July 2012
“…a stirring warmth flowed from her as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.”
—Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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There’s a boss who draws the gun
White balloon, the setting sun
No, I can’t roll ‘cause Im too lonely
Oh my God, why won’t you hold me
“When you’ve nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them.”
—The Road by Cormac McCarthy (via lauranickel)
“I think about all this sometimes when I’m watching a football game… I look at the field, and I think about the boy who just made the touchdown. I think that these are the glory days for that boy, and this moment will just be another story someday because all the people who make touchdowns and home runs will become somebody’s dad. And when his children look at his yearbook photograph, they will think that their dad was rugged and handsome and looked a lot happier than they are.
I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.” —Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.” —Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
—Franz Kafka (via theunquotables)
“Finally he returned and found the canal he’d sailed. He walked a time along the canal, dumbstruck by its clarity and the color possible here. Amid the dust and the buildings that might never be, and the sand forever trying to overtake it all, there was this immaculate thread of turquoise, an irrational color, an unnecessary color. People had not made the color, but they had helped it to occur here. They had built something and the water had flowed and so people had brought bewildering beauty into a place in which it did not belong.”
—Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King
“I’m scared to be an uncertainty,
I regret that I am not fire.” —Alexander Vvedensky (trans. Matvei Yankelevich), from “Rug/Hydrangea” (via the-final-sentence)
I regret that I am not fire.” —Alexander Vvedensky (trans. Matvei Yankelevich), from “Rug/Hydrangea” (via the-final-sentence)
“An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone’s hand.”
—The History of Love, Nicole Krauss (via wildthicket)
“The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.”
—Annie Dillard…
Black Women’s Transitions to Natural Hair →
nytimes.com
beautiful!
A video on black women’s decision to embrace their naturally kinky hair, rather than use chemical straighteners.
This is such a great video
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.”
—Scott F. Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via gaws)
