June 2011
26 posts
“There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.”
— Jonathan Safran Foer (via misswallflower)
“A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.”
—The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Facebook presents far more danger than the cultivation of lowercase first-person “i”s and emoticons :). The real threat posed by Facebook is not that it ruins writers’ ability to punctuate or encourages them to replace words with pictures. The problem with Facebook is that it nurtures one of writing teachers’ greatest foes — the teenage fantasy that writers write only to themselves and to those who are just like them.”
—Views: The Facebook Mirror - Inside Higher Ed (via infoneer-pulse)
“Growing old is unavoidable, but never growing up is possible. I believe you can retain certain things from your childhood if you protect them— certain traits, certain places where you don’t let the world go.”
—Johnny Depp (via johnnychristopherdepp)
Wistful
It’s sad when you realize how much better someone’s life is without you in it. How much better you are without them, too. Especially when you think of how much you really loved that person, regardless of the number of tears they’ve stolen from you or how inadequate they may have made you feel. Especially when you’re unsure that you’ll ever care that way again in your life. I would endure it all again if it meant getting that feeling back.
