July 2011
66 posts
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Going, going, and gone? I think not. →
william-elms:
The Oxford comma is safe!
“‘I mean talk about decadence,’ he declared, ‘how decadent can a society get?...”
– Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road (via cementandaluminum)
June 2011
72 posts
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: First Poem For You →
oofpoetry:
I like to touch your tattoos in complete darkness, when I can’t see them. I’m sure of where they are, know by heart the neat lines of lightning pulsing just above your nipple, can find, as if by instinct, the blue swirls of water on your shoulder where a serpent twists, facing a dragon. When I…
“I used an arrow to kill the spider.
I used a steamroller to flatten the worm....”
– Kim Addonizio, Weaponry (via grammatolatry)
“‘I wish I could love,’ cried Dorian Gray, with a deep note of pathos in his...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (@theoldlie)
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“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
– William Shakespeare (via misspcgenius)
“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps...”
– Ayn Rand (via thechocolatebrigade)
“Words, words, words.”
– Prince Hamlet, Hamlet (via shakespearequoteaday)
“I live in two worlds. One is a world of books. I’ve been a resident of...”
– Rory Gilmore - “The Gilmore Girls” (via bookshavepores)
Beach Library
1001bookstoreadbeforeyoudie:
“Until you can ignore your circumstances, and just do as you promise,” he says,...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted. (via fuckyeschuckpalahniuk)
Your eyes show the strength of your soul.
seruhndipiteee:
- The Alchemist
“‘If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time,...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (via fivefootshelf)
“You’re on Earth. There’s no cure for that.”
– Samuel Beckett (via libraryland)
“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m...”
– Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower (via libraryland)
“No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.”
– Robert Frost (via lifeofliterature)
“The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles...”
– Robert Frost (via thatguyles)
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“By telling stories, you objectify your own experience. You separate it from...”
– Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried (via the-gooner)
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