February 2012
6 posts
“I’ve ghostwritten a personal ad for you to give to your Valentine or...”
– http://freewillastrology.com/horoscopes/gemini.html
January 2012
3 posts
“I am not alone. Whatever else there was or is, writing is with me.”
– Lidia Yuknavitch, from The Chronology of Water
November 2011
8 posts
“Assumptions are the death of a relationship. If you think you know what’s going...”
– Tonya Hurley (via venebelle)
Gentle Failures
These gentle failures do not work the way we’d hoped. What we try to say we cannot say and so we wrap it in a napkin, disguising it as garbage, carry it around as if we’re looking for a can but never throw it out. How strange the tawdry treasures that end up stashed away in keepsake, kept in the dark, kept in the face of the fact that we’d rather not remember when and where we fell short,...
“Just imagine living in a world without mirrors. You’d dream about your...”
– Milan Kundera
“I don’t think that I’ve been in love as such, Although I liked a few folk pretty...”
– Sonnet, Neil Gaiman (via neilgaiman)
October 2011
7 posts
“I like flaws and feel more comfortable around people who have them. I myself am...”
– Augusten Burroughs, Magical Thinking (via room42)
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t...”
– Louise Erdrich (via venebelle)
3 tags
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did...”
– Steve Jobs (via justintimothy)
2 tags
September 2011
5 posts
4 tags
“Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a...”
– Anne of the Island, L.M. Montgomery (via jadeizm)
Chrysalis
when i get into bed at night, i literally crawl knees up on the bed, arms splayed, searching for the best spot to flop down i scrunch myself into a ball, keeping myself warm rock a little bit to find the mattress’ sweet spot experiement with arm under the pillow; arm out in front of me, side-sleeper all the way accomodating for my teddy bear – at 30, i am fully aware of the issues that suggests...
3 tags
“There’s a reason that you can learn from everything: you have basic wisdom,...”
August 2011
3 posts
July 2011
24 posts
“Writing is 90 percent procrastination: reading magazines, eating cereal out of...”
– http://www.advicetowriters.com
“We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Diary (via wordsfrombooks)
“We’re all struggling with something. We’re all working to let go of something....”
– http://tinybuddha.com/quotes/tiny-wisdom-why-were-not-honest-with-friends/
“Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our...”
– http://www.advicetowriters.com
“Books can be possessive, can’t they? You’re walking around in a bookstore and a...”
– Sarah Addison Allen (The Sugar Queen) (via endofmarch) (via flourhoneyandmilk) (via somnusandsomnia) (via bigmouthedwoman)
Also, can I just say, if you haven’t read Sarah Addison Allen, you should. Yes, all of you.
(via elizaevans)
