January 2012
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Here is what awaits you out in the world: the stands-too-close monsters behind...
– Girls And Staying In | Kate Carraway for Vice (via drinkyourjuice)
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This book gives me more information about penguins than I care to have.
– In 1944 a children’s book club sent a volume about penguins to a 10-year-old girl, enclosing a card seeking her opinion.
She wrote, “This book gives me more information about penguins than I care to have.”
American diplomat Hugh Gibson called it the finest piece of literary criticism he had ever...
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December 2011
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Sometimes I read through me and Katie's old gchats to make myself laugh until I cry. Example:
Katie: CANT TURN THE CAPS OFF
MUSHROOM CAPS
me: tooth caps
baseball caps
baseball caps lock
hahaha
i just made myself laugh
out loud
imagining pushing a button that would suddenly make everyone in the world wear a baseball cap
until you hit it again
and they'd go away
Katie: stop it, disgusting :)
me: claps lock
ALL CLAPPING ALL THE TIME
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I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. ...
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Is it super cliche to post a quote from the Bell Jar that *speaks to me*? Too bad, I guess. I haven’t read this book since high school but I still think about this image all the time. I just want to eat all the figs!!
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The Magic Trick | The Hairpin →
isnteverything:
Read this if you missed it like I did.
oh, yes.
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November 2011
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When you mention a romantic breakup to someone, they immediately understand what...
– Rookie » Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
Rookie mag on friendship breakups, and how they can really, really suck. I wish this piece was longer.
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On "Pride and Prejudice"
lazybookreviews:
[edited but read this part too]
Oh, and while rewatching the [Pride & Prejudice] miniseries, as one does, a strange thought occurs to me: when you’re in a period film, and they make up a fake oil painting of you for your stately home, they probably just give it to you when you’re done, right? What else would they do with it? Do you think Colin Firth has an eight-foot-tall...
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shirtdress:
Mates Of State - Sway
October 2011
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I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
– L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (via carouselinparis)