May 2013
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May 20th
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[[MORE]] I have had eight blood noses and three anxiety attacks in the last 10 days over my new university application. I just need someone to literally sit down with a cup of tea, not be afraid of my emotions, stop me from making excuses, and work through every segment with me. I’ve tried starting my application three times today and have burst into tears every time my pen hits the page. I...
May 20th
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selfdoubtandsyphilis: dankestrnemes: do animals think in english or in the sounds they make this is what yahoo paid $1.1 billion for
May 20th
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NINETY-FIVE GRIEVANCES TO GOD: ABRIDGED
After Martin Luther 1. Children are capable of feeling both shame and abandonment. 14. My father lives alone. Also, a hawk killed his dog and you expect me to believe in mercy. 20. Good things happen to bad people. 47. One day, every person I have ever loved will die and the only option you have given me is to just sit by and watch it happen or hope I am the first to go. 48. Speaking of...
May 20th
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May 20th
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May 20th
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May 20th
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May 20th
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can someone please explain what the hell tonight’s episode of Mad Men was
May 19th
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“It seems that Australia is dominated by a parochial, racist and colonialist...”
– Christos Tsiolkas, The Toxicity of Smugness
May 19th
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May 19th
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-nerada: vvrathia: the sexual tension when u and ur crush are online on fb at the same time and u just stare at their lil green dot and suddenly you know what gatsby felt like
May 19th
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have you ever fallen off a ladder and landed in a splits position have you ever tried to tell a group of people that you have fallen off a ladder in a splits position and have hurt your groin have you ever tried to tell a group of people that you have fallen off a ladder in a splits position and have hurt your groin while a bag of peas slowly numbs/defrosts between your legs I really hope not
May 19th
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commovente: How beautiful this all is — the language between bodies. Not touching, necessarily. Not speaking, really. What I’m trying to talk about is the conversation that falls into that empty ether between human beings. What I love, even more than falling in love, is falling in love with that space — with that quiet, precious, virgin sanctity between two people who are too scared to talk...
May 19th
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Song On The Subway
by Oscar Vuong Rush-hour on the A rain. A blind man   staggers forth, his cane tapping lightly own the aisle. He leans against the door, raises a violin to chin, and says I’m sorry   to bother you, folks. But please. Just listen.   And it kills me, the word sorry. As if something like music should be forgiven. He nuzzles into the wood like a lover,   inhales, and at the first slow stroke, the...
May 19th
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Penitent
by CJ Stevens Long ago my knuckles mended, and I forgot how to want to clash again. I was once hipshot and erratic, but now I’m glass, the slicked leavings of earth. Oils from hands mar me no more than a smudge. I’ll not melt for a thousand years. I’ll not shatter but for fire or force. I’ve realized there’s no glory in pliancy, no succor in the softness of clay or...
May 19th
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whiskey-memories: bras are so expensive like i didn’t choose the boob life the boob life chose me
May 19th
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May 18th
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I fell in love with a girl who picked flowers instead of arguments and had no time for bad things because she so carefully curled herself against them. you were summer recklessness but you always had these two rules : stay with me and dont become a ghost again.
May 18th
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May 18th
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May 18th
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Lyle Li's College Essay →
youmightfindyourself: While resting comfortably in my air-conditioned bedroom one hot summer night, I received a phone call from my mom. She asked me softly, “Lyle, can you come down and clean up the restaurant?” Slightly annoyed, I put on my sandals and proceeded downstairs. Mixing the hot water with cleaning detergents, I was ready to clean up the restaurant floor. Usually the process was...
May 18th
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“It feels good to think about you when I’m warm in bed. I feel as if you’re...”
– Haruki Murakami
May 18th
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I’m apparently going to the Opera with Caitlin tonight? I have never seen an opera before outside of The Phantom of the Opera with Emily Rossum on DVD and I’m pretty sure I fell asleep? I thought it was going to be expensive but apparently Opera’s aren’t for royalty in rich boxes in France and while living on the Frankston line it’s all okay? Opera?
May 17th
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For Lenya on Her Way
by Carrie Murphy The intimidation of the ocean which is nothing compared to escalators which are nothing compared to riding your bike in a miniskirt, banjoing along the road as the vee of your turquoise underwear is there & then not there, men looking & then not looking, which is nothing compared to driving alone in a strange state while a bass drum of hurricane gallops over, rain...
May 17th
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May 17th
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nomadmanifesto:  I love lipstick. I want to write an essay about the politics of lipstick. i like lipstick that’s deep, deep red. I like lipstick that’s purple, lipstick that’s black and dark for when I want to dress up my melancholy. I like sharing lipstick with sisters. and I laugh at boys that think I wear lipstick for them to notice, I laugh, lipstick is an art you can’t ever understand....
May 17th
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“Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood.”
– Mary Rakow
May 17th
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“Alone is walking along a street, just you and your city, taking things in that...”
– Chelsea Fagan, The Difference Between Alone and Lonely
May 17th
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May 15th
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“The six years I was with Miles, we never talked about music. We never had a...”
– Wayne Shorter
May 14th
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May 14th
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May 14th
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“There’s also no room for cleverness in our models of masculinity or femininity....”
– Why Australia hates thinkers (via carapatricia)
May 13th
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May 13th
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“All the poets that you love listening to love lying to you. I’m not that...”
– Chad Anderson, Liars, All of Us
May 13th
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“I wanted to write this to tell other women that the decision to have a...”
– Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy (via andherimagination)
May 13th
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“If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you...”
– Roald Dahl
May 13th
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“I’m not telling you to make the world better, because I don’t think that...”
– Joan Didion
May 12th
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May 11th
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“When I went back to working in an office after years of not, I could suddenly...”
– Emily Gould in her blog
May 10th
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May 10th
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Waiting for This Story to End Before I Begin...
by Jan Heller Levi All my stories are about being left, all yours about leaving. So we should have known. Should have known to leave well enough alone; we knew, and we didn’t. You said let’s put our cards on the table, your card was your body, the table my bed, where we didn’t get till 4 am, so tired from wanting what we shouldn’t that when we finally found our heads, we’d lost our minds. Love, I...
May 10th
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“Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There’s a strong streak of...”
– David Foster Wallace
May 10th
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May 10th
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“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does...”
– Maya Angelou
May 10th
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andrewgibby: Don’t google your name.  Ever.    Don’t “search” for yourself on anything that glows in the dark. Don’t let your beauty be something anyone can turn off. Don’t edit your ugly out of your bio. Let your light come from the fire. Let your pain be the spark, but not the timber. Remember, you didn’t come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in.
May 9th
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“I love you’ means that I accept you for the person that you are, and that I do...”
– Jonathan Safron Foer 
May 9th
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