January 2010
1 post
Mudita: Happiness in another’s good fortune.
Envy: Unhappiness in another’s good fortune.
Empathy: Unhappiness at another’s misfortune.
Schadenfreude: Pleasure derived from the misfortune of others.
November 2009
5 posts
1, 2, 3, 4... tell me that you love me more.
I believe in first impressions. I don’t believe in one night stands.
I believe in second chances. I don’t believe in 2nd guesses.
I believe in third times the charm. I don’t believe in the 3rd degree.
I believe in 4 leaf clovers. I don’t believe in the fourth dimension.
I believe I love you. I don’t believe I’ll stop.
“(630): I don’t know what kind of drugs you were on last night but you kept...”
– TFLN (via glorigloriglori)
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not...”
– -Friedrich Nietzsche (via miapeaches) (via 11h11) (via momenttomoment)
May 2009
6 posts
broken legs can be replaced, but broken hearts never quite/ hardly ever heal, that’s why I keep running after you.
I can’t decide which phrase to use: never quite or hardly ever?
“I give you bitter pills in sugar coating. The pills are harmless: the poison is...”
– Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
“I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.”
– -Sally Kempton (via sosexyoutofcontext)
Also, “You’re only a feminist because you’re ugly.
No, I’m a feminist because you’re a boy.”
“I had a friend who died for something he really loved.
I had a friend who stood...”
What’s the point of anything in this world, unless you have someone to share it with?
April 2009
7 posts
“I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of...”
– George Eliot (via seemsforever)
Make It Last- Ice Cream Socialites
DANCE MUTHAS!
Classic. Other than Cat Power’s version, I...
Watchiguessthatscool:
jennylewis:
Cooking with RK.
“My biggest downfall is cheese, ‘cause I just love it.”
I love Rilo and Jenny, but especially old skool Rilo and Jenny!
March 2009
10 posts
“The fatal law of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.”
– Sylvia Townsend Warner
(via trishtumbles)
seemsforever:
thesoundofwhite:
Kaki King -...
“Hey. Could we do that again? I know we haven’t met, but I don’t want...”
– Waking Life
“We’re at our best when it’s from our hips. From our hips we...”
– Cursive
momenttomoment:
seemsforever:
lykke li -...
“Music has been and always will be, my best friend!”
– Me. Just after seeing Cursive at the Troubadour for about the tenth time. (Also know that I was surrounded by 7 of my close friends. Hopefully they weren’t offended.)
indierawk:
Fever Ray - When I Grow Up (D.Lissvik...
“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the...”
– Ernest Hemingway(from his Nobel Prize speech, 1954) (via diamonds-n-rubies) (via havent-got-a-prayer)
February 2009
8 posts
jamiemurnane:
“Until We Bleed,” Lykke Li +...
Lost chance on us
We were waiting for the train to come in the metro. The one across from the Pantages Theater in LA. I could tell you weren’t used to taking the subway by the way you held your bags so close to your chest and kept looking around hurriedly and anxiously.
I felt for you and wanted to come over, hopefully to give you some sort of comfort with a simple conversation. But I didn’t know how...
“Religion is for people who don’t want to go to hell. Spirituality is for people...”
– A guy at the Narcotics Anonymous meeting tonight. (via havent-got-a-prayer)
braceepaine:
INFLATABLE BOY CLAMS - Skeleton
I...
January 2009
33 posts
havent-got-a-prayer:
movieoftheweek:
Where Is My...
“Eight rules for writing fiction:
1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1999), 9-10. (via ariah) (via davidmaddox) (via havent-got-a-prayer)
“With all your lies, you’re still very lovable.”
– Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago
momenttomoment:
Bon Iver - Blood Bank
I told my...
