January 2011
37 posts
If we must die—let it not be like hogs
Hunted & penned in an inglorious...
– If we must die, Claude Mckay
Because the things you’re scared of are usually the most worthwhile.
To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used...
– Arundhati Roy (via quote-book)
Some things are worth getting your heart broken for.
– Sarah Jane Smith, Doctor Who. (via owlssayhooot)
Vigilante nuns, idiosyncratic serial killers, the afterlife of Howard Hughes,...
– Quiet Lightning on the Noisy Mountain
Of course, the human losses of today’s attacks in Arizona are immeasurably...
– NY Times
But occasionally, when it’s quiet and I am alone, I feel a twinge, a yearning. I...
– S.W. in Michigan, from The Sun October 2010
And, of course, that is what all of this is - all of this: the one song, ever...
– Nick Tosches, Where Dead Voices Gather
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...
– Neil Gaiman
That’s the thing about the Earth: It doesn’t stop to acknowledge the daily...
– The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch