January 2012
11 posts
women vs. men
When I look back on my little life and all the women I’ve known. I can’t help to think about all that they’ve done for me, I hadn’t left up for them, how they looked after me, and cared for me, and I would pay them by never returning the favor. Yeah, I used to think I had the best end of the deal. What have I got… really… some money in my pocket, some nice threads, a fancy car at my disposal,...
I want a man that does what he wants to do rather than what he is told.
HappyThankYouMorePlease
It’s not easy to be adored. You, in particular, you have a tougher time with it than most. I get that. But I want you to give it a try. Think of it as an experiment. I promise I will be very wonderful at adoring you, Annie. It’s an area where I think I got a great deal of talent. You’re worth the adoration, Annie. You’re worth it, and the fact that you don’t...
Thinking of you
Do I believe in this, or is this the only way to get around in my life Do I deserve this? No you deserve so much better in your life, In your life Thinking of you Thinking of you So what can I do when I’m thinking of you Did you stay up all night? Did you hide it all away to make it seem dark? Is this what I think it is ? It’s the ink on your fingers that make you sick,...
“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”
– Trollope
The Marriage Plot, J. Eugenides
“Exactly!” Mitchell cried. “You’re not attracted to me physically. O.K., fine. But who says I was ever attracted to you mentally?”
I don't understand; I understand
“There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.”
― Søren Kierkegaard
December 2011
34 posts
TJ
“If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.”
“We could never understand why the girls cared so much about being mature, or why...”
“I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in...”
– Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“Things works out the way things are meant to work out. Sometimes I think we...”
– Shades of Ray
My favorite Art Hum read →
Modern day Lyric Essay - Over It →
“Baby help me please
In knowing this
‘Cause showing never tells
Was it...”
– Au Revoir Simone
“I’ve had my frustrations about the pains of daily life
I’ve tasted...”
– JULIAN PLENTI
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All human beings are born free and equal in...
“Indeed, our religion and our culture are sources of compassion and inspiration toward our fellow human beings…For many of us, religious belief and practice is a vital source of meaning and identity, and fundamental to who we are as people. And likewise, for most of us, the bonds of love and family that we forge are also vital sources of meaning and identity. And caring for others is...
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― Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
“Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t believe in “sadness,” “joy,” or “regret.” Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I’d like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, “the happiness that attends...
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of...”
– Plato
BALZAC and the LITTLE CHINESE SEAMSTRESS, Dai...
“The saying goes: a sincere heart can make even a stone blossom. So tell me, was the flower girl’s heart lacking in sincerity?”
“But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away....”
– Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at,...”
– Joan Didion
November 2011
32 posts
“My FWB got personal with me for the whole next hour, in broad daylight in the...”
– quotes from something I’ve been working on, about one of the most meaningful relationships i’ve ever had
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