January 2011
24 posts
“People whose lives are barren and insecure seem to show a greater willingness to...”
– Eric Hoffer
“I wasn’t just the madwoman in the attic — I was the attic itself. The past was...”
– Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
“I ran away. I always did. I got on that bus. I’ve spent so many nights doing...”
– Carl Barat, Three Penny Memoir
“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved...”
– Galileo Galilei
“People keep telling me that I fall in love too easily- that I should protect my...”
– Natalie Anne Erlanson
Anthem of Our Discovery
We talked about things that would make your mind spin But she’s gone, gone like a mystery, gone just like the wind To touch anything real, you could stay up all night and transcend But it always ends up the same in the end A little tired, but she was tired just like me
When the weather’s mood laughs at what the two of us have done She could melt the moon and I could freeze the sun I...
“I never confused what I had with what I was.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
"Mad Girl's Love Song" by Sylvia Plath
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.)
The stars go waltzing out in blue and red, And arbitrary blackness gallops in: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.)
God topples from the...
“The use of innocence in literature is never innocent.”
– Julio Cortazar
“In one moment I was feeling everything and I was feeling nothing.”
– Kami Garcia
“Is there anything, apart from a really good chocolate cream pie and receiving a...”
– Bill Bryson
“If you are kind to your body, it will respond in an incredible way”
– Vanda Scaravelli
