December 2010
“Books help to form us. If you cut me open, you will find volume after volume,...”
– Susan Hill (via 500daysofkissingmypillow)
November 2010
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I don't know which is worse: sleeping in a tent in...
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“I am not going to do anything WITH you: not if you mean by that “do...”
– J. R. R. Tolkien
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.”
– Charlie Brown (via lexaraye)
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This is why I love Slate. →
“…those warm summer nights of not being focused on were liberating. In the long sticky hours of boredom, in the lonely, unsupervised, unstructured time, something blooms; it was in those margins that we became ourselves.”
Obviously ever parent thinks their method is the right one, and I’m not even a parent yet, but seriously. Let your kid play in the dirt, learn bad...
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“‘It all depends on what you want,’ put in Merry. ‘You can...”
– J. R. R. Tolkien
..and the hearts of men are easily corrupted
Today I’m celebrating life. Cocoa, pho, and now snuggling in bed reading LOTR and napping. There is nothing I love more than weekends in the winter, it’s hibernation at its finest.
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Take It Easy (Love Nothing) - Bright Eyes
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“I meet people at book signings who whisper to me, ‘We are trying the spells.’...”
– J.K. Rowling
It doesn’t matter, JKR, you made us all believe in the magic :)
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Sonnet 66
Tired with all these, for restful death I cry,
As to behold desert a beggar born,
And needy nothing trimmed in jollity,
And purest faith unhappily forsworn,
And gilded honour shamefully misplaced,
And maiden virtue rudely strumpeted,
And right perfection wrongfully disgraced,
And strength by limping sway disabled,
And art made tongue-tied by authority,
And folly doctor-like controlling...
Winter Honesty #1
I think that even though I complain the most about things like shoveling and waiting for the bus while the wind is blowing cold air down my coat, one of the main reasons I really dislike winter is that laundry day is no longer determined by how many clean pairs of underwear I have (I have a LOT of underwear) but by the number of clean pairs of socks. I really, really hate socks. It’s like...
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“It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in...”
– John Waters (via liquidnight)
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White Christmas - Bing Crosby
Jeff: Do you ever want to get married?
Erin: Eventually. I got shit to do though.
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I know everyone has seen this, but I love it too... →
