December 2009
10 posts
But since, at every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale...
– Paulo Coelho (Eleven Minutes)
He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it,...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via tusha)
My mother said our bodies could digest anything,
but that’s a lie. Sometimes,...
– Antietam by Sandra Beasley (via sleepanddream)
near the covered ditches, only
an ocean keeps confessing
starfish to shore
– from “Seven Stages of Genocide” by Victoria Chang (via sleepanddream)
I can no longer hear your breathing,
just the rain that can’t hold back...
– “Ode to Iris Chang” by Victoria Chang (via sleepanddream)
It is dangerous to love what death can touch.
– Lisa Olstein (via sleepanddream)
Have you ever felt like your whole body was going to fall apart if you didn’t...
– A Letter to my Professor (via sleepanddream)
I survive on the breath you are finished with
– Come Back to Bed by John Mayer (via aestheticthoughts)
A lake
Is a river curled up and asleep like a snake.
– Thomas Lovell Beddoes, “A Lake,” 1823-5. (via aubade) (via leprintemps)
’till at last the child’s mind is these suggestions, and the sum of the...
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World