January 2009
“Our president’s approval rating is somewhere between pictures of baby pandas on...”
– Rachel Maddow
1000 novels everyone must read: the definitive... →
The ones I read:
Bridget Jones’ Diary - Helen Fielding
Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
High Fidelity - Nick Hornby
The Hound of the Baskervilles - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Outsider - Albert Camus
The Awakening - Kate Chopin
The Gathering - Anne Enright
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s...
Whip Quip
deus ex diana: i have all of this frosting and nothing to put it on
tabwootwo: that's not true, you always have your nipples
tabwootwo: i'm sure someone would come running.
hey guys, danielle has a tumblr now
“And so it is with happiness. When the talk of genetics and communal bonds and...”
– Eric Weiner (via scout)
I’ve come to believe in this above all other things.
“When I opened the door I noticed 2 things: one, someone had made cookies, and...”
– One Sentence Stories (via voffvoff)
Thomas Jefferson's Inaugural Address
“…this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. Let us, then, fellow-citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without...
“There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with...”
– Bill Clinton, inaugural address
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or to lose.”
– Lyndon B. Johnson inaugural address, Nov. 28 1963, six days after being sworn into office following the assassination of John F. Kennedy
proprioception
knowing where you are in the world, where your body stops and everything else begins.
see also: je t’aime jusqu’au bout. to love someone all the way to the ends of their fingers and tips of their ears (etc)
“While I was away it seemed another world, not this one where your breath charms the air I breathe in sleep. I was gone too long; let’s embrace regret, and love the world. I brought you a story - in the city, there were yellow leaves in a whirlwind that followed me down a cobbled street.”
- Gary Young
“Sorry about the bony elbows, sorry we lived here, sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud. Especially that, but I should have known. You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.
— Richard Siken
