you come back, until their absence...”
– How to Miss Someone, Stephanie Georgopulos (via recklessdarling)
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January 2012
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“I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,
or the arrow of...”
– XVII - Pablo Neruda
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you said Is
you said Is
there anything which
is dead or alive more beautiful
than my body,to have in your fingers
(trembling ever so little)?
Looking into
your eyes Nothing,i said,except the
air of spring smelling of never and forever.
....and through the lattice which moved as
if a hand is touched by a
hand(which
moved as though
fingers touch a girl's
breast,
lightly)
...
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“On a side note you can’t love without risk. Sometimes love is a terrible idea,...”
– Steven Elliot, The Daily Rumpus
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That Kind Of Woman: John Steinbeck on Falling in... →
thatkindofwoman:
New York November 10, 1958
Dear Thom: We had your letter this morning. I will answer it from my point of view and of course Elaine will from hers. First — if you are in love — that’s a good thing — that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don’t let anyone make it small or light…
This is the best thing I have ever read.
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“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her...”
– Oscar Wilde (via musingsinfemininity)
December 2011
26 posts
“The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The...”
– DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #64: Tiny Beautiful Things - The Rumpus.net (via leopoldgursky)
Yep.
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“A great Hope fell
You heard no noise
The ruin was within
Oh cunning wreck...”
– Emily Dickinson (via mermaidsinthebasement)
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“Everybody is a contradiction of themselves and not only is that not a problem,...”
– Justin Vernon (via foremmaforeverag0)
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“The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get...”
– John Green (via wordsandlyrics)
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yes is a pleasant country
yes is a pleasant country:
if's wintry
(my lovely)
let's open the year
both is the very weather
(not either)
my treasure,
when violets appear
love is a deeper season
than reason;
my sweet one
(and april's where we're)
e.e. cummings
