May 2013
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Random thought: Blood to vampires must taste like dark chocolate covered pretzels in liquid form. Mmmmm that salty sweet goodness…
[the result of reading Anne Rice while munching on aforementioned item]
April 2013
3 posts
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Rawr—the power of a ten minute nap. I am alive again, world!
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I could get drunk on this feeling of Not-pain. Oh Pain Pills: thou art my hero this blessed hour.
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The decisions we make are all guided by the truths we believe in.
January 2013
1 post
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Warm toasty beds in wintertime are such loveliness.
December 2012
3 posts
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“I hear the Savior say,
“Thy strength indeed is small,
Child of weakness,...”
– Elvina Hall/John Grape, “I Hear the Savior Say”
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When I find myself dreading change and loitering in comfortable familiarity; I just need to remember autumn, and all those pretty colors I would miss out on.
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“A big part of serious fiction’s purpose is to give the reader, who like all of...”
– David Foster Wallace
November 2012
9 posts
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I wish I could take a picture of a song.
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I think an art museum is like a kind of portal that transports our minds. For a while, we are taken out of our own bodies and our own world, into the artist’s—van Gogh’s, or Kandinsky’s, or Degas’. We see a world that they saw, along with all the glamour or distortion that their minds might have imagined; and we see it as our reality. And in those few moments, as we...
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A Clear Midnight
This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done. Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best. Night, sleep, and the stars.
-Walt Whitman
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“Only in silence the word,
only in dark the light,
only in dying life:
bright...”
– Ursula K. LeGuin, A Wizard of Earthsea
October 2012
2 posts
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“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning how to dance...”
– Vivian Greene
July 2012
1 post
June 2012
5 posts
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Thoughts on Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
The narrator, Kathy, tells this story—her story—so calmly. Even from the beginning though, there was a feeling that something wasn’t quite right. And as I found out the secret, or the thing-that-everyone-knows-but-doesn’t-really-know, the feeling of wrongness intensified.
It’s slowly revealed that Hailsham (the school...
lazybookreviews:
Mom: Are you going to chug that bottle of water? Me: The best way to carry water is in your body. Mom: Is that a survival thing? Me: Now I’m thinking it’s from ‘Dune,’ and only works if you’re wearing a stillsuit.
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Summer days—licking ice cream from an ice cream cone while strolling down the street. Love :]
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made a radioactive omelette today. yummm….
May 2012
8 posts
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first day of nuclear pharmacy internship-
preceptor: choosing this rotation means that you are officially weird. but don’t worry, i’m weird too.
me: um…that’s comforting…i think?
“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did...”
– William Wilberforce (via myquotelibrary)
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Is it better to forget and smile or to remember and be sad?
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“I wish the ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
So do...”
– Frodo and Gandalf
April 2012
5 posts
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They say crying doesn’t solve anything, but it sure makes me feel better.
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There is nothing so therapeutic as listening to the patter of raindrops.
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“When your words came, I ate them.”
– Jeremiah 15:16
March 2012
4 posts
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Listen to the MUSTN’TS, child, Listen to the DON’TS Listen to the SHOULDN’TS The IMPOSSIBLES, the WONT’S Listen to the NEVER HAVES Then listen close to me- Anything can happen, child, ANYTHING can be
-Shel Silverstein
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“…but where sin increased, grace increased all the more…”
– Romans 5:20
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February 2012
6 posts
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“I need Thy presence every passing hour;
What but Thy grace can foil the...”
– Henry F. Lyte, “Abide With Me”
When you accidentally make something rhyme..... →
The 100 Most Beautiful Words in English →
Ailurophile A cat-lover. Assemblage A gathering. Becoming Attractive. Beleaguer To exhaust with attacks. Brood To think alone. Bucolic In a lovely rural setting. Bungalow A small, cozy cottage. Chatoyant Like a cat’s eye. Comely Attractive. Conflate To blend together. Cynosure A focal point of admiration. Dalliance A brief love affair. Demesne Dominion, territory. Demure Shy and reserved....
