February 2012
“All you can do is hope for a pattern to emerge, and sometimes it never does....”
– Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk (via lostinthesounds)
Today is for baking cookie brownies, making jello, doing laundry, perfecting my portfolio, and getting ahead. Today is a good day. I am blessed.
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Today I can’t decide which I love more—the depth of his dimples when his smile is at its widest, or the way it feels to be the only audience to the floating flecks of gray and green in his ocean-blue eyes.
“Wisdom is knowing what you don’t know.”
– Socrates (via aestheticalii)
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This week we celebrated my “birthday week,” despite the fact that I have never ever been the girl who gets excited about such things. However, Ryan is a romantic through and through, and I felt as though I would be doing my love a terrible disservice were I not to go along with it and write this week into our history. That being said, I woke up each morning to a sweet letter, fresh...
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“A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered...”
– Gandhi
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I made a b-line for the coffee pot, praying all the while that caffeine would kindly serve as my saving grace so that I wouldn’t have to bother God again.
“To write is to engage in a difficult relationship with our own language.”
– Roland Barthes from Criticism and Truth (1966)
“Live for awhile in the books you love. Learn from them what is worth learning,...”
– Rilke, Viareggio, April 5, 1903, Letters to a Young Poet (via uponswallows
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“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else...”
– Ambrose Redmoon
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“If there’s one thing every kid needs growing up, it’s a best friend. Someone you...”
– The Wonder Years
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“For proof that he loved me as much as he had always said, I needed only to look at my goddamn chest. In a fit of anger I yanked at my shirt and abruptly reached the three deeply red, immensely tender lines above my left breast, the lines that meant ours was a true love, a passionate love, that I belonged to him. I was forced to rip the top over my head in order to protect it from the...
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No one is perfect. Happiness will find you once you realize this, but no sooner. Until you are able to recognize that striving to be this or that which falls outside the boundaries of who and what you truly are is entirely pointless and hopelessly wasteful of your talents as determined by God, you will forever find yourself unsatisfied and inconsolable. Take my advice, set down the magazine,...
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Being in love, in a word, is beautiful. Being in love, in several words, is knowing that there is a soul that shines brighter because of you, feeling strengthened and empowered by a set of bones and muscles that live to help, hold, support, and push you, trusting that the flesh you so often touch, kiss, bite, caress, and marvel at will stay true and pure in your absence, and offering all of...
Where does time go to die? Does it nestle in the cracks of a broken heart, cling to the wings of planes that left before their gates were reached, or drown in the rivers and lakes separating lovers? Where does time go to die?
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave...”
– Anatole France (via vineetkaur)
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“Falling in love is like being struck by lightning. You can no more make it...”
– Anonymous
“Happiness, not in another place but this place…not for another hour, but this...”
– Walt Whitman (via misswallflower)