January 2011
I’ll Try Anything Once by The Strokes
I...
file under "secrets writers understand"
It’s startling at first, but quite freeing, to realize that we write the narratives of our lives, and we decide how we will think of things that have happened and things that we’ve done.
We can construct any number of narratives to fit things into, infinite maybe.
So that’s why I think regrets aren’t ever necessary.
We only must choose to write different stories.
ohwowthatslovely-:
The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn’t hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring...
“Everything we do is a choice. Oatmeal or cereal, highways or sidestreets, kiss...”
– Pushing Daisies (via runawaytrain)
“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.”
– The Great Gatsby (via comelylittletree)
can someone be all four?
Guys. this weekend.
it was intense.
Specifically Thursday night. Went out to the bars for the first time. Interesting things ensued.
Laid in bed all day friday.
Went out last night.
Between Thursday & Saturday night, I learned where all the boys are. This town has somewhat of a reputation for being girl-heavy, but downtown is where the boys are. Well kept secret. Saw so many males I know (and...
stopshakingyourhipsatme:
anthems of a seventeen...
“The wind blowing through your hair, the warm sun on your face, the cool ground...”
– Christina Galavizo (via oceanofmind)
“It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate’s so easy compared.”
– Big Sur by Jack Kerouac (via lostinthesounds)
Life is never how you think it will be. It’s taken me a long time to realize that this is okay. Charming even, exciting.
The new J.Crew catalog.
I die.
I saw the spring clothes in-store recently & I knew we were in for good things, but it’s especially gorg.
“Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let...”
– Leonard Cohen
we talked about Leonard Cohen in my Lit. of Montreal class today, and watched a documentary on him from the 60s.
Anyway, this quote really captures what a different, polisci class made me think of. We were talking about Max Weber’s desire for passionate leaders, focused on...
“Your biggest challenge isn’t someone else. It’s the ache in your lungs and the...”
– (via 472239364) (via happythings) (via itookadeepbreath) (via sabrinatan)
“The deepest secret in our heart of hearts is that we are writing because we love...”
– Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones (via thepanicofbirds)
this.
I just found the. coolest. class. ever.
It’s called Scandinavia: Gender & Equality
And I’ve had a mild obsession in the Scandinavian countries lately. And it’s a women & gender studies class with feminist literature. And I’ve heard good things about the prof. And I want to scope her as a possible thesis advisor as she teaches in both English & Women/Gender studies, which I want my thesis to be on.
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