February 2012
Words to keep inside your pocket:
Quiescent - a quiet, soft-spoken soul.
Chimerical - merely imaginary; fanciful.
Susurrus - a whispering or rustling sound.
Raconteur - one who excels in story-telling.
Clinquant - glittering; tinsel-like.
Aubade - a song greeting the dawn.
Ephemeral - lasting a very short time.
Sempiternal - everlasting; eternal.
Euphonious - pleasing; sweet in...
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“For indeed my life is a perpetual question mark – my thirst for books, my...”
– Anaïs Nin (via troubled)
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The difference between spirituality and religiousness is beyond magnificent.
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A letter to my unknown husband:
I want to marry young. I hope to live in a cramped apartment that forces us to take walks outside and go see lots of films. I need this other part of me that looms over my thoughts like some forgotten birthday. I must find you, because you’ll know how I like to spend hours alone, writing, and how I won’t let you see anything I’ve done until...
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and...”
– Michelangelo (via corona-borealis)
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“I’ve got my laptop, but it troubles me in many ways. I don’t have Twitter or...”
– Laura Marling (via carpe-aevitas)
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“He knew enough of the world to know that there is nothing in it better than the...”
– A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Sometimes I am absolutely positive I am the only being left who believes in a glimmer of hope. It is a lonely thought.
I think I’d be more inclined to watch Y Tú Mama Tambien if it didn’t open with a sleazy sex scene that makes the point of subtitles moot.
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“The important thing is this: to be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are...”
– Charles Dickens (via katelizabeth)
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“If you take a book with you on a journey, an odd thing happens: the book begins...”
– Cornelia Funke (Inkheart)
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“In the end, remember that Neoland is nothing but a collection of pixels and...”
– the woes of an ex-neopets user (via spinals)
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Origins by Tennis
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I just got into the University of Texas at Austin! AND the radio-television-film major. I might pass out forever.
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“People assume that if God were to talk directly with you, God would not sound...”
– Meditations from Conversations with God
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“I think people expect too much from marriage today,” he said. “They expect...”
– Mitch Albom (via troubled)
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Amor Fati by Washed Out
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“To think of gratitude and to think of thank you cards
instead, the small panic...”
– “Gratitude,” Leigh Stein (via clavicola)
It is strange and wonderful all at the same how my perception of beauty has changed.
Made my friends delicious red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting from scrap. I don’t think it’s possible to feel lonely with a cupcake in hand.
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I just bought
this
and this
But now I also want
these
It’s a wonder I have any money left in my account.
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Stay Gold by The Big Pink
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“A species in which everyone was General Patton would not succeed, any more than...”
– Allen Shawn
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“(31)
I’m so mad
I could bite
The mountaintops”
– Book of Haikus, Jack Kerouac
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You are the only person you truly know, so please love yourself.
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