May 2011
26 posts
“Life isn’t happily ever after and golden sunsets and shit like that. It’s work. The person you love is rarely worthy of how big your love is. Because no one is worthy of that and maybe no one deserves the burden of it, either. You’ll be let down. You’ll be disappointed and have your trust broken and have a lot of real sucky days. You lose more than you win. You hate the person you love as much as you love him. But, shit, you roll up your sleeves and work - at everything -because that’s what growing older is.”
—Dennis Lehane (via atomos)
“I cannot count the times I have cursed our lack of urgency. If I ever love again, I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.”
—Dave Eggers, What is the What (via lindsaykap)
“I want to go soon and live by the pond, where I shall hear only the wind whispering among the reeds. It will be success if I shall have left myself behind. But my friends ask what I will do when I get there. Will it not be employment enough to watch the progress of the seasons?”
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Thoreau, Journal (via fuckyeahthoreau)
can I just “watch the progress of the seasons” as a full time job? sounds good to me :)
“The future is scary, but you can’t just run back to the past because it’s familiar.”
—Robin Scherbatsky, How I Met Your Mother (via creatingaquietmind)
“To disguise nothing, to conceal nothing, to write about those things that are closest to our pain, our happiness; to write about our sexual clumsiness, the agonies of Tantalus, the depth of our discouragement—what we glimpse in our dreams—our despair. To write about the foolish agonies of anxiety, the refreshment of our strength when these are ended; to write about our painful search for self, jeopardized by a stranger in the post office, a half-seen face in a train window, to write about the continents and populations of our dreams, about love and death, good and evil, the end of the world.”
—from The Journals of John Cheever (via extremeyouth)
I feel like such a bad ass when people ask me to write recs for them.
abortion stats →
feministing.com
There are just so many misconceptions about abortion and the demographics of those involved, and I thought this was an eye-opening piece.
sometimes I forget how weird I am…then I send a text like this one and remember:
“Can we get drunk and talk about cloning soon? I was just helping a kid write his science paper and now my mind is full of alternate realities”
who am I?
“Wake up, America. The real threat to the United States’s continued superpower status isn’t from an arsenal of weapons—it’s from the lack of an arsenal of the mind.”
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Play Power: How to Turn Around Our Creativity Crisis – an excellent read by Lara Seargeant Richardson in The Atlantic (via curiositycounts)
BAM.
“What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do.”
“How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to far around. Don’ let anybody tell you different.”
“…but a joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.”
“The point is: Rules only take us so far, even good rules.”
-From A Man Without A Country by Kurt Vonnegut
