February 2012
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I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others—young clerks in...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via vashti)
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mitford:
from Based On a Book of the Same Title
I wonder how much longer I can live here before I do something irresponsible like
meet a teenage boy on a Ferris wheel in 1941 or lay in the street and watch the stoplights change from green to yellow or sit on a porch
swing at dusk and listen to Leaves of Grass read by someone who has just worked all day with his hands. Already on page 56 I...
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I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me.
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (via lavenderbones)
Love Poem
foxandfayvel:
When you fall in love, you jockey your horse into the flaming barn. You hire a cabin on the shiny Titanic. You tease the black bear. Reading the Monitor, you scan the obituaries looking for your name.
Donald Hall
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