February 2012
48 posts
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“Growing up won’t bring us down.”
– The Maine, Growing Up
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“Sitting there in your pajamas & all the time in the world & if I could...”
– Brian Andreas
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“At the beauty of what she had stumbled onto, at the fear that something terrible...”
– Rebecca Wells,Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
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“THE LIBRARY, like the book, is under assault by the new technologies, which...”
– Leon Wieseltier (via thebronzemedal)
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“Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be...”
– Fred Rogers
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“I felt tired for the first time, and I thought of us lying down on some grassy...”
– John Green, Paper Towns
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“and he suddenly knew that if she killed herself, he would die. Maybe not...”
– Jodi Picoult
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“My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”
– Wilkie Collins
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“Fiction is the only way I can even begin to twist my lying memories into...”
– John Green
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“I wanted adventures. I wanted to go up the Nung river to the heart of darkness...”
– Anthony Bourdain, A Cook’s Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
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The West Wing: Standing Up
Ainsley (Emily Procter): Mr. McGarry, I loathe almost everything you believe in. [stands up]
Leo (John Spencer): Where are you going?
Ainsley (Emily Procter): I'm not going anywhere, I'm standing up, which is how one speaks in opposition in a civilized world.
Leo (John Spencer): Well, you go, girl.
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“The more I see, the less I know for sure.”
– John Lennon
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“I didn’t want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via scout)
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“You know that this isn’t the end so hang on”
– Weezer, Hang On
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“At some point, as Richard keeps telling me, you gotta let go and sit still and...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
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“I would love you as a bird loves flight, as meat loves salt, as a dog loves...”
– Gut Symmetries, Jeanette Winterson (via helplesslyamazed)
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“Actually that was all just a test to see how you respond to crazy people, and...”
– John Cusack, Must Love Dogs
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“Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we...”
– Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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“When you love someone /
and you bite your tongue /
all you get is a mouth full...”
– Fruit Bats
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“I don’t know that Paolo’s the love of my life, but I’ve...”
– Brittany Murphy, Love and Other Disasters
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“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without...”
– George Sand
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“One of the secrets, and pleasures, of cooking is to learn to correct something...”
– Julia Child, My Life in France
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“The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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“‘I don’t feel very much like Pooh today,’ said Pooh.
‘There...”
– A.A. Milne, Winnie-The-Pooh
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“Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always...”
– Tom Waits (via thebronzemedal)
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“Being single doesn’t necessarily mean one is not wanted. In many cases it...”
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“Being in a relationship, that’s something you choose. Being friends,...”
– John Green and David Levithan , Will Grayson, Will Grayson
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“For you, a thousand times over.”
– Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
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“A bolt of warmth, fierce with joy and pride and gratitude, flashed through me...”
– Jim Butcher, Proven Guilty
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“When [he] kisses you he isn’t doing anything else. You’re his whole...”
– Jon Troast
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“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
– C.S. Lewis
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“…[she] deeply felt the daytime absence of her friend, the one person with...”
– Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
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“We build too many walls and not enough bridges.”
– Isaac Newton
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“The best principles of our republic secure to all its citizens a perfect...”
– Thomas Jefferson
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Sports Night: the breakup
Sabrina Lloyd : I broke up with YOU, Mr. "Obviously has a short-term memory loss with a myriad of other problems which I won't even go into but thinks he broke up with me because of the short-term memory loss which is so obvious".
Joshua Malina: No need to be formal. I've seen you naked. Call me Jeremy
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“Sometimes the only way is jumping, I hope you’re not afraid of heights.”
– Gavin DeGraw, Meaning
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“What a slut time is. She screws everybody.”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (via julieheartsbooks)
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“I think I’m greedy, but I’m not greedy for money – I think that can be a burden...”
– David Hockney (via nextness)
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“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
– Truman Capote
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“Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with...”
– Lemony Snicket, The Bad Beginning
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“I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful...”
– Rita Mae Brown
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“I considered her my ally, because, like me, she was imperfect.”
– Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
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“As soon as you’re born you start dying /
So you might as well have a good...”
– Cake, Sheep Go to Heaven
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“I like being a mess. It’s who I am.”
– Calista Flockhart, Ally McBeal
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“The truth is you already know what it’s like. You already know the...”
– David Foster Wallace, Oblivion: Stories
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“We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix...”
– Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli
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“If you’re in a relationship when you leave high school, let her go, man....”
– Josh Ruben
(via joshruben)
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“Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are,...”
– H. Jackson Brown Jr. (via creatingaquietmind)