January 2009
7 posts
“I took a turn to myself
And I was surprised because I saw everyone who ever I...”
– Belle and Sebastian, “We Are the Sleepyheads”
“Human beings pass me on the street, and I want to reach out and strum them as if...”
– Sandra Cisneros, “Never Marry a Mexican”
““But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot. The most grotesque and...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“I slid down from the window, and I remember lying on the ground staring up at...”
– Gene of A Separate Peace by John Knowles, pgs. 185-186
excerpts from even cowgirls get the blues
” ‘For eons of evolutionary time, our DNA has been whispering into the ears of our cells that we are, each one of us, the most precious things in the universe and that any action that entails the slightest risk to us may have consequences of universal importance. ‘Be careful, get comfortable, don’t make any waves,’ whispers the DNA. Conversely, the yearning for...
“Jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down.”
– Ray Bradbury
“We think of lifetimes as mostly the exceptional
and sorrows. Marriage we...”
– Jack Gilbert, “Highlights and Interstices”