January 2012
13 posts
“When I remember that dizzy summer, that dull, stupid, lovely, dire summer, it...”
– Michael Chabon, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh
“What do you fear? You fear being mediocre. You want to be great, you want to...”
– I’m Still Here, 2010
“Then when all the people went, it was no better. She continued plodding on, but...”
– D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley’s Lover
“There is only one heart in my body, have mercy on me.”
– Franz Wright, One Heart
“Stop talking about love. Every asshole in the world says he loves somebody. It...”
– The Last Kiss, 2006
“It’s starts out young- you try not be different just to survive- you try to be...”
– Douglas Coupland, Microserfs
December 2011
30 posts
“We all come into this world with our little egos equipped with individual horns....”
– All About Eve, 1950
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings...”
– Frank Herbert, Dune
“She read on and on, enraptured. She could not understand half, but it excited...”
– Antonia White, Frost in May
“I think the truth is always simple. It has pretty much got to be. It needs to be...”
– Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
“I find liquor is an essential tool for social lubrication.”
– Kinsey, 2004
“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees,...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Jim Croce - Bad, Bad Leroy Brown (Life and Times,...
“I’m living on my memories like a cheap has-been. I’ve been sitting in this...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Written on the Body
“You know when you have a dream and you’re half-awake, but still in the fringe of...”
– Wanted, 2008
“One day I will pack my bags of books and paper. One day I will say goodbye to...”
– Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
“What I hate is ignorance, smallness of imagination, the eye that sees no farther...”
– The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day
“I always feel this pressure of being a strong and independent icon of womanhood,...”
– Before Sunset, 2004
“Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, Like diamonds, we are cut with our...”
– John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
“I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Oranges are Not the Only Fruit
November 2011
25 posts
“What I really felt like, though, was committing suicide. I felt like jumping out...”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher In the Rye
“He could tell by the way animals walked that they were keeping time to some kind...”
– Laura Adams Armer, Waterless Mountain
“Human relationships didn’t work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing,...”
– Charles Bukowski, Women