May 2012
22 posts
“In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you...”
– C. S. Lewis
There is beauty in the grand gestures. The kinds of acts that make movie audiences blush and sigh those deep sighs of longing and sweet satisfaction. The ones that fill our photo albums to remain enshrined on coffee tables as talismans forever. These are the memorable things and these are good things.
But there is something about the quiet moments that can so easily pass without notice from those...
“Cussing doesn’t come from a lack of vocabulary – I know all the other words....”
– Anis Mojgani
“If you can’t say anything nice about anyone else, come sit next to me.”
– Gertrude Stein
April 2012
21 posts
“I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.”
– Michelle Williams
“No good at life, but very funny sometimes with the commentary.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
I’m not really the kind of writer who can normally just type and not think. Things that manifest in words are normally an outpouring of lots of thought; they’ve been rolled over and over hundreds of times and by the time they reach the fingertips they’re more or less refined as much as they’re going to be.
But it’s cool to see what happens when this process is...
“I was within and without, simultaneausly enchanted and repelled by the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“We’re all lonely for something we don’t know we’re lonely for. How else to...”
– David Foster Wallace (via skeletales)
Escapist - Never
He is no fugitive - escaped, escaping. No one has seen him stumble looking back. His fear is not behind him but beside him On either hand to make his course perhaps A crooked straightness yet no less a straightness. He runs face forward. He is a pursuer. He seeks a seeker who in his turn seeks Another still, lost far into the distance. Any who seek him seek in him the seeker. His life is...
March 2012
17 posts
