January 2010
“I wanted to write something that might have the same sort of effect on a kid as...”
– Dave Eggers on ‘The Wild Things’
Explanation
aclockwithouthands:magicmolly:
My mom suggested it takes your soul a while to catch up when you travel by air; this explains the spiritual dimension of jet lag.
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
– Zora Neale Hurston (via theresearchsociety) (via libraryland)
“Although “youth” is supposed to mean an enthusiasm for change, young people...”
– Holden At Fifty, by Louis Menand
“No one in life, not the wartiest old dame in Arles, not the wrinkledest,...”
– Moab Is My Washpot, by Stephen Fry
“But his sense that everything is worthless is just the normal feeling people...”
– Holden At Fifty, by Louis Menand
“You build up all these defenses. You build up a whole armor, for years, so...”
– Neil Gaiman, The Sandman (via gargouilles) (via fuckyeahthesandman) (via laura9) (via paganpoetry)
“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life
I was a bride married to amazement....”
– Mary Oliver (via quote-book)
as i went down to the river to pray
“He was always asking you to do him a big favor. You take a very handsome guy, or...”
– J. D. Salinger
“You take a look around your college campus, and the world, and politics, and one...”
– J.D. Salinger
(via meaghano)(via prettysmart)(via oiseaujaune)
“Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity...”
– Arnold Edinborough (via pacificcru) (via kendalllouise) (via nihilnoetia) (via libraryland)
thethinkingtank:
DANCING BAREFOOT - patti smith
