February 2012
5 posts
distances:
You know what really sucks? Good dreams. Ones that are better than reality, ones that you wish were reality, ones that feel so realistic, until you believe what’s happening in the dream is what’s really going on in your life at the moment. Then you wake up and it’s not true and it really really really sucks because for those few minutes or hours, your heart just swelled with joy.
i could do it. right now, i could submit an application for a deferral, or just a withdrawal, and buy a plane ticket with my savings, and fly over the ocean. breathe fresh air that i’ve never felt before. feel completely alien in a new country. forget everything and everyone. do whatever i want and never come back.
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“on sumptuous white bearskins lies a slender woman, her lips half open, with bluish rings beneath her tired, eager eyes, and dreams and dreams of unfettered revelry, drunken wildness, a whipped-up delirium of ecstasy the deadened, faded nerves of one last, unknown happiness of a pleasure that is the highest of all pleasures and yet is not called love and dreams and dreams.” –...
ifyoucarryonthisway:
i wish someone would love me as much as kanye west loves kanye west
January 2012
5 posts
thepinesaredancing:
I just saw a pretty girl at the coffee shop that I’m reading at and I kept looking at her kind of maybe hoping that she might look at me too and then I’d look away and we could go like that for a minute or something and then she got her coffee (to go so then my plan of maybe walking by or something was foiled) and as she was walking out she smiled at me and in my head I...
“When we’re incomplete, we’re always searching for somebody to complete us. When,...”
– Tom Robbins (via slekes)
you ought to be proud that i’m getting good marks
“I’ve been trying to figure out who I am. I can tell you that when I stare at a...”
– Unknown (via slekes)
2011 was fucking weird
December 2011
9 posts
“She was trying not to think of the immediate future, or of the past, and she...”
– Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach (via true-grit)
my website is still up if you want to wait a... →
i drew a map of europe to study from. turkey doesn’t exist and the black sea is part of the mediterranean. oh and the danube and the elbe rivers are one, apparently. what have i done. (also italy is really fat.)
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wowreallyyeahreallyy:
i am meant to live alone
amen, sister.
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just tried to use “wisdomical” in my essay. glad i caught that one before it went too far
the best stories are the ones that no one else can tell
“nothing is faster than the speed of thought. i can look at anything and think of...”
– i wrote this for you
November 2011
15 posts
let’s do it (let’s fall in love) by...
slekes:
My boyfriend does this adorable thing where he doesn’t exist
campus is absurdly beautiful in the snow
“I don’t suppose I really know you very well - but I know you smell like the...”
– Zelda Fitzgerald, in a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (via hospitalbombers)
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what is this bullshit of casting spells that can only be broken by “true love” that shit is broken so easily in every fucking movie that there ever was and everyone always acts so goddamn surprised like oh, they didn’t pick the prettiest bitch in all the land and how do people even fall in love in these movies anyway they’re either asleep half the time or can’t...
caleb landry jones, ladies and gents. a genius.
“I don’t know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned...”
– Maya Angelou (via slekes)
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justice
black lipstick
raybans
my brother’s christmas list is getting a wee bit ridiculous.
exhibit a: shoes from a company that does not ship to canada and does not have any retail sellers in ottawa
exhibit b: a bear
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“you must understand that our civilization is so vast that we can’t have...”
– fahrenheit 451 by ray bradbury
October 2011
7 posts
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brother by matt corby
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“this is strange and hard to grasp. that you can know a person but not all of...”
likelava:
i don’t want to talk about it i don’t want to talk about it i don’t want to talk about it i don’t want to talk about it i don’t want to talk about it i don’t want to talk about it i don’t want to talk about it i don’t want to talk about it i don’t want to talk about it i don’t want to talk about it
“My one regret in life is that I’m not someone else.”
– Woody Allen (via gaws)
“i don’t want a full house at the winter garden theatre. i want ninety people who...”
– tootsie
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“In speaking of this desire for our own faroff country, which we find in...”
– C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory (via theohpioneer)
everything is so depressing right now
September 2011
14 posts
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“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via floreses)
occupy wall street
One day, a trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Adam Sarzen, a decade or so older than many of the protesters, came to Zuccotti Park seemingly just to shake his head. “Look at these kids, sitting here with their Apple computers,” he said. “Apple, one of the biggest monopolies in the world. It trades at $400 a share. Do they even know that?”
- nytimes
this whole situation is...
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Great Gatsby Video Game →
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“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does...”
– Maya Angelou (via mrsfeisty)
up from below by edward sharpe and the magnetic...
“I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn’t have...”
– Charles Bukowski (via thechocolatebrigade) (via dejadejavuvu)
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