February 2012
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From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally...
– Sebastian Faulks, The Girl At The Lion D’or (x)
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When your mother hits you, do not strike back. When the boys call asking your...
– “Unsolicited Advice to Adolescent Girls With Crooked Teeth and Pink Hair,” Jeanann Verlee (x)
One New York afternoon, when he came home from work, he found her sitting on the...
– The Dew Breaker, Edwidge Danticat (x)
Am I the only one who has never heard a child say “Where do babies come from?”
I am having American Horror Story withdrawals.
BON IVER WON BEST NEW ARTIST AND WITH THAT I CAN SLEEP PEACEFULLY
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songsforbirds:
W. Somerset Maugham once said that the trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties. That they spend too much of their time aching adjectives and bleeding sentences. But what else are we supposed to do? We want to write, but it’s not just writing to us. It’s pouring ourselves out, draining our bodies of everything we ever wanted to be, and then putting it on...
shesanargonaut:
Vivacious
They told me you got married today, placed an heirloom ring on her wanton finger and smiled to a camera held by a sweaty man with pudgy hands. I bet you forgot to brush your hair the right way, where every piece sticks up like a jagged halo, like a crown of thorns. I bet you combed it until it was flat, until the light behind your eyes finally dimmed. They told me that...