January 2011
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“For you, a thousand times over.”
– The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini (via thechocolatebrigade)
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Stardust.
“Every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics.
You are all stardust.
You couldn’t be here if stars hadn’t exploded. Because the elements, the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution weren’t...
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“My witness is the empty sky.”
– Jack Kerouac
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“So I smashed a beehive against the ocean
to try and make our splash last...”
– Buddy Wakefield
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Promise me that if you ever catch your breath, you...
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“Goddamn, it felt amazing the days you were happy to see me.”
– Buddy Wakefield
Can I just...
I love all of you. Let’s get married.*
*or we can live together, I’m more than okay with that.
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“Rock out like your dead grandfather just came back to take a drive with you in...”
– Anis Mojgani (via lowsideoftheroad)
I started classes today. This semester is shaping up to be wonderful.
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Lady in Orange
ever since i realized there waz someone callt a colored girl an evil woman a bitch or a nag i been tryin not to be that & leave bitterness in somebody else’s cup
Ntozake Shange in For colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
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My love for this man is out of control. Help me.
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What an amazingly powerful voice. I am going to...
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“It’s the leftover humans.
The survivors.
They’re the ones I can’t stand to look at, although on many occasions I still fail. I deliberately seek out the colors to keep my mind off them, but now and then, I witness the ones who are left behind, crumbling among the jigsaw puzzle of realization, despair, and surprise. They have punctured hearts. They have beaten...
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I clearly remember that my breath was loud that...
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The boy. Liesel was sure her mother carried the memory of him, slung over her shoulder. She dropped him. She saw his feet and legs and body slap the platform. How could that woman walk? How could she move? That’s the sort of thing I’ll never know, or comprehend—what humans are capable of. She picked him up and continued walking, the girl clinging now to her...
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Yes, often, I am reminded of her, and in one of my vast array of pockets, I have kept her story to retell. It is one of the small legion I carry, each one extraordinary in its own right. Each one an attempt—an immense leap of an attempt—to prove to me that you, and your human existence, are worth it.
-The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
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The Information Man-Buddy Wakefield
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dkeene:
Eric Hutchinson is the man.
I’m...
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Please, tell someone you love them today.
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“I am anxiously waiting
For the secret of eternal life to be discovered
And...”
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti (via streetlightimaginations)
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“You gotta love your body because it’s all you got to hold on to....”
– Augustus Hill in Oz
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“I’m sorry all the kisses
I scrawled on your neck were written
in disappearing...”
– Jeffrey McDaniel (via beautylikethenight)
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“I told you your kiss made me feel like Winston Churchill
and you said -...”
– Derrick Brown (via loverofstories)
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“And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those...”
– Kurt Vonnegut in Slaughterhouse Five
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“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman (via wordpainting)
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“Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via liquidnight)
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“The boy who loves you the wrong way keeps weakening.
You thought if you handed...”
– Richard Siken (via loverofstories)
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“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish aboard.”
– Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (via andrewbaggott)
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Lady in Orange
so this is a requiem for myself cuz i have died in a real way not wid aqua coffins & du-wop cadillacs i used to joke abt when i waz messin round but a real dead lovin is here for you now cuz i dont know anymore how to avoid my own face wet wit my tears cuz i had convinced myself colored girls had no right to sorrow & i lived & loved that way & kept sorrow on the curb allegedly for...
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lady in orange
i dont wanna write in english or spanish i wanna sing make you dance like the bata dance scream twitch hips wit me cuz i done forgot all abt words i wanna whirl with you