December 2011
10 posts
Dec 30th
9 notes
“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast (via  weelittleactress)
Dec 26th
1,118 notes
“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly,...”
– Joyce Carol Oates (via bookmania)
Dec 21st
855 notes
“All day the stars watch from long ago my mother said I am going now when you...”
– W.S. Merwin | “Rain Light” | The New Yorker | March 3, 2008 (via evoketheforms)
Dec 19th
199 notes
“And therein lies the whole of man’s plight. Human time does not turn in a...”
– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (via bookmania)
Dec 17th
474 notes
Dec 11th
6,750 notes
WatchWatch
From The Guardian: Jeffrey Eugenides, author of The Virgin Suicides, speaks to Sarfraz Manzoor about his book The Marriage Plot. He discusses the artificial nature of love, the waning power of marriage and how his engagement with religion is more than purely intellectual: ‘I don’t think you should be searching for the truth if you don’t think you’ll find the...
Dec 5th
“What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of...”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (via thoughtsdetained)
Dec 5th
53 notes
Dec 2nd
“Let me show you what I mean by pictures in the mind. I began “Play It As It...”
– Joan Didion
Dec 1st
2 notes