February 2012
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I come home to find that my mother has stocked up our fridge with Ghirardelli squares and World’s Finest chocolates
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dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
adj. entranced and unsettled by the vastness of the universe, experienced in a jolt of recognition that the night sky is not just a wallpaper but a deeply foreign ocean whose currents are steadily carrying off all other castaways, who share our predicament but are already well out of earshot—worlds and stars who would’ve been lost entirely except for the scrap of...
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
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“I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not...”
– James Kavanaugh
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dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. a kind of melacholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details—raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee—which leads to a dawning awareness of the haunting fragility of life, a mood whose only known cure is the vuvuzela.
“Be humble for you are made of earth.
Be noble for you are made of stars.”
– Serbian Proverb
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this weekend has truly been a great experience, because well
I got to get albany, ga
No parentals
I got to get of albany, ga
I came out of my comfort zone
I got to get out of albany, Ga.
I spent the last two days with some of the funniest, most amazing people
I spent the last two days with people who actually think being on an academic decathlon team is cool and hold intellectual...
“I felt a tremendous distance between me and everything real.”
– Hunter S. Thompson
“The way her body existed only where he touched her. The rest of her was smoke.”
– Arundhati Roy
frecklescollide:
some people, i think, are just born with stars in their eyes.
“There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small...”
– Wintergirls, Laurie Halse Anderson
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“I’m not going to let you sit here all by yourself, alone, even if you...”
– my friend, the great Evan Drew
“A truth should exist,
it should not be used
like this. If I love you
is that...”
– Margaret Atwood