April 2010
32 posts
“Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person,...”
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (via ransombookquotes) (via twentythreebooksasummer) (via booklover) (via spectra) (via opalinefeather) (via unicornology) (via leforettt)
“It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it...”
– Libba Bray (via thresca) (via lovebot)
“It was like sawdust, the unhappiness; it infiltrated everything, everything was...”
– The Dead Girl by Melanie Thernstrom (via newyorkish) (via shechasespavements)
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“When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed...”
– David Foster Wallace, “A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life” (via drinkyourjuice)
“I’m thinking that sometimes you just have to make the decision to be happy. Just...”
– Away from Her (via getyourjacketon)
“…realizing that faced with the large questions of life and not finding large...”
– Anagrams, Lorrie Moore (via itistime)
wrists:
a year goes by, and i can’t talk about it.
Phrases that would mean more to me than a generic:...
anattemptatdecency:
wamiv:
I want to buy furniture with you
Your family really isn’t that bad
I made you chocolate pudding
I knew you were having a bad day, so I cleaned the dog shit up off the floor so you wouldn’t have to
I understand that you need “your space” when we’re sleeping
We’re going in a hot air balloon tomorrow
“Just for future reference, don’t use words like “love” anymore. It’s a very...”
– ~Peter Craig; Hot Plastic (via amourtendre)
“love won’t play any games with you / anymore if you don’t want it to”
– “New York New York”, Ryan Adams
“Today’s generation faces all this and says,”I don’t want to spend my life the...”
– Saul Alinsky (via fuckyeahradicalquotes) (via jjarichardson) (via lastchatwithphontaine) (via rememo) (via dactylographie) (via skinandwhiskey) (via cigarettesonfire) (via smallpaw) (via lapetitemort)
The Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 137... →
ljm:
Reminder to myself to finish reading this.
i love her. adore her.
Alec Baldwin Buys Massapequa Bookmobile →
52books:
A few weeks ago, the Massapequa Library Bookmobile, which was taken off the road last summer after 48 years of service, was towed away to Alec Baldwin’s Amagansett property. Mr. Baldwin, who grew up in Massapequa and whose father taught at the local high school, paid $1,000 for the forsaken vehicle, the library’s director, Patricia Page, told the Transom.
“We were thinking of scrapping...
