December 2009
“Just as the nature of briars
is to tear flesh,
I have...”
– William Carlos Williams, The Ivy Crown
November 2009
“And we are put on earth a little space, that we may learn to bear the beams of...”
– William Blake
“Because, in truth, I didn’t become a writer the first time I put pen to...”
– Junot Diaz
[can’t remember if I already have this one, but it’s a good one, especially on the last day of NaNoWriMo]
“A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and...”
– P. L. Travers
“Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you...”
– Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
“To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is...”
– Mary Oliver
“People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.”
– Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
91% of Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving Day.
ohyeahfacts:
(source)
Proud to be in the nine percent. Yes for vegans.
“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“God never gives us discernment so that we may criticize, but that we may...”
– Oswald Chambers
“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a...”
– Anne Lamott
The Fallen
itsjustmeemily:fuckyeahstars:
She wasn’t what they called her.
Read them over, the stories. Of battle scars she has never worn. Of loving what was not hers to love. Of innocence lost, over what? Words scattered clumsily like in a drunken stupor. Read them over. She thought she was her name.
It all began with a girl who mistook herself for a star.
“The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and...”
– Elbert Hubbard
“The success of love is in the loving—it is not in the result of loving. Of...”
– Mother Teresa
