March 2013
3 posts
“Take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your sunsets, your bad...”
– Margaret Atwood, Good Bones (via commovente)
January 2013
15 posts
We resembled each other like two drops of water, but we had two different reflections. -Salvador Dàli
Dead Horse
by Thomas Lux
At the fence line, I was about to call him in when,
at two-thirds profile, head down
and away from me, he fell first
to his left front knee
and then the right, and he was down,
dead before he hit the...
My father saw him drop, too,
and a neighbor, who walked over.
He was a good horse, old,
foundered, eating grass during the day
and his oats and hay
at night. He didn't...
“Physics says: go to sleep. Of course
you’re tired. Every atom in you
has been...”
– “The Sciences Sing a Lullaby,” Albert Goldbarth (via commovente)
“‘If the girl had been worth having she’d have waited for you?’ No, sir, the girl...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via thenightbeforethedayafter)
“You, the sleep I lose,
and the reason that pulls me
from the bed each day.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
“Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.”
– Sigmund Freud (via radhika-chandra)
“Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via ileu)
November 2012
11 posts
“[I cannot hear the song.]
This may still be my dream
but the night seems very...”
– Muriel Rukeyser, from “The Child in the Great Wood” (via the-final-sentence)
“[Anne,
who are you?]
Merely a kid keeping alive.”
– Anne Sexton, from “Baby Picture“ (thanks, litverve)
October 2012
1 post
“[The neon nears.] No one tells me what to believe
and for once I believe in...”
– Jennifer Militello, from “Interview Under Hypnosis” (via the-final-sentence)
September 2012
10 posts
“She may have looked normal on the outside, but once you’d seen her handwriting...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot (via wisdom-justiceandlove)
July 2012
6 posts
“What else could we ask of a simple little story?”
– Thomas C. Foster, from How to Read Literature Like a Professor (thank you, desperateyouthandpain)
June 2012
2 posts
May 2012
30 posts
