May 2011
17 posts
1 tag
We all do want to leave at times, but none of us know how.
– Anthony Luebbert
1 tag
I worry that no one else will love me as much as you once did.
1 tag
That much.
“You’ve been on a self empowerment kick for a while now.”
“My whole life it seems.”
“When you’ve spent your whole life on a self-empowerment kick, where do the other people fit in?”
“They get in.”
“Other people also have moments where they fuck up and feel out of control and make mistakes and do counterproductive, unhealthy things you know.”
“I know, but when thing start to fall apart, when...
1 tag
…we are only fiction. We are only the idea we have of ourselves.
– Edmond Jabes
1 tag
being more, doing more
Part of it is learning to succumb to the world around you. Like learning to enjoy waking up bleary eyed so you can enjoy the quiet and stillness of a house or street just before everyone else awakens it. Like learning to enjoy your last sip of coffee being lukewarm because then every cup of coffee will bring you that simple pleasure. It’s so easy to express dissatisfaction with the world, as...
2 tags
He was a changing god, destroyed and recreated by his believers, destroyed and...
– Johnathan Safran Foer
1 tag
Daily
I’m having a hard time choosing between nothing, a little, and a lot.
1 tag
The person who defines your understanding of love is not inherently different...
– Chuck Klosterman
3 tags
Summer Reading List
Inferno-Eileen Myles
Factotum-Charles Bukowski
The Waves-Virginia Woolf
Everything Is Illuminated-Johnathan Safar Foer
A Visit From The Goon Squad-Jennifer Egan
Letters To A Young Poet-Rainer Maria Rilke
Wise Blood-Flannery O’Connor
The 39th Harvard Review
The Blind Assassin-Margaret Atwood
The Trial-Franz Kafka
Things that feel important:
fiction
...
3 tags
1 tag
Happiness became her project. She wanted to know all the ways it was defined, all the ways it was felt, all the ways it came into being. She was convinced she had a good sense of its opposite, but that she wouldn’t be able to understand the thing itself until she had extensively read, wrote, and spoken about it.
2 tags
1 tag
What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but...
– Søren Kierkegaard (via human-voices)