May 2013
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commovente:
i’m reading my anthropology textbook, thinking about how our brains have increased triple the size in the past two million years. everything is becoming so complicated so fast. let’s be simple again. let’s live in trees again. let’s only discover fire again.
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commovente:
a little bit rainy. lipstick on napkins. the sound of someone playing the piano somewhere in the distance. quiet coffee shops where the baristas all know you by name. people who raise their umbrellas and smile on busy sidewalks.
tardisity:
The oldest person alive was born on April 19, 1897, meaning that April 18th, 1897 was approximately the last time the Earth was inhabited by an entirely different set of people and if you don’t think that’s the realist shit ever then you can get right on outta town.
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Daisy began to sing with the music in a husky, rhythmic whisper, bringing out a...
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. The most grotesque and...
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his...
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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His hand took hold of hers and as she said something low in his ear he turned...
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
wiltedbones:
vii. how someone can smell like rainwater, senses heightened, hands holding atmosphere and molecules in their grip / balloons as a reminder of hope, not knowing where they end up but knowing they have to make it somewhere / wanting to document the people you realize you will miss, the kindness and understanding they have offered you / surviving a year / knowing that summer brought...
Imagine a room,
a sudden glow. Here is my hand, my heart,
my throat, my wrist....
– “Saying Your Names,” Richard Siken (via merkmal)
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As a child I never heard one woman say to me, “I love my body.” Not my mother,...
– Kate Winslet (via wrists)
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He had passed visibly through two states and was entering upon a third. After...
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy and I think he revalued everything in his...
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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We always fight a lot when we’re together, but that’s only because...
– Sleeping In Flame by Jonathan Carroll
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When women first organized in groups to talk together about the issue of sexism...
– Feminism Is For Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks
You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago.
– (via wethinkwedream)
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So I just liked the Jonathan Carroll page on...
and he posts some really interesting stuff. He’s a wonderful author, so I knew he would. This is a question he posed on his page:
I know— some will say we change as we age and we’re never just one person. An ever-changing mixed salad of selves, depending on how old we are. That’s true. But humor me a few minutes and answer the question as best you can— If you could...
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FrenchFuck comments on What do you hate about... →
alkalinecitysouls:
The general lack of sympathy, understanding and compassion for what men go through. This translates to almost no attention on issues that we really ne…
What really got to me is the massive stigma against male teachers. Which is obvious because a) I’m a male and b) I will be a teacher at some point. People are quick to blame rape culture for not letting girls wear certain...
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Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately...
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Again at eight o’clock, when the dark lanes of the Forties were five deep with...
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes,...
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and...
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more...
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (via recklesslittlesin)
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He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly. It was one of those...
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
but on your bad days couldn’t you just say
“hey I’m having a bad day,”
instead...
– Andrea Gibson (via noshoes-noworries)
Royal Heart
You will never be let down by anyone
more than you will be let...
– Andrea Gibson, “Royal Heart” (via ohandreagibson)
And sometimes its the metal in the wind chimes that reminds us how soft the...
– Andrea Gibson - The Moon Is A Kite (via allpersistingstars)
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We all turned and looked around for Gatsby. It was testimony to the romantic...
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I’m just bummed because it’s never me.
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Harry Potter is Whiny
vinterfell:
THIS COMPLAINT USUALLY OCCURS DURING THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX WHERE HE’S A) EXPERIENCING PTSD, B) LIVING THROUGH THE TRAUMA OF WATCHING SOMEONE DIE, C) GETTING BULLIED / MOCKED BY THE ENTIRE WIZARDING WORLD, D) GETTING POSSESSED BY THE MOST EVIL WIZARD OF ALL TIME, E) LACK OF SLEEP, F) PUBERTY (WHICH IS BAD ENOUGH) G) BELIEVING FOR A WHILE HE KILLED HIS BEST FRIEND’S DAD, H) THINKING...
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PDF of "Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate... →
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With heightened focus on the construction of woman as a “victim” of...
– Feminism Is For Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks