forever if.

my-quotebook: “Listen, smile, agree. And then do whatever the...

Thu, 24 May 2012 03:45:26 -0400

“Listen, smile, agree. And then do whatever the fuck you were gonna do anyway.” -Robert Downey, Jr.

The Bluest Eye (1970)

Mon, 21 May 2012 09:54:01 -0400

Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another - physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.

TONI MORRISON

"I finished crying in the instant that you left."

Sun, 20 May 2012 04:47:07 -0400

“I finished crying in the instant that you left.”

- Lea Michele (Glee Cast) // It’s All Coming Back to Me Now

YOU GUYS. This is only the second book to make me move a hand to...

Sun, 20 May 2012 04:36:44 -0400

YOU GUYS. This is only the second book to make me move a hand to cover my mouth and this is significant because, if you didn’t know, I have a heart as hard as a coconut. Took me a while to get into it and when I did it ended up being one of the best I’ve ever read.

Then they came upon it from a turn in the road and they stopped and stood with the salt wind blowing in their hair where they’d lowered the hoods of their coats to listen. Out there was the gray beach with the slow combers rolling dull and leaden and the distant sound of it. Like the desolation of some alien sea breaking on the shores of a world unheard of. Out on the tidal flats lay a tanker half careened. Beyond that the ocean vast and cold and shifting heavily like a slowly heaving vat of slag and then the gray squall line of ash. He looked at the boy. He could see the disappointment in his face. I’m sorry it’s not blue, he said. That’s okay, said the boy.

Pearl Jam // Yellow LedbetterI said I know what I wear, that a...

Fri, 18 May 2012 05:24:00 -0400

Pearl Jam // Yellow Ledbetter
I said I know what I wear, that a box or a bag.

Eating Animals (2009)

Fri, 11 May 2012 15:45:37 -0400

Each question prompts another, and it’s easy to find yourself defending a position far more extreme than you actually believe or could live by.

JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

"Some find it easy; some will never even know."

Fri, 11 May 2012 10:10:00 -0400

“Some find it easy; some will never even know.”

- Keane // The Starting Line

Ms Harris, Misogyny. Dial it back about a billion clicks....

Sun, 06 May 2012 05:21:00 -0400

Ms Harris,

Misogyny. Dial it back about a billion clicks. It’s disgraceful.

I spent the length of the book oscillating between wanting to...

Fri, 04 May 2012 09:14:00 -0400

I spent the length of the book oscillating between wanting to marry and smack Holden.

It’s a cauldron of teenage wangst and posturing, but there’s that quiet despair and loneliness you just can’t turn away.

Catcher in the Rye (1951)

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 08:31:22 -0400

I don’t want you to get the idea she was a goddam icicle or something, just because we never necked or horsed around much. She wasn’t. I held hands with her all the time, for instance. That doesn’t sound like much, I realize, but she was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they’d bore you or something. Jane was different. We’d get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we’d start holding hands, and we wouldn’t quit till the movie was over. And without changing the position or making a big deal out of it. You never worried with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.

J.D. Salinger

Photo

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:21:41 -0400

Seriously... I'm Kidding (2011)

Tue, 17 Apr 2012 03:39:00 -0400

To me that’s why stereotypes and labels can be so damaging. People make these sweeping generalizations and have preconceived notions of what you’re supposed to be and of who you are based on a few tiny, little words. I think it’s important to actually get to know someone before you make generalizations.

ELLEN DEGENERES

Lord of the Flies (1954)

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 07:27:31 -0400

He could see a whiteness in the gloom near him so he grabbed it from Maurice and blew as loudly as he could. The assembly was shocked into silence. Simon was close to him, laying hands on the conch. Simon felt a perilous necessity to speak; but to speak in assembly was a terrible thing to him.

“Maybe,” he said hesitantly, “maybe there is a beast.”

The assembly cried out savagely and Ralph stood up in amazement.

“You, Simon? You believe in this?”

“I don’t know,” said Simon. His heartbeats were choking him. “But…”

The storm broke.

“Sit down!”

“Shut up!”

“Take the conch!”

“Sod you!”

“Shut up!”

Ralph shouted.

“Hear him! He’s got the conch!”

“What I mean is… maybe it’s only us.”

“Nuts!”

That was from Piggy, shocked out of decorum. Simon went on.

“We could sort of…”

Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind’s essential illness. Inspiration came to him.

“What’s the dirtiest thing there is?”

WILLIAM GOLDING

"The best love affairs are those we never had."

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 09:22:45 -0400

“The best love affairs are those we never had.”

- Norman Lindsay

A story about sex, but isn’t. Worth one or five hundred...

Wed, 11 Apr 2012 10:23:00 -0400

A story about sex, but isn’t. Worth one or five hundred mentions because, oh, these beautiful, broken people. I wanted more; I wanted to know who was Eric’s last love, who Wendy married, who received Brian’s first initiated kiss, if Neil died of old age or HIV. I don’t think I have ever felt that way at the end of a book.

And if you wish to be disturbed visually, there’s the film adaptation. With JGL’s adorable face, just sayin’.

Warning for homosexuality, so. Don’t want no drama >:(

Tweets

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 04:41:17 -0400

Me: Who's the douchebag calling from a private number? I'm not picking up.
Veenah: I'M THE DOUCHEBAG. SO PICK UP THE NEXT TIME, YOU IDIOT!

Laura Jansen // Use SomebodyWaging wars to shake the poet and...

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 08:42:00 -0400

Laura Jansen // Use Somebody
Waging wars to shake the poet and the beat.

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Tue, 06 Mar 2012 09:14:00 -0500

Clap… clap… clap… clap CLAP… CLAPCLAPCLAPCLAP.

Consequent parts here.

Chivalry, from "Are Women People?" (1915)

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 08:55:10 -0500

It’s treating a woman politely
As long as she isn’t a fright:
It’s guarding the girls who act rightly,
If you can be judge of what’s right;
It’s being - not just, but so pleasant;
It’s tipping while wages are low;
It’s making a beautiful present,
And failing to pay what you owe.

ALICE DUER MILLER

The Plagiarist’s Tale

Sun, 19 Feb 2012 01:45:34 -0500

The Plagiarist’s Tale:

Unexpectedly poignant.