January 2012
25 posts
“To be sure, my solution is not the ideal. But when you don’t like your own...”
– Albert Camus, The Fall, 106
“I’m praying that you’ll buy ON THE ROAD and make a movie of it. Don’t worry...”
– Beginning of letter by Kerouac to Marlon Brando (via fuckyeahbeatgeneration)
“If it is right, it happens—The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets...”
– John Steinbeck (via rulesformyunbornson)
winter by john burnside
Imagine i loved you still and nights like these were visitations,
An endless pentecost of lips and hands
And bodies resurrected in their beds,
Not mine, or yours, but given, like a snowfall.
Out in the dark, the woods are from a map
That someone has left unfinished: hand-coloured signs
For birch, or deer, and nothing to explain
The new red of a kill, or how the silence
Wells around a...
“It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With...”
– Carson McCullers (via psychotherapy)
meditations on the city
If I believed all the movies and the songs I’d have to believe every person in their 20s is wondering around to strings and streetlamps and still water waiting for the one they love. Why not try loving someone who actually wants to find you.
Zooey Deschanel once said (in character as always) “love doesnt exist. Its just fantasy.” My whole life is fantasy, what’s new?
December 2011
29 posts
“It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate’s so easy compared.”
– Jack Kerouac, Big Sur (via fuckyeahbeatgeneration)
Fuck you
reduced appetite
increased tiredness
reduced libido
increased anxiety
Oh, if ex-boyfriends get famous before I do, Imma...
