March 2013
3 posts
February 2013
11 posts
I AM VERY CURIOUS. EVERY DAY, I SAY: WHAT AM I GOING TO LEARN TODAY AND WHOM AM...
– Azzedine Alaïa to the New York Times. Like Azzedine, let’s strive to be curiouser and curiouser (to quote from Alice in Wonderland) everyday. Don’t settle for the safe, the mundane, or the expected. That is all. (via evachen212)
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January 2013
35 posts
Life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.
– John Green (via andrugynous)
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It’s clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a...
– Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County (via larmoyante)
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way...
– Kurt Vonnegut (via larmoyante)
They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a...
– Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake (via larmoyante)
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Spring Break '13 →
Istanbul/Antalya, Greece, then splitting a villa on the Amalfi Coast twelve ways. Claire, if you’re reading this, you need to come!
I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.
– Amy Tan, Saving Fish from Drowning (via frism)
It’s not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard, she...
– Shauna Nieguist (via theflowershop)
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Do suburbanites everywhere feel the total and...
Or that I’ve been feeling these past two and a half weeks?
Why can’t I just get my lazy ass up and away from my TV/laptop and do something worthwhile and intellectually stimulating? Like, oh, I don’t know, hunker down with a good novel, or apply to some jobs, or some scholarships, or read the news even!
Oh well, that can wait until next week, I guess. Shit, I still have to...
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There has been a whole lot
of awkward tension in my house lately. Well, not so much, but a little more than the usual, and it all started over—can you guess?—money. Literally, the root of all problems.
I want to take a 3-credit class over the summer, and my mom’s against it. I can see why—it’s roughly $3,000 that: (1) won’t be covered by scholarships; and (2) is needed to be spent about...
Hope and curiosity about the future seemed better than guarantees. The unknown...
– Hedy Lamarr (via cavum)
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This is my first post in months
And I’m sorry! But I’ve been really busy—and a little uninspired these days. Also, two of my courses last semester were writing-intensive, so I spent all my energy on keeping up with that—anyway, I’m done with the excuses, but a few things I’ve noticed after a lengthy break from posting:
(1) All my entries in the past are so CHEESY! and
(2) My blog is in...
December 2012
1 post