March 2012
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“I sometimes feel like I face a choice: to be talented and tortured or to be...”
– Our Meds, Ourselves | The Eye
February 2012
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“In the outpouring of provincial self-congratulation that greeted the...”
– Frank Rich: Why We Can’t Forget That Gay Marriage’s Liberal Champions Spent Decades on the Wrong Side of the Issue — New York Magazine
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“My head was a condemned church with a ceiling of bats, but I swung from this...”
– Dave Eggers
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How am I supposed to pretend I never want to...
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Day One Hundred and Two
1000daysofwords:
this is a song for a scribbled out name because i still haven’t admitted it to my friends. or my parents. or myself. you’re all fingers on wrists and clean air. that’s what you make me remember: the taste of oxygen, pure and crisp and beautiful. the feel of cold hard stone underneath me in the dead of winter. if j is fall and summer and cigarettes and music, you are winter and...
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“A true Arab knows how to catch a fly in his hands,”
my father would say....”
– Blood by Naomi Shihab Nye
to the girls on my dash that keep wishing for love
cuethefire:
cuethefire:
There’s potential in the gaping spaces that separate each of your fingers, the spaces you keep referring to as the universe because sometimes the gaping spaces are lonely and quiet and mocking of your insignificance the same way the universe is. There’s potential, in the lonely crook of your neck, in the dust collecting across your collarbones, at the curve of your hips,...
“We found each other in the cosmos, and that was wonderful.”
– Ann Druyan, talking about her husband, Carl Sagan (via fleurishes)
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10 points! Cristiano secured the triumph with his...
cr7-kaka:
Real Madrid vs. Levante 4:2
Everybody emotional - me too. H A L A M A D R I D !
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Day One Hundred
1000daysofwords:
The inside of my mouth tastes like yours, or at least the yours that I remember, all nicotine and tar and coffee coffee coffee. And it’s a wonder, really, that you didn’t have the ugliest smile I’d ever seen, that even though you stained them with the addictions neither of us could really stave off, your teeth stayed white and beautiful and pearly, that no matter how many times...
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“Washington state lawmakers voted to approve gay marriage Wednesday, setting the...”
– Washington House Passes Gay Marriage Bill
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“A federal appeals court Tuesday struck down California’s ban on same-sex...”
– Prop. 8: Gay-marriage ban unconstitutional, court rules - latimes.com
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“I’m going to hate you one day. I’m going to despise every fiber of your being....”
– I’m Not Going To Love You Forever (Just FYI) « Thought Catalog
January 2012
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“When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like...”
– Oscar Wilde
You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral
thereisafish:
You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know...
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“You know those blessed days when you wake up feeling high on life… and nothing...”
– What You Have To Do In Order To Be Truly Happy
“The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right...”
– welcome to my continuous love/hate relationship with Catcher in the Rye (via technicoloring)
“I miss everyone. I can remember being young and feeling a thing and identifying...”
– From The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace. (via bookoflead)
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“NOTHING sits still. Even at absolute zero, when the thermal jiggling of matter...”
– First quantum jiggles detected in solid object - physics-math - 28 January 2012 - New Scientist
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“Go party with them”
– Iker Casillas, suggesting the ref to go out with the Barça players (via writingtalesinmadrid)
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“It’s true I insulted the referee after the game. It was in the heat of the...”
– Iker Casillas
“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company,...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via decrepito)
“If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (via atavus)
“When adults say, ‘Teenagers think they are invincible’ with that sly, stupid...”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska (via technicoloring)
“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall...”
– Richard Siken (via venebelle)
“I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love...”
– Voltaire (via blua)
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“Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily...”
– Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
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“Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night