August 2012
16 posts
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peternyc:
Money Cat Charm
There are no typos in the title.
Last night my mom calls me and we do our usual catch up.
I ask how she is, how everyone else is and she asks me how my work is going.
“I have to tell you something” she says.
Yesterday while picking up some food at a local restaurant,…
“She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, “I sometimes think that...”
– Haruki Murakami (Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: 24 Stories)
“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”
– Paulo Coelho, Alchemist (via blua)
“Yes; and it was not darkness that fell from the air. It was brightness.”
– James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (thanks, opheliasings) (via proustitute)
“Central to living a life that is good, is a life that’s forgiving. We’re...”
– David Rackoff in Half Empty, performed as ”Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace” in This American Life’s “Frenemies” episode, Sept 2009 (via The Daily Beast)
The Dark Side of Geek Feminism « Nice Girls Like... →
thisfeliciaday:
So do you have to take all your sexuality away in order to be taken seriously as a woman? That doesn’t seem right.
“Maybe we’re on Mars because of the magnificent science that can be done there -...”
– Carl Sagan
A message to future Martian settlers, appropriate today as we have wandered there, yet again. Hear the full beautiful message at the link.
(via melodicnotes)
“The more I live the more I think
two people together is a miracle.”
– Adrienne Rich (via potentialitea)
“I guess when you’re young you just believe there’ll be many people...”
– Celine, from Before Sunset
“How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and,...”
– RIP, celebrated author, screenwriter, and political activist Gore Vidal. Above quote from Julian: A Novel. (via explore-blog)
“So I sent an email to 7 of my friends, including Sarah, and I said, ‘Does anyone...”
– John Green on how he asked out his wife for the first time (via bstinsons) 