February 2012
15 posts
“You know, she was four years old the first time she beat me at hide and seek....”
– I have been re-watching skins and I love it and Effy and it’s just as good if not better because now I have been to the UK and Bristol!
Skins (via kluhkhill)
“Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who...”
– Amy Poehler (via beatboxgoesthump)
.la douleur exquise.: A Sad Child →
misswallflower:
You’re sad because you’re sad. It’s psychic. It’s the age. It’s chemical. Go see a shrink or take a pill, or hug your sadness like an eyeless doll you need to sleep. Well, all children are sad but some get over it. Count your blessings. Better than that, buy a hat. Buy a coat or pet.
I want to eat her poetry and books so I can write like this.
“As for me, I am watercolor. I wash off.”
– Anne Sexton (via daisyblue)
I want to read every Anne Sexton poem.
“It’s easy to remember only the good parts of people if you never see them. Real...”
– Cynthia Lord, Touch Blue (via simply-quotes)
January 2012
32 posts
misswallflower:
“As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.”
― Anne Sexton
“Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is...”
– Sylvia Plath (via girlinlondon)
I don’t care I don’t care I don’t care I don’t CARE about these ESSAYS that I cannot possibly read enough for in the span of time I have to write them. I may as well not have attended a single lecture. THEM BRITS BE CRAZAY!
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the...”
– James Baldwin (via misswallflower)
I am the absolute best at drafting millions and millions of excuses in my head as to why I can’t do something rather than sitting down and just doing it. Maybe I should become one of those people who thinks the dividing line between one year and the next is actually a clean slate. Maybe then I would be furiously getting done all the things I should be doing instead of perusing the internet...
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman (via misswallflower)
December 2011
25 posts
found my New Year survey from 2009 so I'm doing...
2009 answers are first. Hard to believe this was a full two years ago!
1. What did you do in 2009 that you’d never done before? had a radio show, saw the majority of my favorite bands live, lived with one of my best friends, lost someone close to me, worked as a waitress.
In 2011 I traveled through Europe and all of the firsts that come along with that, saved the most money I’ve ever...
“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape....”
– Andrew Wyeth (via thesearepeopleyouknow)