April 2013
4 posts
Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.
– Frederick Buechner
She went back to her room and put on her best dress, high heels, tried to fix...
– Post Office (Charles Bukowski)
Because when you’re wildly in love with someone, it changes everything.
– Francis Chan
March 2013
3 posts
Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you...
– Ernest Hemingway
February 2013
6 posts
It helps sometimes to dwell on the good memories. They remind you that happiness...
– Yvonne Woon, Dead Beautiful
Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
January 2013
1 post
Leaving is not enough. You must stay gone. Train your heart like a dog. Change...
– Frida Kahlo to Marty McConnell, by Marty McConnell
October 2012
3 posts
You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else...
– Mary Oliver
September 2012
3 posts
August 2012
13 posts
I love unmade beds. I love when people are drunk and crying and cannot be...
To speak, and to write, is to assert who we are, what we think. The necessary...
– Jane Hirshfield
Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to...
– Barbara Kingsolver
And if he doesn’t exist, I’ll never die of a broken heart.
– Practical Magic
An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are...
– Patricia Fry
July 2012
18 posts
Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change...
– Anthony Bourdain
You will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own...
– Ira Glass
Most people are together just so they are not alone.
But some people want...
– broken english (2007)
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where...
– John Muir
But I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.
– Don Cheadle
I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very...
– L.M. Montgomery
Summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people....
– Deb Caletti, Honey, Baby, Sweetheart