March 2012
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“Dont read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your...”
– Louise Erdich
Until recently, I always thought that if I wasn’t collapsing into bed exhausted each night, I wasn’t working hard enough. I’ve maintained good grades in school, while working full time, and at any given time, three jobs. This has been tolerable, even okay most times. Until this semester.
This semester is kicking my ass, physically and emotionally and mentally. I come home...
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“One day you’ll wake up knowing that somehow, your stories will make it to the...”
– Cityography tumblr. This girl writes all the words I’ve ever wanted to find.
February 2012
118 posts
“There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.”
– ― Louise Erdrich, Tales of Burning Love
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t...”
– ― Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum
“Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank...”
– Neil Gaiman, who also has a tumblr. A thousand thanks to B, for this truly made my day yesterday to read.
“Summer is over and
we part, like eyelids,
like clams opening.”
–
Robert Hass, “Basho: A Departure”
(via the-final-sentence)
“I believed in starting over. There was finally only rupture and hurt and falling...”
– Lorrie Moore, Anagrams.
A small gathering of miracles.
(via aladyinchicago)
Highlight of my week life: being asked to stay with friends at a vacation home in St. Croix for spring break.
“Then the music takes us, the music rolls away the years, and we dance.”
– Stephen King, 11.22.63 (thank you, jonscofer)
“You have to pick the places you don’t walk away from.”
– Joan Didion (via poetbabble)
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I turn 25 in exactly one month from today. I am suddenly having a quarter life crisis.
clairaudient:
Paper Route-Second Chances
Maybe...
“[Tatie was dead. There was nothing Paul could possibly do for me except let me...”
– Paula McLain, The Paris Wife (thank you, pinkcloudpaper)
“Be in love with your life. Every detail of it.”
– Jack Kerouac (via lisawiseman)
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