November 2011
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Against The Grain Hudson (via yetibeats)
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“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”
– Arthur Miller (via kari-shma)
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“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
– Charles Bukowski (via riversforstreets)
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On the road: New York City (a retrospective)
Part I: Fight and Flight I left home in the strangest mood on Sunday. Part lack of sleep, part confusion, part anxiety, part denial. J left at some random hour after midnight and I’d gone to sleep thinking of maps. An hour later, I was awake, zipping up the suitcase, memorising subway lines and terminals and streets in Manhattan. There’s comfort in cartography, weight in direction.
My...
October 2011
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A Drop In The Ocean Ron Pope (via anasurprises)
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“I look at him, I lift my face and he lowers his. He looks at me, he moves a...”
– from ‘If Nobody Speaks Of Remarkable Things’ — Jon Mcgregor (via milkwoods)
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The worst start to anything, but still. A start.
Driving to Fitzroy through North Richmond has always been the strangest exercise. The traffic there is crazy - Victoria Street at any time of night, let alone a Friday. People were out in lots despite the cold — and it has been cold, compared to the thirty degree heat of the previous days. I picture it and just want to stay in bed.
Recently I made a decision, the consequences of which I am...
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“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.”
– from ‘The Go-Between’ — L. P. Hartley (via senseofchampagnechic)
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Head:heart ratio of people I know
Catrina: 60:40 Been: 95:5 Me: 30:70
Guess who has the messiest personal relationships?
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Friends, Lovers Or Nothing John Mayer
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“You’re always begging for things to love you, he said, as if you were a beggar...”
– from ‘Sons And Lovers’ — D.H. Lawrence (via helloluxlisbon)
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So much to do
1) Baby socks x2 (done) 2) Send thank you card 3) Drop attendance forms to Peter James 4) Flight booking 5) Email the people I haven’t emailed back in the last 6 months 6) Laundry 7) Vacuum my room 8) Spring clean 9) Pertussis vaccination 10) Hand over my work 11) Actually go to work regardless 12) Pay rent
September 2011
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Hold Me Jamie Grace (via ccceeee)
Such a happy...
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With friends like these, who needs lovers?
Melissa: You know they say 20-25% of us have are supposed to be sociopaths. If there were no societal pressure or good parenting they'd have no scruples about killing another human being. :S
Been: I think I'm one of the 20%. :S
Melissa: Hahaha. Please don't kill me.
Been: Lol!! But you're not the enemy!!!
Melissa: But say we're on a desert island and there's no food.
Been: I would never. My parents brought me up very well. I wouldn't be able to live with the guilty conscience anyway.
Melissa: Haha...but the point is, you'll live.
Been: It's ok. When it comes down to it, I'll make sure you'll live even if I have to kill myself.
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“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”
– from ‘Kafka On The Shore’ — Haruki Murakami
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Sunlight Bag Raiders (via afadzari)
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Now
I told you once when we were young that we would someday meet again. Now, the years flown past, the letters unwritten, I am not so certain. It is autumn. There are toothaches hidden in this wind, there are those determined to bring forth winter at any cost. I am resigned to dark blonde shadows at stoplights, lost in the roadmaps of leaves which point in every direction at once. But I am...
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“All night I streched my arms across him, rivers of blood, the dark woods,...”
– -from ‘Saying Your Names’ — Richard Siken (via sacrificum)
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Transitions
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The visiting consultant, Nancy, is flying back to China again this week. She greeted me with hugs in her last week, since I’d spent the weekend helping with her research statistics. She was constantly feeding me too. We’d just gone to dinner with one of her previous residents, and a cardiology resident and I am driving her back.
“You must be excited to see your son...
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Shake It Out Florence + The Machine
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The quiet world
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In an effort to get people to look into each other’s eyes more, the government has decided to allot each person exactly one hundred and sixty-seven words, per day. When the phone rings, I put it to my ear without saying hello. In the restaurant I point at chicken noodle soup. I am adjusting well to the new way. Late at night, I call my long distance lover and proudly say I...
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“His voice touches places inside me like something moving through a house,...”
– from ‘The White Darkness’ — Geraldine McCaughrean (via dailydoseofquotes)
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Little Too Much Natasha Bedingfield
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