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“Dear A,

Maybe you feel like it has been a waste to have spent your life practicing for what turns out to be nothing. But you are lucky in some ways because you will know what it is like to die, and the rest of us will spend our lives wondering. I know that this isn’t comforting at all, but I’m sure you’ll be getting enough of that from others, and soon it will stop meaning anything. So I want to talk to you about your dying. I know you have envisioned your own funeral before. People missing you. People make the most impact on the lives of others by being absent.”

– ‘All Souls’ by Christine Schutt

June 5, 2012

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The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Albert Camus

March 3, 2012

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“Literature could turn you into an asshole; he’d learned that teaching grad-school seminars. It could teach you to treat real people the way you did characters, as instruments of your own intellectual pleasure, cadavers on which to practice your critical faculties.”

– ‘The Art of Fielding,’ by Chad Harbach

February 25, 2012

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the difference between her oldest and youngest sons according to my mother.

“whereas you, everywhere you go you want a book with you – he needs a ball with him.”

February 22, 2012

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“Every day is a war. Yes, yes it was. The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”

– Epictetus, via ‘The Art of Fielding’ by Chad Harbach

February 18, 2012

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“With Jack’s love, everything Vivi had not been given could now be made up for. Every reflection of herself that was not mirrored in her mother’s eyes, every curious question her father had not asked, every visitation of the belt on her true-blonde skin could be redeemed. Vivi did not think of these promises on that afternoon with her skirt swirling and her hair swinging, but they curled inside her and attached themselves.

To look at Vivi, it would be difficult to spot the tectonic shift that took place in her that afternoon. But it would render her more vulnerable than a person wants to be. It would create infinitesimal fault lines, perhaps profound enough to be passed on, like brown eyes or a proclivity for mathematics.”

“The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood” by Rebecca Wells

December 12, 2011

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i don’t even want to be sexual, i just want to sleep next to him because he’s so pretty. it’s like when you buy a barbie doll and it’s so pretty so you sleep with it.

jasper

October 16, 2011

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“The observations and encounters of a man of solitude and few words are at once more nebulous and more intense than those of a gregarious man, his thoughts more ponderable, more bizarre and never without a hint of sadness. Images and perceptions that might easily be dismissed with a glance, a laugh, an exchange of opinions occupy him unduly; they are heightened in the silence, gain in significance, turn into experience, adventure, emotion. Solitude begets originality, bold and disconcerting beauty, poetry. But solitude can also beget perversity, disparity, the absurd and the forbidden.”

– “Death in Venice” by Thomas Mann

December 23, 2010

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did you know clothes were only invented by sin?

obed cundangan, on why he prefers to be clad in as little as possible

December 13, 2010

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I go to seek a Great Perhaps.

Francois Rabelais via ‘Looking for Alaska’ by John Green

November 24, 2010

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yeah, so i grabbed his head and stuck it against my crotch until he liked it.

obed cundangan, on being irresistible (I WAS JUST KIDDING)

November 13, 2010

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“My mother was strong, in all the ways I was weak. She fell, she hurt, she felt. She lived. And for all the tumble of her experiences, she still had hope. Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you would never know.”

– ‘this lullaby’ by sarah dessen

November 11, 2010

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Their faces were the way women’s faces are when they’ve been talking about you behind your back and they think you’ve heard: embarrassed, but also a little defiant, as if it were their right.

“The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood

October 27, 2010

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you need to nurture your little love flower. you need to give it enough water and enough sunshine and enough room to grow. oh, and enough co2.

elaha

October 25, 2010

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His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.

“Persuasion” by Jane Austen

October 18, 2010

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the difference between her oldest and youngest sons according to my mother.