February 2012
37 posts
Asking Too Much
militarynorbs:
“I want you to tell me about every person you’ve ever been in love with. Tell me why you loved them, then tell me why they loved you. Tell me about a day in your life you didn’t think you’d live through. Tell me what the word “home” means to you And tell me in a way that I’ll know your mothers name just by the way you describe your bed room when you were 8.
See, I wanna know the...
“You and your photographs of boats;
that repeated metaphor for departure,
or...”
– Cyril Wong, Boats (via yesyes)
“The lovers wait to lose their balance. They would dive
gratefully into the...”
– Cyril Wong, Accerelando (via grammatolatry)
“There is always one person you love who becomes that definition. It usually...”
– Chuck Klosterman (via imagefree)
“چه گرميم چه گرميم از اين عشق چو خورشيد
How warm are we from this love, like the...”
– Rumi (via nirvikalpa)
this room and everything in it: In Winter →
rabbit-light:
At four o’clock it’s dark. Today, looking out through dusk at three gray women in stretch slacks chatting in front of the post office, their steps left and right and back like some quick folk dance of kindness, I remembered the winter we spent crying in each other’s laps. What could you be thinking at this moment? How lovely and strange the gangly spines of trees...
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“The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop...”
– Katherine Mansfield
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from "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki...
May Kasahara:
“Anyway, it seems to me that the way most people go on living (I suppose there are a few exceptions), they think that the world or life (or whatever) is this place where everything is (or is supposed to be) basically logical and consistent. Talking with my neighbors here often makes me think that. Like, when somethings happens, whether it’s a big event that affects the whole society...
“Very early in my life, it was too late. At eighteen it was already too late. At...”
– First lines of The Lover, by Marguerite Duras (via elideario)
“In the morning, the whole world had a strange new smell. It was the smell of the...”
– A. S. Byatt, Possession (via writeaboutlove-)
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from 'Possession' by A. S. Byatt
“What is it my dear?” “Ah, how can we bear it?” “Bear what?” “This. For so short a time. How can we sleep this time away?” “We can be quiet together, and pretend - since it is only the beginning - that we have all the time in the world.” “And every day we shall have less. And then none.” “Would you rather, therefore,...
The top 10 most popular Dickens characters
amandaonwriting:
Ebenezer Scrooge has been voted the most popular Charles Dickens character, according to a poll held to mark the 200th anniversary of the author’s birth.
1. Ebenezer Scrooge - A Christmas Carol 2. Miss Havisham - Great Expectations 3. Sydney Carton - A Tale Of Two Cities 4. The Artful Dodger - Oliver Twist 5. Fagin - Oliver Twist 6. Joe Gargery - Great Expectations 7. Pip...
The Highwayman
An old favourite. Not least because of the illustrations that accompanied it, in the large tome I first found it in as a kid. Lovely gypsy black locks and red ribbons for the tragic lass! I have never gotten over such exotica
apoemaday:
by Alfred Noyes
The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees, The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas, The road was a ribbon of...
January 2012
41 posts
