Thursday, October 31, 2013
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
tender is the night
"And she wanted for a moment to hold him and devour him, wanted his mouth, his ears, his coat collar, wanted to surround him and engulf him."
-F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
-Photographer: Unknown (x)
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
selected letters
"My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness."
-Virginia Woolf, Selected Letters
-Photo: Unknown (x)
-Virginia Woolf, Selected Letters
-Photo: Unknown (x)
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Monday, August 19, 2013
great expectations
"We changed again, and yet again, it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had solemnly risen now and the world lay spread before me."
-Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
-Photo: Earth and Moon in a single frame, September 18, 1977 (x)
-Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
-Photo: Earth and Moon in a single frame, September 18, 1977 (x)
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
a room of one's own
-A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf
-Photo: Duke of Humphrey's Library, Oxford University, England (x)
Friday, August 9, 2013
greatest power
"In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe."
-A Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
great bursts
"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer."
-The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
-Photo: Colin Leaman (x)
-The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
-Photo: Colin Leaman (x)
Friday, August 2, 2013
when the train came
"Listen, I’m not entirely comfortable being human.
They say laughter is the best medicine
so I wrapped my arms up in swing set chains
just to see if I still have funny bones
I do.
They are aching now
They say laughter is the best medicine
so I wrapped my arms up in swing set chains
just to see if I still have funny bones
I do.
They are aching now
like a foot
lost to a trap.
I’ve paid for these legs with my mother.
As soon as my stalk was long enough, I ran.
And though it is good to be here with you tonight
I’m still running."
lost to a trap.
I’ve paid for these legs with my mother.
As soon as my stalk was long enough, I ran.
And though it is good to be here with you tonight
I’m still running."
- "When the Train Came," Buddy Wakefield
- Painting: "Seated Woman," Egon Schiele, 1913
Thursday, August 1, 2013
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Thursday, March 28, 2013
the five people
"Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it.You're just passing it on to someone else."
-The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom
-Painting: "Mother with Children," Gustav Klimt, 1910 (via)
-The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom
-Painting: "Mother with Children," Gustav Klimt, 1910 (via)
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Monday, March 25, 2013
i am the messenger
"Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are."
-I am the Messenger, Markus Zusak
-Photo: unknown (via)
Sunday, March 24, 2013
the fault in our stars
"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
-The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
-Photo: Henri Roger Viollet, 1883 (via)
-The Fault in Our Stars, John Green
-Photo: Henri Roger Viollet, 1883 (via)
Friday, March 22, 2013
a testament of hope
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only lightness can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
-A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
-Photo: Ben Whishaw in Bright Star, 2009 (Dir. Jane Campion) (via)
-A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
-Photo: Ben Whishaw in Bright Star, 2009 (Dir. Jane Campion) (via)
Thursday, March 21, 2013
the happy prince and other stories
"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
-The Happy Prince and Other Stories, Oscar Wilde
-Photo: unknown (via this side of paradise)
-The Happy Prince and Other Stories, Oscar Wilde
-Photo: unknown (via this side of paradise)
Sunday, February 24, 2013
on the duty of civil disobedience
-On the Duty of Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau
-Photo: "Jingle Dress Dancers Lead #J28 March on Parliament Hill," Paul Seesequasis (via)
Friday, February 22, 2013
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