April 2012
17 posts
“The key to a successful relationship isn’t just in the words, it’s...”
– David Levithan, The Lover’s Dictionary
“We have fallen through the surface of want and are deep in the trenches of need.”
– David Levithan, The Lover’s Dictionary
“The thing about champagne is that it is the ultimate associative object. Every...”
– David Levithan, The Lover’s Dictionary
“The slight acne scars. The penny-sized, penny-shaped birthmark right above your...”
– David Levithan, The Lover’s Dictionary
“I think we endure the banal —
“So how’s your chicken?”...”
– David Levithan, The Lover’s Dictionary
“These kinds of fights can never be won—even if you’re the victor,...”
– David Levithan, The Lover’s Dictionary
“To hate” was a transitive verb. Anger needed an anchor, a plug, a wall. ...”
– Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
“I was a fairy-minded kid, a comic book kid, and I had a bad habit of looking for...”
– Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
“Halley believed that a kiss was the beginning of a story, the story, good or...”
– Paul Murray, Skippy Dies
“I’d sometimes reach the end of a chapter, look up, and be startled by my...”
– Curtis Sittenfeld, American Wife
“There were so many terrible moments, a lifetime of terrible moments, really,...”
– Curtis Sittenfeld, American Wife
“Knit me a sweater out of your best stories. Not the day’s petty...”
– David Levithan, The Lover’s Dictionary
“Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured...”
– David Levithan, The Lover’s Dictionary
“Ossie’s need was like a fire that ate all the oxygen in a room. Her...”
– Karen Russell, Swamplandia!
“In this heat nothing mattered. All life was weather, a waiting through the hot...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tales of the Jazz Age
“It’s not that Howard doesn’t love her. He does, he would do...”
– Paul Murray, Skippy Dies
“It was not simply that she was both smart and frivolous but that her smartness...”
– Curtis Sittenfeld, American Wife
September 2011
1 post
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“The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no...”
– Frank O’Connor (via libraryland)
August 2011
11 posts
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“…she who all night long had tended and protected him like a child was now...”
– The Day Boy and The Night Girl, George Macdonald
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“I could not see your lovely eyes but for the light that is in them; that lets me...”
– The Day Boy and The Night Girl, George Macdonald
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“You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will...”
– The Day Boy and The Night Girl, George Macdonald
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“You must know how gentle and sweet the darkness is, how kind and friendly, how...”
– The Day Boy and The Night Girl, George Macdonald
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“In the hearts of witches, love and hate lie close together, and often tumble...”
– The Day Boy and The Night Girl, George Macdonald
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“What you hear is only the walking of the water, and the running about of the...”
– The Day Boy and The Night Girl, George Macdonald
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“And now she grew thoughtful. She must hoard this splendor! What a little...”
– The Day Boy and The Night Girl, George Macdonald
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“She would wonder what had hurt her when she found her face wet with tears, and...”
– The Day Boy and The Night Girl, George Macdonald
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“She was not unhappy. She knew nothing of the world except the tomb in which she...”
– The Day Boy and The Night Girl, George Macdonald
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“She was straight and strong, but now and then would fall bent together, shudder,...”
– The Day Boy and The Night Girl, George Macdonald
Become a Bone Marrow Doner →
wishful-sinful:
When I was fourteen, I babysat for a two year old boy named Eric who was the sweetest kid you can imagine. Later that year, he was diagnosed with Neuroblastoma, a type of cancer where those diagnosed have an average age of eighteen months. At the time, I was too young to donate bone marrow and the idea of needles absolutely terrified me, but luckily, Eric had other donors.
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July 2011
24 posts
Wishful/Sinful: 50 Books in Months →
wishful-sinful:
1) Water for Elephants - Sara Gruen (4.5)
2) One Day - David Nicholls (4.5)
3) Freedom - Jonathan Franzen (4.3)
4) I Am Number Four - Pittacus Lore (3.0)
5) Love is a Mix Tape - Rob Sheffield (5.0)
6) Mirror, Mirror - Gregory Maguire (4.5)
7) Misguided Angel - Melissa De La Cruz (4.5)
8)…
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“I don’t want to think about the morning the wife died from a snake bite,...”
– And Yet They Were Happy, Helen Phillips
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“The round table is set for two, with two red placemats, two white bowls, two...”
– And Yet They Were Happy, Helen Phillips
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“It cleared her vision, like an orgasm. She was so correct; every word she...”
– And Yet They Were Happy, Helen Phillips
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“How swiftly and splendidly the rage had come over her! They’d been...”
– And Yet They Were Happy, Helen Phillips
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“Because he sometimes forgets her, she’s forced to do certain things, such...”
– And Yet They Were Happy, Helen Phillips
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“Your body is too drunk to realize how cold it is, so I must realize it for it. ...”
– And Yet They Were Happy, Helen Phillips
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“My heart became a metal bucket, tipping over, saltwater onto sand. Parts of you...”
– And Yet They Were Happy, Helen Phillips
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“He’s gotten used to her; he knows things about her that she hasn’t...”
– And Yet They Were Happy, Helen Phillips
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“He says, “No offense, but this doesn’t seem like the kind of room...”
– And Yet They Were Happy, Helen Phillips
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“A young man and a young woman lie side by side on the grass. Her heart swells,...”
– And Yet They Were Happy, Helen Phillips
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“Eventually, it will become a practical matter, millions of yours searching for...”
– And Yet They Were Happy, Helen Phillips
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“Oh-darling-watch those metaphors,you’re getting ornate, you’re...”
– And Yet They Were Happy, Helen Phillips
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tessajohnson:
The Postal Service - Brand New...
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sunandshades:
The Pierces - Boy in a Rock and...
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