January 2012
8 posts
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he...”
– Dead Poets Society, 1989 (via umbr-ellaaa)
December 2011
7 posts
10 Ways to Love Others →
daniellescruggs:
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thelittlesea:
Some guidelines for loving:
1. Tell them about their brilliance. They likely can’t see it and they don’t know its immensity, but you can see it, and you can illuminate it for them.
2. Be authentic, and give others the gift of the real you and a real relationship. Ask your real questions. Share your real beliefs. Go for your real dreams. Tell your...
“Be ignited, or be gone.”
– Mary Oliver, from “What I Have Learned So Far” (via the-final-sentence)
November 2011
7 posts
“‘We cannot sit this one out.’ During turbulent times, writers often ask...”
– http://htmlgiant.com/random/we-cant-sit-this-one-out/ (via specterlit)
“And once the storm is over you won’t remember how you made it through, how you...”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via enderkay)
“Today is made of yesterday, each time I steal
toward rites I do not know,...”
– Anne Sexton, from “The Lost Ingredient” (via the-final-sentence)
“The average life span of a transgendered person is twenty-three years. The...”
– Guernica / Trans-Formative Change
Dean Spade is the first openly trans law professor. Meaghan Winter interviews him for Granta.
H/T The Rumpus
FUCKING READ THIS SHIT. NEXT TIME ANYONE THINKS IT’S OKAY TO RAG ON TRANS* PEOPLE (BECAUSE LOLOL THEIR EXISTENCE IS JUST SO FUNNY, ISN’T IT FUNNY THAT...
October 2011
17 posts
“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the...”
– Alan Keightley (via monkeyknifefight)
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September 2011
12 posts
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“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place, I told him, like...”
– Azar Nafisi (via slekes)
nomorecoats:
They will say I smoked cigarettes and marijuana, cursed hoarse as a crow in all my languages and loved morphine and Demerol, tequila and pulque, women and men. I will shrug my illusion of shoulders and answer that I am a water woman, not a vessel, not something you can sail or charter. I am instead the tributary, the river, the fluid source, and the sea itself. I am all her rainy...
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“I’m not sentimental—I’m as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald; This Side of Paradise (via 52hearts)
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“You pretend that you love me and yet you won’t come—and I’ve...”
– The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall