January 2012
Jan 1st
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December 2011
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2011 was terrifying, hopeful, agonizing, impatient, pessimistic, brave, loving, bored, long, not long enough, angry, melancholy, rude, unfair, sweet, ugly, soft, beautiful, quiet, loud, enigmatic, tangible, sympathetic, forgiving, lonely, challenging, overindulgent, infuriating, turbulent, passionate, calm, joyful, greedy, zealous and absolutely unforgettable. It was in equal parts full of...
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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“I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because...”
– Augusten Burroughs, Running With Scissors
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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“Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.”
– Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
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“I want to travel on a train that smells like snowflakes. I want to sip in cafes...”
– Tom Robbins
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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“She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her...”
– Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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“And she understood as I did that when you sat down and put your hands on the...”
– Homer and Langley, E. L. Doctorow (via clavicola)
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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“Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.”
– Anais Nin
Dec 29th
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Dec 29th
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“Every morning you wait, clothes, over a chair, to fill yourself with my...”
– Pablo Neruda (via philphys)
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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No matter what anyone says, words are worse than sticks or stones because you can’t pull them out. You can’t forget, and there’s nothing in the world that can soften the heat of syllables and consonants and vowels wreaking havoc beneath the pillows of your lungs or the curves of your heart. Words leave the invisible scars, the ones that litter the backs of your eyelids, the soft...
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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“I am vertical But I would rather be horizontal. I am not a tree with my root...”
– Sylvia Plath, I Am Vertical
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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“I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color...”
– Charles Bukowski (via mourningspirit)
Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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“So much of the city is our bodies. Places in us old light still slants...”
– Anne Michaels, Phantom Limbs
Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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“I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you’ll dream dangerously and...”
– Neil Gaiman
Dec 27th
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Dec 27th
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Dec 26th
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“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
– Maya Angelou
Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 25th
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my general mood today:  give me pizza or give me death
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 23rd
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things that will always be beautiful: poetry the Milky Way galaxy how rain sounds against glass how sure the word Mother is the moon orange peels love— heaps of it Franz Liszt’s Nocturne #3 how many synonyms there are for ‘beautiful’ the color blueberries stain your fingers with
Dec 23rd
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“I will love you if I never see you again, and I will love you if I see you every...”
– Lemony Snicket (via kimmyicecream)
Dec 23rd
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Dec 23rd
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