June 2010
“At the same time, she felt strangely displaced, not quite her usual tidy ego but...”
– “Extreme Solitude”, Jeffrey Eugenides
“He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a...”
– —Mrs. Dalloway
this is me. this is what i like in men currently (unfortunately?)
“When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“Her face was always enough answer for any one, but she decided to speak.”
– This Side of Paradise
May 2010
Lady (Falling in Love)—Dennis Wilson
“We spend an enormous amount of our lives (at least I do, and my friends do—but...”
– f. scott fitzgerald
“When I came with you that first time
on the floor of your office, the dirty...”
– 2 AM, Dorianne Laux
lately, i’ve been thinking about that dr. suess book that shows all the different things you can be or do when you grow up— some of them are quite fanciful, of course
(i think it’s a dr. seuss book)
and there’s an illustration that is captioned “jewel thief!”, of a very skinny cat burglar in all black climbing out of a window draped in precious jewels
(at least...
Your New College Graduate: A Parent's Guide →
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“My mother disapproved. “You should know,” she said, “that red...”
– Diana Vreeland
April 2010
“Was Simone de Beauvoir beautiful? Francine Gray once described her look as...”
– the moment
“Sometimes I forget that I’m dating someone who grew up on a different...”
– Katie’s journal
“One of the bigger surprises of the book is that a woman who wrote lyrics such as...”
– article on patti smith 