June 2011
33 posts
The Drawbridge: Burning My Bridges →
thedrawbridge:
This is an excerpt from a short story I wrote (and some of you read) that got cut from the final product - but I liked it so it’s going up here!
You know how people always say to burn your bridges? Well, people never tell you what happens afterwards. I think people tell you to burn your…
“‘Demons run
‘When a good man goes to war
‘Night will fall and drown the sun...”
– River Song, Doctor Who, A Good Man Goes To War (via circusgifs)
The Other Child: I wonder if anyone else feels... →
thepondsotherchild:
Occasionally (read: every day) I get these waves of despair which I call dementor attacks, for obvious reasons. They can last anywhere from a few minutes to a few weeks. In the shorter ones, once this feeling begins to pass, a soft, almost comfortable unhappiness settles upon me. I call these…
“Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been....”
– Eve Ensler (via misswallflower)
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“I would only believe in a god who could dance. When I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirt of gravity—through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirt of gravity!” —Nietzsche
“Love is not a because, it’s a no matter what.”
– Jodi Picoult (Second Glance)
wearemostaliveindreams:
poison oak wraps our hearts but our roots don’t grow deep enough to ease the itch of being lost, cast out to sea without rod or sail.
Attention all Chicagoans!!
fyeahkellyt:
The 4th Annual Chicago Zombie March takes place this Saturday from 3pm-6pm at Millennium Park!! Come one, come all, this will be fun! More details can be found on the Facebook event page. I’m going to be there as well, so give me a holler if you want to meet up! :)
Overheard
So Many Jobs Are Made Interesting Only By the Arbitrary Exercise of Petty Authority
Customer service person: I’ll be right with you, ma’am. He was first. Female customer: No, he wasn’t. Customer Service person: Yes, he was. Male customer: No, I wasn’t. Customer service person: Yes, you were. Bank of America, NY
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension,...”
– Anaïs Nin
I don’t care how many times I’ve posted or reblogged this: it is my favourite quote.
(via alphabet-of-thorn)
“Even those who deny the existence of global climate change are having trouble...”
– From Sharon Begley’s stunning cover story for this week’s Newsweek. And it was written before the storms that hit Springfield, Mass.
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(via newsweek-paris-france)
“Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel...”
– Handle With Care, Jodi Picoult (via word-collector) 