February 2011
“Added to their loveliness was a new mysterious suffering, perfectly silent,...”
– The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (via thechocolatebrigade)
“The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day...”
– Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice)
January 2011
libraryland:
lineone:
“When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he’d reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before. Like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world.”
The Road - Cormac McCarthy.
Such a beautiful, heartbreakingly bleak book.
“Now listen, life is lovely, but I Can’t Live It. I can’t even explain. I know...”
– — Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters (via bunnymitford) (via awritersruminations, bunnymitford) (via libraryland)
“Be obscure clearly.”
– E.B. White (via libraryland)
White Coat: Stuff I'm Learning: Horner's Syndrome →
white-coat:
Horner’s Syndrome is a result of the interruption of your sympathetic nervous system. It could be a lesion of the nerve, a tumor pressing on it, etc. Whatever the cause, the connection between the brain and the target system isn’t functioning. What does it look like?
There’s a classic triad…
Wild Plums: F*ck Valentines →
wildplums:
Oh it’s that smug month of the year February! Before you say “Well Miss Plum you just hate it because you’re not with anyone”. On the contrary if I was with someone I would not be cruel enough to subject them to the money-making scheme that is Valentines day. When your loved ones haven’t…
7076.) I’m a bitch.
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“Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside them, and it’s much...”
– Neil Gaiman (via undreamedshorelines)
6989.) You are wonderful. I hope you know that.
Sometimes things don't need to be said to be...
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I always start posts with, "It's been a while..."
And that’s pretty much the truth. It has been a while since I’ve written or posted anything truly mine and it’s going to be brutal. It’s going to be honest and you’re probably going to think I’m a bitch at the end. But I need to vent, I don’t have anyone in my life that wants to hear my venting and I seldom vent. So here I go.
There’s this...
“The hotness is not about age, looks, body type, race - it is about honesty,...”
– Margaret Cho (via pansexualpride)
