January 2011
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Tumblr is now officially a weekend sport.
I’m exhausted enough to die. Fuck 16 credit hours of graduate classes and a teaching internship. Fuck it like I’ve been in prison.
How do people, like, not curse? How is it possible? There are these gaps in...
– A Long Way Down, Nick Hornby (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
John Steinbeck could've made an honest woman out...
I dreamt of her again.
We were sitting outside on a curb. A girl was there with her; I didn’t know her. She wasn’t attractive, but I could tell my girl was enchanted by her. We stared at each other with tinges of envy. My girl held my hand, and the homely girl winced, saying “So you’re with her now?” My girl said she was with no one, and I smiled, kissing the...
Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow...
I’ve hardly described you as anything other than a siren, and you know that I’m well read. I named you aptly from the start. Like Adam, sewing his garden full of doom.
You sing for your maiden because you are lonely, but we both know I’m not your Persephone. She isn’t coming back for you. She dwells in that city removed, and she does not hear your songs in her sleep. ...
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Do you take pride in your hurt? Does it make you seem large and tragic? …...
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden