December 2008
29 posts
By 30, you should know:
1. How to fall in love without losing yourself. 2. How you feel about having kids. 3. How to quit a job, break up with a man and confront a friend without ruining the friendship. 4. When to try harder and when to walk away. 5. How to kiss in a way that communicates perfectly what you would and wouldn’t like to happen next. 6. The names of: the secretary of state, your great-grandmother and the...
“I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.”
– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“Don’t look at where you fell, look at where you slipped.”
– African Proverb
“If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[...”
– Lemony Snicket
“I imagined the lies the valedictorian was telling them right now. About the exciting future that lies ahead.
I wish she’d tell them the truth: Half of you have gone as far in life as you’re ever going to. Look around. It’s all downhill from here. The rest of us will go a bit further, a steady job, a trip to Hawaii, or a move to Phoenix, Arizona, but out of fifteen hundred...
“replace fear of the unknown with curiosity”
here is the deepest secret nobody knows (here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide) and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)
e.e. cummings
“The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it...”
– Elizabeth Hardwick
“People are often unreasonable, illogical & self centered; forgive them...”
“You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way...”
– Ray Bradbury
“To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
