May 2012
1 post
April 2012
1 post
January 2012
2 posts
December 2011
2 posts
September 2011
1 post
December 2010
1 post
“She’s the mother I never had. The sister everybody would want. The friend...”
– Oprah Winfrey about her best friend, Gayle King
September 2010
1 post
“Maybe mistakes are what make our fate… without them what would shape our...”
August 2010
2 posts
“Remember when you were a kid and your biggest worry was, like, if you’d...”
– Grey’s Anatomy
“Moreover, I have boundary issues with men. Or maybe that’s not fair to...”
– taken from Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love
May 2010
2 posts
2 tags
April 2010
2 posts
i'm a total nerd, but i cried when i read this.
Frank - I’ve been following PostSecret for years and have never seen one of my secrets posted. But something happened a few days ago that was much cooler. I opened your latest PostSecret book at Barnes & Noble and read that secret on page 5 about the note found on the plane. I was shocked to realize that I had written the note a couple years ago. I had left the note on the...
March 2010
0 posts
October 2009
1 post
September 2009
2 posts
“The latter would understand the ‘mark’ of gender to be part of the...”
– i know i’m planning to become a scholarly writer, but sometimes, i really hate scholarly writing.
2 tags
July 2009
1 post
“Justin Timberlake is creating a scent. Besides smelling nice, it will be...”
– from gawker. so true.
June 2009
2 posts
i've learned, by omer b. washington
i usually hate this kind of stuff, but this poem pretty much sums up the way i look at the world.
below is an excerpt. check out the full text here.
I’ve learned that heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.
I’ve learned that there are people who love you dearly, but just don’t know how to show it.
I’ve learned that sometimes...
March 2009
3 posts
what a difference a year makes
a year ago yesterday, i was here:
and a year ago today, i was here:
how strange.
reasons that i love college
a photoessay.
“You know what? Sometimes it’s not about whether Cinderella gets her...”
– Michael Scott, in his infinite wisdom.
February 2009
3 posts
“When writing and rewriting, murder your darlings.”
– Doug Foster, what the hell are you talking about?
“Good luck, Kappa Deltas! Please don’t screw it up. And after she leaves,...”
– the closing lines to Mandy’s rousing poem about how not to get ourselves kicked off campus when our official visit happens this weekend.
“It’s like Dorigen’s at the bar with McSteamy, but she’s...”
– my Chaucer professor, in an attempt to bring the Franklin’s Tale to the masses.
January 2009
5 posts
1 tag
“Sometimes, when we lose ourselves in fear and despair, in routine and constancy,...”
– Stranger Than Fiction
1 tag
“Stop planning your life and let it plan itself. Quit trying to find the perfect...”
2 tags
chaucer
Ther nas baillif ne hierde nor oother hyne, That he [ne] knew his slieghte and his covyne.
from The Canterbury Tales, which i am reading in the original middle english for my chaucer class. no idea what the fuck it means, but it looks pretty damn cool.
1 tag
“Along the way, I’ve learned that you can’t let anyone in too far and you can’t...”
1 tag
December 2008
2 posts
1 tag
3 tags
“Regardless, all three characters arrive at the same conclusion: you are what you...”
– the last sentence of my am lit final essay. can you tell i got three hours of sleep?
November 2008
7 posts
3 tags
“There’s no such thing as objectivity. The minute you pick up a camera, you...”
– Richard Avedon. i’ve been looking for the Sicily print online (been trying to acquire it for years, actually) when i stumbled upon this quote. it reminds me a lot of the things they carried.
2 tags
1 tag
“You get sex, and I get fucked.”
– arguably one of the funniest things Kerry has ever said.
1 tag
“Having ovaries costs you money.”
– Wendi Gardner, my psychology professor, on the disparity between male and female salaries.
2 tags
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
– From The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky.
2 tags
1 tag
October 2008
3 posts
1 tag
“eb blass literally cannot survive without andre. her body only runs on oxygen...”
– Belfer. and here i thought we didn’t know eachother at all.
1 tag
1 tag
“maybe its just my way of saying you should open up yourself MORE to MORE people.”
– the wise words of MKD.
September 2008
7 posts
2 tags
“I need you. I need you on board. I need you to cheer me on. Because you’re...”
– Meredith to Christina, Grey’s Anatomy “Dream a Little Dream”
1 tag
2 tags
batter my heart, three-person'd God--
…for you as yet but knock; breathe, shine, and seek to mend ; That I may rise, and stand, o’erthrow me, and bend Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new. I, like an usurp’d town, to another due, Labour to admit you, but O, to no end. Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend, But is captived, and proves weak or untrue. Yet dearly I love you, and would be...
1 tag
1 tag
“And then the clouds opened up and God said, ‘I hate you, Alfalfa!’”
– The Little Rascals