February 2012
3 posts
“I confess
I love that
which caresses
me.”
– Sappho
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“I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me...”
– J. D. Salinger
January 2012
5 posts
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“ & I slept, having prayed, ‘God forgive all the sins uncommitted in my...”
– the bitter morning after a sinless night / david van dusen (via karileighrosenfeld)
“The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.”
– Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (via poete)
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“Oh God it’s wonderful
to get out of bed
and drink too much coffee
and smoke...”
– Frank O’Hara, Steps (via atomiccherrybomb)
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December 2011
36 posts
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“What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a...”
– Gustave Flaubert (via whiskey river)
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“All of this is typical girl-fear. Once you realize that The Exorcist is,...”
– Rookie, The Season of the Witch (via newanddifferentsun)
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a...”
– Robert Frost (via atomiclanterns)
“whoever gives nothing has nothing. the greatest misfortune is not to be unloved,...”
– albert camus, notebooks 1951-1959 (via wine-loving-vagabond)
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“If you have yet to be called an incorrigable, defiant woman,
don’t worry, there...”
– Clarissa Pinkola Estés (via purveyor-of-fine-whines)
ahuntersheart:
“As It Turns Out” by Barbara Köhler
I’ve no say in it everything’s ready-said for me I like turns of phrase that transform fixed sentences between walls spaced out into unruly spaces a place not known: the unknown a woman an ‘I’ a voice given to speech a resounding body taken at its word grows hands that are mine to take hold of an incantation & when I stand by this word it...
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“She stubs out her cigarette in the ashtray, then settles herself against him,...”
– Margaret Atwood, from The Blind Assassin (via aubade)
November 2011
35 posts
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“Scott was a man then who looked like a boy with a face between handsome and...”
– Ernest Hemingway on F. Scott Fitzgerald (via worldhanging)
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