January 2010
40 posts
— I’ve Put A Spell On You, Ray...
but i’m beginning to believe, more and more, that your past does hold you, and will never let go of your hand. no, you cannot shake it from yourself. its not like coming in from the rain. this is you. so although i know you can rise above it — you cannot erase it. you may change, you may grow, you may choose how it affects you, but it won’t wash away. but why would you want it...
constantflux:
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“Sink into the bathtub, cold-shouldering the clock, tipped back 45 degrees into this porcelain lap” … “Begin planning a trip for late February or March. Propel Disapproving Rubber Duck through the cooling water with my toe and decree: Everyone travels alone, really. Even beside each other, we are each affected and transported and challenged and made whole again alone. ...
“We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can’t have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful, or disloyal, or childish, or banal. Or because we’re so desperate to pretend that things are OK, really, that confessing to ourselves they’re not looks like a bad move. Go on, say what you want. … Whatever it is, say it to yourself....
classic cars.
“The whole world, it loves you if you are a chic chameleon. Intersecting circles she could hang with anyone. But when conducting business she would lie about where she’s from. Saying, ‘Life is how it is, not how it was’. I learned to listen, felt like I was back at school. She’d talk forever about the phases of the moon. Saying, ‘Everything is a cycle,...
let’s not forget ourselves, good friend.
i am flawed if i’m not free.
“How do people, like, not curse? How is it possible? There are these gaps in speech where you just have to put a “fuck.” I’ll tell you who the most admirable people in the world are: newscasters. If that was me, I’d be like, “And the motherfuckers flew the fucking plane right into the Twin Towers.” How could you not, if you’re a human being? Maybe...
“For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via quotewhore)
““In some ways, betrayal is inevitable.
When our bodies betray us,...”
– Christina Yang
31. If what you’re doing feels perfectly safe,...
(via tsunamis)
“don’t feel too safe, dear.”
“Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
letters from the civil war.
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dear you.
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i would have.
but i’ll walk away. now whats that youre saying. whatever, right?
-b
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dear you,
i feel you out there ahead of me; you’re just out of reach. i’m not there, where-ever you are. are you almost? are you not-yet?
when i’m driving down and the sun is hitting the horizon, my hands are on the steering wheel and the wind blows in the windows,...
Ever Want to Crawl, Nikki Giovanni
poetry365:
ever want to crawl in someone’s arms white out the world in someone’s arms and feel the world of someone’s arms it’s so hot in hell if i don’t sweat i’ll melt
“I hope someday somebody wants to hold you for 20 minutes straight and that’s all...”
– — the waitress. (via gatekeeper)
telegram.
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the small handful of people who don’t want something from me
stop
is getting smaller
stop
please dont ask anything of me stop
i have nothing to give
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On Reading “A Wedding in Hell” by Charles Simic I’m sitting down to consider God doesn’t exist. He is my one and only unanswered question, if you ignore wars, death and UFOs. and girls. Dear heavenly justice, did you come in on the big bang bus; are you leaving with it? or did you really drive that double-decker layered into above-firmament and below-firmament? Simic...
“What about little microphones? What if everyone swallowed them, and they played the sounds of our hearts through little speakers, which could be in the pouches of our overalls? When you skateboarded down the street at night you could hear everyone’s heartbeat, and they could hear yours, sort of like sonar. One weird thing is, I wonder if everyone’s hearts would start to beat at...
You held up your hand, curled your fingers in and said ‘This is how big your heart is. As big as a fist.’ I held up my hand, closed it over yours and said ‘No. My heart will always be bigger than your fist.’”
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I Wrote This For You: The Transplant In The Subway
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file under: things that are true but don’t necesarily make anything any easier.
“well I met you at the blood bank we were looking at the bags. wondering if any of the colors matched any of the names we knew on the tags. You said ‘see look, that’s yours. Stacked on top with your brother’s. See how the resemble one another even in their plastic little covers.’”
—blood bank, bon iver.
the sand speaks.
I’m fluid and omnivorous, casual in my eternity. I’ll knock up your oysters. I’ll eat your diamonds. I’m a mutt, no one thing at all, just the size that counts
and if you’re animal small enough, come; if you’re vegetable small enough, come; if you’re mineral small enough, come. Mothers, brush me from the hands
of your children....
i’m freaked out by strangers i meet weirdly knowing things about me.
— letting the cables sleep. bush.
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if...
from the surface your body, which will one day let...
can you be honest? do you even remember how to? or have you practiced that disguise so well that you can’t even tell the truth here, where no one can hear you.
when it really counts, can you even take it off anymore.
“When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I...”
– John Green/Paper Towns (via parrisanne) (via dondante)
my happiness has been hard won; i recently read that.
do you know that phrase? you do now. and after this year, so do i.
happiness is hard won.
so, no. now that im here? i am
never. going. back.
and you bet your life im not turning around.
— audience of one, cold war kids
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reach...
"Let this leave me so something else can land."
(via dondante)
Kepler telescope has turned up five 'exoplanets,'... →
“Alan Boss, an astrophysicist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, said that Kepler is finding things that no one has ever seen before.
‘They’re going to find all kinds of weird stuff,’ Boss said. ‘The universe, it really is a weird place. It’s fantastic.’”
quote in which alan boss describes every feeling i’ve ever had about the...
— A Billion Tones of Light, Vega4.
