August 2009
93 posts
“One day I went to work and Grace was at her desk and she was crying. I asked...”
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- Alyssa Brugman, Finding Grace
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the...”
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- Franz Kafka
“God Only Knows” - The Beach Boys
“It amazes me sometimes what humans can do, even when streams are flowing down...”
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- Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
The Office
Pam: Okay, get to the good part.
Jim: Okay, so this morning we are having breakfast together, and I just looked up from my cereal and I said, "You know what I wanna do today? I wanna marry you."
Pam: I had just woken up, I didn't even look cute. That's how I knew he meant it.
The Archipelago of Kisses
We live in a modern society. Husbands and wives don’t grow on trees, like in the old days. So where does one find love? When you’re sixteen it’s easy, like being unleashed with a credit card in a department store of kisses. There’s the first kiss. The sloppy kiss. The peck. The sympathy kiss. The backseat smooch. The we shouldn’t be doing...
“Don’t I Hold You” - Wheat
“Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for...”
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- Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
Growing Up
One of my wings beat faster,
I couldn’t help it the one away from the light. It hurt to be told all the time how I loved that terrible flame.
- William Stafford
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature’s first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
- Robert Frost
“‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand.’ First single. Fucking brilliant. ...”
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- Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist
“Wonderwall” - Ryan Adams
“Tell me the truth frank, remember that? We used to live by it. And you know...”
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- Revolutionary Road
“Again I take a taxi to Clichy address, but feel that I do not want to go on...”
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- Anaïs Nin, Incest
“Into Dust” - Mazzy Star
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used...”
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- Arundhati Roy
