January 2012
2 posts
“There should be a banner erected in every elementary school: DOING WELL HERE...”
– No Great Illusion: Unsettled
December 2011
20 posts
“They have that show 16 and Pregnant? There could be a show called “25 and...”
– Aziz Ansari (via nogreatillusion)
Sigh.
nogreatillusion:
When a man in a garbage bag poncho starts following me on the street at night, the only emotion I feel is a vague, bored annoyance that I now have to run a little bit.
Dude. I’m tired. I’m wearing wedges. Be creepy when I have flats on and I haven’t just worked for 10 hours.
“It takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t...”
– Galway Kinnell (via atomos)
“But knowing what I don’t want to do doesn’t help me figure out what I do want to...”
– The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle. (via isnteverything)
November 2011
4 posts
“When shit brings you down, just say ‘fuck it’, and eat yourself some...”
– David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day (via the-the-andthe)
nogreatillusion:
When an evening with a guy starts to get sexy, in my head I’m Eva Green, with a bit of Marion Cotillard - serious, foreign, a bit dangerous.
I’ve come to realize that the reality is much closer to that scene in Ghost World where Thora Birch pops open a bottle of champagne and kicks her legs up on an arm chair. “You like me, right Seymour?”
Afterward, she gets annoyed while...
September 2011
2 posts
5 tags
“That’s what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
– Arundhati Roy, “The God of Small Things” via There’s an art to everything:
(via nogreatillusion)
August 2011
4 posts
2 tags
4 tags
“Most friendships, if they end at all, end not by earthquake but by erosion. Your...”
– Box Office Poison (via synecdoche)
July 2011
2 posts
“I write to live life twice.”
– LaToya Jordan (via lesmotsjustes)
June 2011
23 posts
“If you remember me, I don’t care if everybody else forgets.”
– Haruki Murakami (via eastatlanta)
“These people shouldn’t be in my present. They deserve to be in the past. But in...”
– Ryan O’Connell for Thought Catalog (via clairefoley)
“She likes to imagine that she has a touch of brilliance herself, just a hint of...”
– Michael Cunningham, The Hours (via trenchantashell)
