December 2010
“All I know, April, is, I want to feel things. Really feel them. How’s that...”
– Frank Wheeler, Revolutionary Road
literarycollective:
She had dropped the habit of using terms of definite time, but instead preferred to say she’d be there once the tea had steeped, once the laundry was done, once the storm had cleared. She had become afraid to acknowledge the passing of the days, as each one took her farther from the date she couldn’t shake.
“As symbols go, champagne is extraordinarily powerful. It makes you feel like...”
– Marlene Dietrich
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much champagne is just right.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Everything else happened - why not the things that could have?”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, “Here We Aren’t, So Quickly”
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“I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the...”
– John Lennon (via newyorkcitylights)
“When I get dressed, I think of it as dress-up time, like the clothes are costume...”
– Mary-Kate Olsen (via the-front-row)
“That I may never know how change the moons,
Or hear the voice of busy...”
– Keats, “Ode on Insolence” (via wearebasiclight)
Cool Things I Want to and Must Do Before I Die:...
In no particular order:
1. live in New York for a year
2. Learn to hot-wire a car
3. Party in Ibiza
4. skydive
5. Glastonbury Music Festival
6. be muse to a rockstar and/or designer
7. do yoga in India
8. Mardi Gras in New Orleans
9. cross-country roadtrip, On the Road style
10. Live in Europe
11. go to a strip club
12. go to a gay bar
13. be a MILF
14. see the northern lights
15....
“Become the light.”
– Rumi
“That I may never know how change the moons,
Or hear the voice of busy...”
– Keats, “Ode on Insolence” (via wearebasiclight)
“A song of love, too sweet for earthly lyres,
While, like held breath, the stars...”
– Keats, Lamia (via wearebasiclight)