March 2012
“But the moon came slowly up in all her gentle glory, and the stars looked out,...”
– Charles Dickens
phthinoporo-deactivated20130408 asked: Dryad, please please - tell me a story. Xx
“Leonardo’s Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo’s...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
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“I never forget what I feel.”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
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“I’m constantly on the defensive. Life and other people bruise me. I...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet, trans. Margaret Jull Costa
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“The only thought
that wandered across
my mind as I
watched the clouds
float...”
– Tyler Knott Gregson
“Remember
me. Do you
remember me?
In the night’s windowless darkness
when I...”
– Franz Wright, from Dedication
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3/22/2012 I watched The Hunger Games with my friends and I loved every second of it.
“Wish on everything. Pink cars are good, especially old ones. And stars of...”
– Francesca Lia Block
A conversation with Isabel Monteiro and Jeff...
Jeff Buckley: You know, it's like we've got this weather system trapped inside us - in the pit of the stomach, the clouds are always forming and waiting to rise. Even when everything's sunny, the clouds are always there, brewing. And every now and again they rise up and it pours for days, sometimes weeks; then it dies away, the sun comes out and the whole thing starts again. We're stuck with it, the clouds within.
Isabel Monteiro: But that means we can never be happy??
Jeff Buckley: Yeah, that's right, people like us can never be happy.
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“a bouquet of clumsy words: you know that place between sleep and awake where...”
– e.e.cummings
A Collection of Rare and Obscure Words Cheiloproclitic - Being attracted to someones lips. Quidnunc - One who always has to know what is going on. Ultracrepidarian - Of one who speaks or offers opinions on matters beyond their knowledge. Apodyopis - The act of mentally undressing someone. Gymnophoria - The sensation that someone is mentally undressing you. Tarantism - The urge to overcome...
“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think...”
– Kurt Vonnegut 