1. 24 November 2009
    “there are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.”
    Tim Robbins, Still Life of a Wood Pecker

    book human condition

  2. 23 November 2009
    “Fair warning, I thought. I should have told you from the start. I will let you down.”
    Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

    book disillusionment truth

  3. 23 November 2009
    “Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it in, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life’s bittersweet route.”
    Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

    book individual courage life

  4. 21 November 2009
    “I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.”
    John Green, Looking for Alaska

    book greatness ambition

  5. 13 November 2009
    “I wept at various pitches and velocities, using my wail to describe a devastating unhappiness that surprised us all. After the session, my three people hugged me, and within their tangle, I felt safe.”
    Miranda July, How to Tell Stories to Children from the collection No One Belongs Here More Than You

    book tears comfort

  6. 03 November 2009
    “She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls, if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hands all the time, as if they were afraid they’d bore you or something. Jane was different. We’d get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we’d start holding hands, and we won’t quite till the movie was over. And without changing the position or making a deal out of it. You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.”
    J.D Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

    book love crush

  7. 19 October 2009
    “He had decided, without consulting me, not to bring a flash on this trip. The flash is for weddings and funerals, he said. What needs to be photographed will be photographed.”
    Aleksander Hemon, The Lazarus Project (via thebronzemedal)

    photography book

  8. 10 October 2009
    “Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know. For me, the spark that turns an acquaintance into a friend has usually been kindled by some shared enthusiasm like detective novels or Ulysses S. Grant.”
    Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot

    book friendship

  9. 08 October 2009
    “The part that got me was, there was a lady sitting next to me that cried all through the goddamn picture. The phonier it got, the more she cried. You’d have thought she did it because she was kindhearted as hell, but I was sitting right next to her, and she wasn’t. She had this little kid with her that was bored as hell and had to go to the bathroom, but she wouldn’t take him. She kept telling him to sit still and behave himself. She was about as kindhearted as a goddamn wolf. You take somebody that cries their goddamn eyes out over phony stuff in the movies, and nine times out of ten they’re mean bastards at heart. I’m not kidding.”
    J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

    book tears authenticity

  10. 28 September 2009
    “If you feel betrayed by culture, it’s not because you’re right and the universe is fucked; it’s only because you’re not like most other people. But this should make you happy, because—in all likelihood—you hate other people, anyway. You are being betrayed by a culture that has no relationship to who you are or how you live. […] Don’t get pissed off over the fact that the way you feel about culture isn’t some kind of universal consensus. Because if you do, you will end up feeling betrayed. And it will be your own fault. You will feel bad, and you will deserve it.”
    Chuck Klosterman, IV: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas

    book culture anger