December 2011
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wax and your milk teeth.
autumnfires:
The car hummed along with the radio, loud and distorted before you pulled up beside the sidewalk and the humming quieted down into a whisper. The kind of whisper that drags out slowly like cigarette smoke between our lips, exhaling against our ears before dissipating into nicotine debris. The kind of whisper we wanted to hear because we knew it wouldn’t last very long. You said...
November 2011
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“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the...”
– Mark Twain
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“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where...”
– Leo Tolstoy (via larmoyante)
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“I’ll be a star cloud because that’s what your presence reduces me to. A mass of...”
– Stephanie Georgopulos (via constrictions)
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Reading things that are so good I have to go back and read them again, then a third time, a fourth, until I’ve memorized the whole thing completely, murmuring bits of it to my reflection aloud, rolling the vowels and syllables in my mouth like toffee, breaking apart the sentences word by word and wondering how anyone’s brain could be so beautiful while I hold the paragraphs and run-ons...
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“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that’s beautiful.”
– Milan Kundera
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“He says that humans are made from the nuclear ash of dead stars. He says that...”
– Jenny Downham, Before I Die
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“You are covered by land, a lithosphere, a continent sprinkled with snow. I watch...”
– Jane Murray (via xeusm)
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“By the time you swear you’re his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his...”
– Dorothy Parker (via quote-book)
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setbabiesonfire:
A girl I work with thinks the first president’s name was George Washington Bush and after him was Abe Lincoln and he freed us from the British in 1914, but Colombus didn’t discover the US until 1942, and September 11th was what started World War II when our government set up the plane crashes (allegedy, by her logic).. But if Lincoln was president in 1914… And America joined...
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“It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate...”
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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“Contiguous, adj.
“When I was a kid, I had this puzzle with all fifty states on...”
– David Levithan, A Lover’s Dictionary
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It will never cease to amaze me that people can’t have an opinion on this website.
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“Being in love
means hard questions.
Will I? Won’t I?
Should I? Could I?...”
– Ellen Hopkins
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