Remember that one time we decided to cook something, or maybe we were baking chocolate chip cookies, I don’t remember, and we had Michael Jackson blasting on the CD player, and we were dancing around the kitchen? That was fun.
June 2011
116 posts
“I know from your letters and from seeing you after your play that you feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that’s okay that’s alright because we’re all meant to be like that at twenty-four. In fact our whole generation is like that. I read an article about it, it’s because we never fought in a war or watched too much television or something. Anyway, the only people with oars and rudders and aims are dreary bores and squares and careerists….”
—One Day, David Nicholls
“That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it and think how different its course would have been. Pause, you who read this, and think for a long moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on that memorable day.”
—Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.”
—Andrew Boy
The Very Thought of You (1)
Billie Holiday
Billie Holiday - The Very Thought of You
“Kiss me and you’ll know how important I am.”
—Sylvia Plath
“Because he has been a major part of your life, of course you’ll miss him; it’s perfectly normal. It’s like getting a tooth pulled out; after the dentist pulls it out you’re relieved. But how many times does your tongue run itself over the spot where the tooth once was? Probably a hundred times a day. Just because it was hurting you does not mean you don’t notice it. It leaves a gap, and sometimes you see yourself missing it terribly. It’s going to take awhile, but it takes time. Should you have kept the tooth? No, because it was causing you pain. Pulling the tooth was the right decision, but it’s going to hurt.”
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I can’t value one person’s life over another person’s, no matter who it is. It’s not right, don’t do it.
I'll Be Seeing You
Billie Holiday
I’ll Be Seeing You by Billie Holiday.
