January 2012
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Jan 26th
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Jan 20th
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““The wind is blowing, blowing over the grass. It shakes the willow...”
– Silverweed’s Song, Watership Down, by Richard Adams i’ve read this book 19 times and counting. it never gets old.
Jan 20th
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Jan 17th
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i just started writing my last grad school application essay in earnest (thank you goes to ryan, for the sit-down brainstorming coffee giggle session this morning that inspired today’s cogency after many, many, many weeks of essay aimlessness). i finally know where this one-page essay is going, and i know what words to use to get it there. when i finish it later tonight, it’s going to...
Jan 15th
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“I don’t suppose I really know you very well - but I know you smell like the...”
– Zelda Fitzgerald, in a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (via debonairs)
Jan 12th
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“Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in...”
– Carl Sagan’s widow, Ann Druyan
Jan 11th
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Why You're Beautiful →
via the wonderful Kyle Lipinski
Jan 9th
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Jan 9th
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Jan 9th
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Jan 9th
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Jan 3rd
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Jan 2nd
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December 2011
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Dec 30th
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“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow, and I am in them, and that is...”
– Edvard Munch (via kobalts-grey)
Dec 30th
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Dec 28th
“My glassy heart smashed into his, The shattered pieces of everything we had held...”
– Thoughts (via romeoforgotjuliet)
Dec 24th
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Dec 21st
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“It’s said it takes seven years to grow completely new skin cells. To think,...”
–  Brett Elizabeth Jenkins (via kennedycurse)
Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 15th
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i want to buy a ticket to go somewhere far away. somewhere simple and quiet where i can rest or walk or read. i can sit in place with these tight longings humming in my chest, eyes closed, gentle breath. only i will feel them. all mine to feel and no one else’s. i will not share because doing so makes me embarrassingly human. it’s uncomfortable to feel that way - fragile and...
Dec 10th
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“I’m not explaining this right. What happened was this. There were these...”
– Carson McCullers (via thechocolatebrigade)
Dec 6th
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Dec 6th
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Dec 6th
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it’s 11:22p but i have to be up for another 40 minutes before i can register for classes next semester… i think.. according to some lady i spoke to over the phone a month ago and if remember our conversation correctly. it doesn’t look like one of my mandatory prerequisites has any open sections.. and that i have to schedule another from 9:00a-1:00p every Saturday from January...
Dec 5th
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“And enough for me that when my hand touched your shoulder, you leaned on me; and...”
– Orson Scott Card
Dec 4th
degrassé →
dictionaryofobscuresorrows: ajd. entranced and unsettled by the vastness of the universe, experienced in a jolt of recognition that the night sky is not just a wallpaper but a deeply foreign ocean whose currents are steadily carrying off all other castaways, who share our predicament but are already well out of earshot—worlds and stars who would’ve been lost entirely except for the scrap of light...
Dec 3rd
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Dec 2nd
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November 2011
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Nov 30th
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Nov 29th
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“I will not wait to love as best as I can. We thought we were young and that...”
– Dave Eggers (via ireadintothings)
Nov 28th
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“Perhaps we dont like what we see: our hips, our loss of hair, our shoe size, our...”
– Sufjan Stevens (via atomos)
Nov 17th
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Nov 17th
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ListenA Kiss to Build a Dream On, Louis Armstrong
Nov 15th
“Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a...”
– Mother Teresa (via 40ceans)
Nov 15th
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i’m home alone tonight to bake a cake and as i absentmindedly crossed the room to stick it with a toothpick, i passed by Saint Brigid the Brave curled up on our paper bag stack underneath the coffee nook. i glanced down at her and then said to her in a singsongy way, “oh my little brigid cat. you are my only friend.” and then i realized what had actually come out of my mouth. i...
Nov 15th
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i am drinking a huge bowl of espresso and reading this reddit thread because IT IS FASCINATING. if my two options for next fall don’t work out, i would like to become a particle physicist. i’m trying to finish an essay and begin another, and am using tumblr to warm up my brain and finger muscles. both tasks must be finished in the next 12 hours per the rigorous rad school application...
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Updated: WHOEVER MOST SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETES THIS...
I officially declared my undergraduate major in Political Science as a second-semester junior, remarkably late in my academic career. I was expected to both begin and complete all departmental requirements in my remaining two semesters, squeezing double the coursework into half the time typically allotted. In a schedule already brimming with responsibilities as a Head Resident Assistant and as the...
Nov 9th
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Nov 7th
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“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t...”
– Louise Erdrich (The Painted Drum)
Nov 4th
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Nov 3rd
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“I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of...”
– J.D. Salinger  (via ellioteee) this. part of why i, a girl from south dakota who used to fantasize about moving to ‘the city,’ now fantasizes about living out in the middle of the woods/plains/hills somewhere. old mugs that hold that stale smell of coffee, millions of stars, the moon,...
Nov 3rd
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“Funny how when your life is mostly bullshit, you turn off feeling. Sometimes...”
– Ellen Hopkins (via cassius-blue)
Nov 2nd
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ListenDay Too Soon, Sia
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October 2011
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Oct 26th
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Oct 25th