February 2012
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“And the woman said, The serpent
beguiled me, and I did eat.
— Genesis 3:13
...”
– Diane Lockward, Eve Argues Against Perfection (via grammatolatry)
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I kind of just want to wrap myself up in someone else’s oversized t-shirt and crawl under my covers and never come out. Fuck you for calling this morning and making my insides feel like they’re sliding up my throat.
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Good night, friend.
I would love to write harsh words tonight but I can’t seem to stop stuttering, stumbling over silly songs sung so long ago. It’s all so silly.
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I'm so excited. And I just can't hide it. I'm...
i am sorry
thenamesofhurricanes:
if i have lost track of how to be gracefully broken.
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Getting Zoe’s letter this morning made my day so much better. I would much rather be writing back than sitting in class. Humph.
July, 2008
Interviewer: There's a lyric off one of your new songs, “Moab,” that has been puzzling me a bit. It's "They say the sun won't burn forever/ But that's a science too exact/ I'll prove it, watch we're crossing the state line/ See the headlights coming towards us?/ That's someone going back/ To a town they said they'd never, yeah, they swore it on their lives/ But you can't break out of a circle/ That you never thought you were in." What'd you mean by that?
ConorOberst: I guess that's just about things that are so embedded in your blood and your DNA that you just can't escape. Like the idea of becoming your father, really. So many people swear off their hometown and think they're never going back and they find themselves back there.
Interviewer: So you think the sun coming up and setting all the time, is kind of one of those things that's embedded in us?
ConorOberst: Yeah exactly, I think it's just those things that are just so much a part of you that you just can't escape them, even if that's all you want to do.
“I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles...”
– Maya Angelou (via enchanting)
“When I said I wasn’t with another girl
the January after we fell in love for...”
– Jon Sands, A Working List of Things I Will Never Tell You
(via holdonmagnolia)
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&& then we started talking about food...of course.
Me: Period came. (':
Elyse: Yaaaayy for no babies.
Also, I just sent that to the wrong person.
Me: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA That's hilarious. Who'd you send that to?
Elyse: Carol. Who is also on her period. iPhones always think they're so clever.
Me: Haha that's pretty funny though.
Elyse: Better than sending it to my mom.
Me: Mmm. That would have been a winner.
Elyse: She knows my friends have sex. And she knows I drink. She put me on birth control at sixteen. But she still doesn't think I'm sexually active. Talk about having your head in the sand.
Me: Hahaha. It's cause you're the baby.
Elyse: Or something like that. Haha.
Me: It's better than my mom. She told me that Zach couldn't ever love me because I've been with another person.
Elyse: Well sure. But she's apparently crazy. Who wants to be with a virgin, anyway? They're all bloody and screaming. It's like a crime scene.
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“We live in a modern society. Husbands and wives don’t
grow on trees, like in...”
– Jeffrey McDaniel, “The Archipelago of Kisses” (via fleurishes)
“No one could blame American women here if they all suddenly decided to leave the...”
– John Oliver on American contraception debates, The Bugle 183 (via sixpencesoulcake)
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i’ve been a lot of things lately. ‘been nostalgic and quiet, in silence and asleep for too long. in moving cars that don’t go anywhere. in anger, in wonder, in frustration. ‘been falling for quite a ways but not in love. i keep filling up with smoke: my buttons, my sleeves, my sheets, my fingernails. can’t find enough soap to wash the taste away. can’t find...
“Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via loveyourchaos)
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I kind of just want to sit here all day with my window open writing and reading and listening to The Honorary Title because, c’mon, who doesn’t love The Honorary Title?
