March 2011
1 post
January 2011
1 post
December 2010
3 posts
“Grace: Two days ago he asked me if I liked music. Like music is something people...”
– Away We Go
“Sun is bad for you. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red...”
– Alvy Singer, Annie Hall
“November like a train wreck –
as if a locomotive made of cold
had hurtled out...”
– Tony Hoagland, Reasons to Survive November
November 2010
4 posts
“Given a long enough time, of course, a wide enough frame, there is nothing said...”
– Mrs. Horrible Morrible, Wicked by Gregory Maguire
The Secret to More Energy: Tap the Geyser of Your... →
An unused gift (or one you don’t take all the way to harvest) will quietly annihilate your life. It’s not that you’ll keel over because you didn’t start taking photographs or sing. But you will walk off kilter. Your heart will sag with an extra thousand pounds. Your voice will crack when you say your name. There is something unrighteous about not doing what you came here to do.
October 2010
14 posts
“In 1920 Hans Reiter was born. He seemed less like a child than like a strand of...”
– Roberto Bolaño, 2666
“Sometimes I feel very young and other times I feel like the side of a ship...”
– John Darnielle (via whatisitlike)
An Argument With Myself by Jens Lekman (live at...
“You’re a very stylish girl. Can’t we end this stylishly?”
– Paul Varjak, Breakfast at Tiffany’s
September 2010
5 posts
“Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming...”
– Victor Hugo
Ecology of the Mind →
Our Last Swim in the Ocean by Jens Lekman.
...
August 2010
4 posts
“Sometimes I found it hard to remember his treachery, sometimes I discovered...”
– John Knowles, A Seperate Peace
“Beyond the gym and the fields began the woods, our, the Devon School’s...”
– John Knowles, A Seperate Peace
“We can probably tell a good deal about an era by its most prominent literary...”
– Michael Cunningham, introduction to Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice
July 2010
3 posts
June 2010
3 posts
May 2010
8 posts
1 tag
2 tags
“Imagination is not the privilege of a select few, born with greater receptivity...”
– Gianni Rodari
geography for beginners →
(via fuckyeahthemountaingoats)
Maps and John Darnielle; two of my favourite things.
September by Tvärvägen.
I need you in September...
April 2010
5 posts
1 tag
“When the first living thing existed, I was there, waiting.
When the last...”
– Death, Sandman No. 20: Façade
The Mountain Pt. 2 by Björn Kleinhenz, my second...