July 2011
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The average color of the New York City sky,... →
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“I think if I were to blink as you do when you want to forget the clutter of...”
– Philippe Jaccottet (via harpy)
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June 2011
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“Even if the rape victim is a 15-year-old girl raped again and again on her own...”
– Amanda Hess
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and none of it matters. Not how you loved it, not how you knelt in each dark December plot to part the rich plait, reached through the wither of winter to find something born of the decay of all that was young once, something still growing and green.
―from “Perennial” by Rebecca Foust (via ahuntersheart)
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“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has...”
– Maya Angelou (via quotewhore)
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“This is what TvTropes would call the Smurfette Principle: For any series not...”
– http://pervocracy.blogspot.com/2011/06/peggle-and-smurfette-principle.html (via miserablism)
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The Lamp by Anna Kamienska
I write in order to comprehend not to express myself I don’t grasp anything I’m not ashamed to admit it sharing this not knowing with a maple leaf So I turn with questions to words wiser than myself to things that will endure long after us I wait to gain wisdom from chance I expect sense from silence Perhaps something suddenly will happen and pulse with hidden truth like the spirit of the flame in...
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“All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the...”
– Doris Lessing (via proustitute)
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The Lung, Dinosaur Jr. (via suicidewatch)
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from I'm In Love by Charles Bukowski
I held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and sick. all the things I had learned had been wasted. there was no creature living as foul as I and all my poems were false.
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“You wonder what I am doing? Well, so do I, in truth. Days seem to dawn, suns to...”
– Letter from T.E. Lawrence to Eric Kennington, May 6th 1935 (via sleepingtigers)
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“I think we can all recognize that the ‘it’s a joke excuse’ is the...”
– You can take your “just joking” and shove it. (via xuananigans)
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by Izumi Shikibu
Even if I now saw you Only once, I would long for you Through worlds, Worlds.
