March 2012
98 posts
February 2012
98 posts
“I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to...”
– John Keats (via maloneill)
and i'm feeling directionless, yes, but that's to...
I had what must have seemed to the people I wasn’t crying to a very successful Transition to College. I never felt homesick or called my parents asking if I could come home; I never messed up really badly; I got myself on a good sleep ‘n’ eat schedule; I made friends really quickly; I didn’t end my life. But that had a lot to do with making a very conscious (and misguided)...
“Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know—because once I wanted something and...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned (via awritersruminations)
“Nothing means what we mean it to mean.
And that’s the part
I can’t ever get...”
– Theodore Worozbyt, excerpt from Dinner With the Blues (via megalita)
“She did not want to go to work, although she was very late; and so she remained...”
– James Alan McPherson, Hue and Cry (via underthechinaberrytree) Exactly.
i know i know i know.
I thought I could do this, step bravely out into the world and conquer it on my own. I thought I was smart and capable and intrepid. And maybe I even was, in theory, but now I’m just tired, and I want to go home. I want familiar voices and smells and arms, good conversations with people who aren’t assessing me, late nights with people I love and who love me. I want stability, and a...
“I considered it desirable that he should know nothing about me, but it was even...”
– Flann O’Brien
me: wow i like this person a lot
me: i should talk to this person
me: wow look!!!! a perfect chance to talk to this person i should totally take it
me: types out message
me: gets nervous
me: exits page
me: floats away from computer
me: drifts out window
me: is lifted up into space
me: orbits around earth
me: is incinerated by the sun
“Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (via aestivial)
“When I said I wasn’t with another girl the January after we fell in love for the...”
– Jon Sands: A Working List of Things I Will Never Tell You
I know I’ve posted part of this before, but I just came across it again and wanted to share the whole thing.
(via rhymeswithleather)
me: I'm gonna study when I get home
me: I'll just study before I go to bed
me: I'll just study in the morning
me: I'll just study on the way to school
me: I'll just study in this class
me: I'll just study in the hall
me: I'll just study before the test
me: I'll just study during the test
“Turn down the lights. Turn down the bed. Turn down these voices inside my head....”
