February 2012
6 posts
“I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine...”
– Cameron, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that...”
– Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (via alwaysinventing)
“Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little world with the deep need...”
– Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin
“I am patient with stupidity but not those who are proud of it.”
– Edith Sitwell, I Live Under a Black Sun
“What It’s Like To Hit an Old Man in the Head With a Gun”...”
– Patterns of Paper Monsters
“I just want it all to stop spinning.”
– Perks of Being a Wallflower
January 2012
16 posts
“To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a...”
– Anthony Doerr, Memory Wall: Stories
“Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? …Well,...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am...”
– Margaret Atwood, Cat’s Eye
“It is books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take...”
– Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness
“Women fall in love when they get to know you. Men are just the opposite. When...”
– James Salter, Dusk and Other Stories
“‘There’s a look little girls have who are adored by their fathers,’ Bea said....”
– Maile Meloy, Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It
“It was almost reckless how vulnerable she allowed herself to be; you couldn’t...”
– Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
“She has often felt that her outsides were too dull for her insides, that deep...”
– Myla Goldberg, Bee Season
“It’s usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny...”
– Saul Bellow, A Silver Dish
“It wasn’t only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was...”
– Ian McEwan, Atonement
“Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we’re still...”
– ― Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
“I think that’s the real loss of innocence: the first time you glimpse the...”
– Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole
“The emphasis on sex that currently permeates our public life attest not to our...”
– Ellen Willis, No More Nice Girls
“His face contained for me all possibilities of fierceness and sweetness, pride...”
– Alice Munro, Lives of Girls and Women
“People are not good at heart but because their environment encourages it. Anyone...”
– Zimbardo
“At this point in human history we have enough material resources to feed,...”
– The High Price of Materialism, Tim Kasser
December 2011
14 posts
“I want to be a comfort to my friends in tragedy, and I want to be able to...”
“…decide…whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it...”
“Whenever something happens that is not part of your plan, you pretend like it...”
“There will always be those who confront their fears and those who run away from...”
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension,...”
– Anais Nin
“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make...”
“If you’re stuck between two options, flip a coin. It works, not because it...”
“When you’re in college, don’t worry too much about grades. Other than getting...”
“If you desire a promotion, ask for it. But first, I hope to God you never leave...”
“Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.
Hunter S....”
“I guess when your heart gets broken, you sort of start to see the cracks in...”
“Five seagulls are sitting on a dock. One of them decides to fly away. How many...”
– Andy Andrews, The Noticer
“Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. -Henry David Thoreau”
“Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with...”
July 2011
1 post
“Better to lose him than to lose yourself in him.”
May 2011
1 post
“I realized that I was holding on to someone that didn’t exist anymore....”
April 2011
4 posts
“I was completely stupefied by Inferno in the best of ways. In fact, I think I...”
“It is a curious thing, but as one travels the world getting older and older, it...”
“The core of literature is the idea of tragedy … You don’t really learn much from...”
“I know now that almost everyone wonders something like that, sooner or later and...”
March 2011
11 posts
“My most committed relationship is with my Pandora radio station.”
“Growing up, adults would say, “You don’t even know who you are...”
“Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.”
– Paul Tournier
“Nearly all men can stand adversity…but if you want to test a man’s character,...”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to...”
– Winston Churchill
“If you want to know the reason why I am standing here, it’s because of...”
– Michelle Obama
“But that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say…they think...”
– Khaled Hosseini
“If you embrace uncertainty, nothing can go wrong.”
– Deepak Chopra