February 2012
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“We need bigger pockets, I thought as I lay in bed, counting off the seven...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via dehypnotized)
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“I grew up watching your hands arrange space, so I find it very natural that when...”
– Dorothea Grossman (via beryl-azure)
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“Men, in return, thrived. The ego candy they feasted on by virtue of...”
– Why Patriarchal Men Are Utterly Petrified of Birth Control — And Why We’ll Still Be Fighting About it 100 Years From Now
An absolutely fantastic article. Amazing. Please go read it.
(via libraryatsea)
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“These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles...”
– Robert Frost (via larmoyante)
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“I sat thinking how terribly sad it was that people are made in such a way that...”
– The Solitaire Mystery, Jostein Gaarder
(submitted by noonedonatespurple)
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“The sea up close is enormous. I squeezed my eyes against it for a moment, which...”
– Franny Billingsley, The Folk Keeper (via endofmarch)
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“I would never be part of anything. I would never really belong anywhere, and I...”
– Jean Rhys, Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography (via lydianea)
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“تعال عش في قلبي ولا تدفع الايجار
Come, live in my heart, and pay no rent.”
– Arabic proverb (via spine)
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“When the day shall come that we do part,” he said softly, and turned to look at...”
– Diana Gabaldon (via whatokay)
✈: The Quiet World by Jeffrey McDaniels →
In an effort to get people to look into each other’s eyes more, and also to appease the mutes, the government has decided to allot each person exactly one hundred and sixty-seven words, per day. When the phone rings, I put it to my ear without saying hello. In the restaurant I point…
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“Love me or hate me, both are in my favor…If you love me, I’ll always be in your...”
– William Shakespeare (via fuckyeahzurielo)
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“Even if I now saw you
Only once,
I would long for you
Through worlds,...”
– Izumi Shikibu (via seabois)
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“When the newspapers were full of alarms about Iran possibly developing a nuclear...”
– Howard Zinn on Kurt Vonnegut (via verycunninglinguist)
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“Babaamr is facing a genocide right now. I will never forgive you for your...”
– One of Syrian citizen journalist Rami Al-Sayed’s last messages. The 27-year-old Al-Sayed, who bravely documented what was going on in the wartorn city of Homs, was actively targeted by the regime’s shelling according to activists. He ran a live feed of the bombardment of his city, out of the...
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“Love is distinct from desire… Because its aim is not satisfaction, but being.”
– Jacques Lacan, Seminar I, trans. John Forrester (via proustitute)
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“Healing grief does not mean making the grief disappear, but rather making peace...”
– Barry Grosskopf (via bloodisthenewblackk)
