February 2012
Take time to be yourself.
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“Life, he realized, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in...”
– Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song (via xzxcuzx-me)
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I wake up next to you and cannot clear the fog in my mind forcefully enough to recall how I ended up here, though I don’t object to my current state of affairs in the least. I attempt to move and your grip on me instinctively tightens, which brings my attention to the way your strong, tense arms are still curved under the backs of my knees and beneath my fragile neck. In a flood of awareness I...
“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the...”
– C.S. Lewis (via tsoonami)
I found this quote a few days ago and am using it as part of my graduation address. How ironic, how divine.
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I caved. Pinterest, here I come.
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The space heater you turned on when you left is spinning strands of warm air around this frozen body, but the web is nowhere near as strong as we had hoped. Whisper-thin hairs are soldiers atop goose-pimpled flesh. You, I’m sure, are elbows propped on an abused piece of wood somewhere in the frigid depths of years of neglect. You, I’m sure, are thoughts that revolve less around restoring...
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“Curvy women are real women. Skinny women are real women. Women who have had boob...”
– Hugo Schwyzer (via amorepeacefulvendetta)
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“I know it feels like you have all these options and when you make a decision,...”
– Janet Finch
“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for...”
– Gloria Naylor (via losinghead)
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Maintaining composure was the name of the game and I was its reigning champion.
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“I disconnect the telephone to keep the outside world in it’s correct place.”
– Tell-All, Chuck Palahniuk (via darlingletssleep)
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Why do I love him? He wakes me with the sunrise, with a buttercream kiss, with a breakfast invitation whispered into the ear that hasn’t been buried in his pillow for the better part of his night shift. We live our lives this way, letting passion shade not only our conversations, but also the seemingly inconsequential moments in which we brush past one another in our quaint kitchen. Still,...
“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
