February 2009
oh, monsieur baudeliare
and if sometimes, on the steps of a palace or the green grass of a ditch, in the mournful solitude of your room, you wake again, drunkenness already diminishing or gone, ask the wind, the wave, the star, the bird, the clock, everything that is flying, everything that is groaning, everything that is rolling, everything that is singing, everything that is speaking…ask what time it is and wind, wave,...
fragile things by neil gaiman
As I write this now, it occurs to me that the peculiarity of most things we think of as fragile is how tough they truly are. There were tricks we did with eggs, as children, to show how they were, in reality, tiny load-bearing marble halls; while the beat of the wings of a butterfly in the right place, we are told, can create a hurricane across an ocean. Hearts may break, but hearts are the...
kidnap someone and make them happy. pick someone at random and convince them they are the heir to an enormous, useless and amazing fortune – say 5000 square miles of antarctica, or an aging circus elephant, or an orphanage in bombay… later they will come to realize that for a few moments they believed in something extraordinary and will perhaps be driven as a result to seek out some more intense...
sometimes a cup of black tea and a block of dark...
i thought, it’s a shame that we have to live, but it’s a tragedy...
– jonathan safran foer, extremely loud and incredibly close
civil disobedience, that’s not our problem. our problem is that people are...
– howard zinn
it’s those moments when you drive around in a car full of friends around a town...
– steve (via wishfulthinkingg) (via hautelikecouture) (via crazybeautiful) (via tuesdayslove)
full
of solid notions
that keep turning into objects:
this simple sadness...
– olena katyliak davis
after that day when i saw the elephant, i let myself see more and believe more. ...
– nicole krauss, the history of love
holy shit this is freaky
Name: rachel Date: 2/18/2009 Colorgenics Number: 50421736
You are longing for a little love and tenderness. At present you are feeling very sensitive and need a sympathetic shoulder to lean on. You don’t need any further stresses, strains or arguments so take a deep breath and relax.
In the past there have been - and maybe there still are - many things that you have had to do without. You...
161. EVERY SO OFTEN YOU SHOULD USE UP ONE OF YOUR...
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