January 2012
1 post
whatever, etc.: no shit. →
inkdot:
This weekend I was told a story which, although I’m kind of ashamed to admit it, because holy shit is it ever obvious, is kind of blowing my mind.
A friend of a friend won a free consultation with Clinton Kelly of What Not To Wear, and she was very excited, because she has a plus-size body, and…
“None of us should ever have to face death to accept the inflexible and,...”
– Merlin Mann, No One Needs Permission to Be Awesome (via benzado)
December 2010
1 post
October 2010
1 post
September 2010
9 posts
“Pain is never permanent.”
– St. Terersa of Avila (via libraryland)
“You’re not a bad person because you want to be yourself.”
– Jodi Picoult, My Sister’s Keeper (via quote-book) (via starfishlost) (via libraryland)
“Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo”
– For the English majors out there…
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I will never get over the fact that the above words are a complete grammatically valid sentence. :(
/dork
(via cyfan)
This makes my brain bleed.
(via...
“To destroy is always the first step in any creation.”
– ee cummings
(via briandoody)
(via libraryland)
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the...”
– Ray Bradbury (via libraryland)
July 2010
5 posts
Kitten found stuffed in library book drop →
libraryland:
So sad. Book Drop abuse has got to stop. And what kind of a monster hurts a kitten?
This is just awful. Why would ANYONE do something like this?
June 2010
16 posts
“Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the...”
– The Summer Day - Poem by Mary Oliver (via writandwisdom) (via libraryland, califragilistic)
May 2010
1 post
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via libraryland)
April 2010
3 posts
“Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation....”
– Aldous Huxley in Island (1962) (via predatorywaspobserver) (via libraryland)
March 2010
11 posts
“Follow your inner moonlight: don’t hide the madness.”
– Allen Ginsberg (via littlebat) (via booklover) (via libraryland)
“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via kari-shma) (via libraryland)
Advice I really should learn to follow, methinks…
“A story is like water
that you heat for your bath.
It takes messages between...”
– Rumi (via dailyrumi)
“You are here for a purpose. There is no duplicate of you in the whole world....”
– Lou Austin (via: elicec) (via quote-book) (via livingtoseayou) (via booklover) (via wordpainting) (via libraryland) (via chrysilla)
February 2010
25 posts
“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
– Stephen King (via misswallflower) (via creativeinspiration) (via booklover) (via libraryland)