February 2012
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I asked her to tell me about you, she said “not our son, my son,” I asked her to tell me about her son.
“I wouldn’t let anyone speak a foreign language in the apartment. But he still became you.”
“He became me?”
“Everything was Yes and No.”
“Did he go to college?”
“I begged him to stay close, but he went to California. In...
January 2012
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Anonymous asked: I wonder who that person is that shares all those beautiful quotes with us. Thank you stranger!
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“In real life, love has to be possible. Even if it is not returned right away,...”
– By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, Paulo Coelho
claeis asked: this blog was just what i needed right now. thank you.
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“You’re in a car with a beautiful boy, and he won’t tell you that he loves you,...”
– “You Are Jeff,” Richard Siken
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“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the...”
– The Giver, Lois Lowry
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“Maybe…you’ll fall in love with me all over again.”
“Hell,” I said, “I love you enough now. What do you want to do? Ruin me?”
“Yes. I want to ruin you.”
“Good,” I said. “That’s what I want too.”
— A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
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“The beauty of things must be that they end.”
– Jack Kerouac, Tristessa (via honeyforthehomeless)
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December 2011
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I wanted to hit him.
I wanted to hold him.
I wanted to shout myself into his ear.
I asked, So what happens now?
I don’t know.
Do you want to go home?
He flipped back to, I can’t.
Then you’ll go away?
He pointed at, I can’t.
Then we were out of options.
We sat there.
Things were happening around us, but nothing was happening between us.
Above us, the screens said which flights were...
November 2011
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I miss you always
when I go to the beach
the sand is wet with
tears that seem mine
although I never weep
and hold you in my
heart with a very real
humor you’d be proud of
— from “Morning,” Frank O’Hara
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“If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.”
– Death in the Afternoon, Ernest Hemingway
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“The train will be the same, the people, struggling for comfort and, even, dignity on the straight-backed, wooden, third- class seats will be the same, and I will be the same.”
GIOVANNI’S ROOM — JAMES BALDWIN
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“I was trapped because I did love him, but also now wanted to cause the most...”
– Dry, Augusten Burroughs
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“But one kiss levitates above all the others. The
intersection of function and...”
– “The Archipelago of Kisses,” Jeffrey McDaniel
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“I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better,...”
– The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are...”
– The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1
October 2011
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“With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.”
– Max Ehrmann, “Desiderata”
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“Maybe I was just being selfish, wanting to know his secret, whatever it was, the...”
– The Rose and The Beast, Francesca Lia Block
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“I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a...”
– Richard Siken, from Crush
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“Max stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye and sailed back over a year...”
– Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are (via the-final-sentence)
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“I love you, he thought, looking at Win. I love every part of you, every thought...”
– Seduce Me at Sunrise, Lisa Kleypas
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“If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late?”
– The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
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“Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think...”
– Timequake, Kurt Vonnegut
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“But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen...”
– By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, Paulo Coelho
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“I wanted him to hold me, to take care of me, to make the pain dissolve away. I...”
– Echo, Francesca Lia Block
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“It’s a wonder I’m even alive. Sometimes I think that. I think that I can’t...”
– Running With Scissors, Augusten Burroughs
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“But don’t go trying to use the same route twice. Indeed, don’t try...”
– The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
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“Look at the sky: that is for you. Look at each person’s face as you pass...”
– No One Belongs Here More Than You, Miranda July
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“Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time? My...”
– Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
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“It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because...”
– The Diary of a Young Girl, Anne Frank
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“When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I...”
– Paper Towns, John Green
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“I experienced car creepery at thirteen. I was walking home from middle school...”
– Bossypants, Tina Fey
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“Now we’d known each other for two years, the side of my calf was touching...”
– The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
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“After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it...”
– The Diaries of Adam and Eve, Mark Twain
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“It’s nonverbal: I need love. I need the thing that happens when your brain...”
– Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Dad had lost his job at the gypsum, and when Christmas came that year, we had no money at all. On Christmas Eve, Dad took each one of us kids out into the desert night one by one.
“Pick out your favorite star,” Dad said.
“I like that one!” I said.
Dad grinned, “That’s Venus,” he said. He explained to me that planets glowed because reflected light was...
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“Some things don’t last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a...”
– This Lullaby, Sarah Dessen
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“A Frenchman’s self-assurance stems from his belief that he is mentally and...”
– War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
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“There are moments when a kind of clarity comes over you, and suddenly you can...”
– Great House, Nicole Krauss
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“There are people whose deaths make you ache with sadness. And then there are...”
– Love Walked In, Marisa de los Santos
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“I looked at other couples and wondered how they could be so calm about it. They...”
– No One Belongs Here More Than You, Miranda July
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“She wasn’t in love but she would love him, if that would save her.”
– Black Water, Joyce Carol Oates
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“Every returning New Yorker asks the question: Is this still my city? I have a...”
– Super Sad True Love Story, Gary Shteyngart