January 2011
153 posts
You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late,...
– Jane Austen, Persuasion
I sang to you and the moon
But only the moon remembers.
I sang
O reckless...
– Carl Sandburg
Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.
– Oscar Wilde
December 2010
96 posts
Perhaps we don’t like what we see: our hips, our loss of hair, our shoe size,...
– Sufjan Stevens
Any great work of art… revives and readapts time and space, and the...
– Leonard Bernstein, What Makes Opera Grand?
What can I compare you to?
…maybe my bright red boots, if they had wings.
Do not resent your place in this story. Do not imagine yourself elsewhere. Do...
– N.D. Wilson, Notes from the Tilt-a-Whirl
La vie est belle! La vie est rosée! La vie est coeur-chauffant! La vie est déchirante… Mais la vie est signifiée être vécu! Alors, etre intrépide! :)
By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to...
– Virginia Woolf
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means...
– William Faulkner
I’m not a bit changed—not really. I’m only just pruned down...
– Anne of Green Gables
oversized sweater? check.
tangerine sencha tea? check.
great gatsby? check.
argyle socks? check.
oh yes.
“The LORD your God is with you, He is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.” - Zeph. 3:17
He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald // The Great Gatsby
When the doctor took her bandages off and led her into the garden, the girl who...
– Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but...
– Diane Ackerman.