January 2012
38 posts
1 tag
“Numerous historians and political scientists have documented that the war on...”
– Michelle Alexander on President Reagan’s War On Drugs. [complete interview here] (via nprfreshair)
i will wade out till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness in the sleeping curves of my body Shall enter fingers of smooth mastery with...
“All of this is typical girl-fear. Once you realize that The Exorcist is,...”
– Rookie, The Season of the Witch
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension,...”
– Anais Nin
“People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of...”
– Neil Gaiman
“The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make a heaven of hell, a hell of...”
– Milton, Paradise Lost (via selfinspiration)
December 2011
35 posts
Not a tree but the tree we saw, it will never exist, split by the wind and bending down like that again. What will push out of the earth later, making it summer, will not be grass, leaves, repetition, there will have to be other words. When my eyes close language vanishes. The cat with the divided face, half black half orange nests in my scruffy fur coat, I drink tea, fingers curved around the...
“When things don’t work out in life, that’s out of your control, but you have a...”
– Anaïs Escobar
“You are part of my existence, part of myself. You have been in every line I have...”
– Charles Dickens (Great Expectations)
“There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. Their place...”
– Sara Zarr
“I think, that if I touched the earth,
It would crumble;
It is so sad and...”
– Dylan Thomas