January 2012
“Kaitlyn just happened to be an extremely sophisticated twenty-five-year-old...”
– John Green (The Fault in Our Stars)
“there was rain
there was wind
there was spring coming in
there was a feeling...”
– The Mountain Goats, “Historiography”
“That’s the thing about pain,” Augustus said, and then glanced back at me. “It...”
– ‘The Fault in Our Stars’, John Green (via flutter)
Watchalexthegenius:
fieryrainbows:
phaibooty:
Wow.
Please watch. I’m begging you followers, if you have not seen this, please watch it.
oh god
this gets me every time
all the emotions
John Green's tumblr: Cows: The New Rules →
fishingboatproceeds:
Driving through west Texas today, Hank and Katherine and I have made some important innovation to the Game of Cows, and we thought you might like to know our rules. (For those who don’t know, the Game of Cows is a road trip game in which you say “cows” when you see more than one cow. It’s very…
“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely...”
– Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last (via philphys)
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The Fault In Our Stars
Vaguely referenced House Hunters. Or a House Hunters-like show. Due to a fairly recent Swoodilypoopers video, in which John discusses TV shows, I’m feeling confident in assuming it was House Hunters, possibly of the international variety. This is massively important and grossly sentimental for me right now. It’s actually ridiculous, and I’ll dwell on the deeper meanings of the...
“It’s a funny thing about coming home. Looks the same, smells the same, feels the...”
– The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (via wordsandlyrics)
“She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just...”
– Perks of being a Wallflower (via every-word-is-true)
“Please don’t let me stop thinking and start blindly frightenedly accepting! I...”
– Sylvia Plath, Journals of (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via intervals)
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I’ll find the map and draw a straight line...
“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against...”
– James Joyce (via philphys)
This is Why Women Are Afraid to Tell You No |... →
This past Thursday, a group of men started cat-calling/hitting on a group of women in Chicago. When the women said, no, the men threw bottles and then SHOT at their car as they tried to drive away. One woman was shot in the shoulder, and the driver took a bottle in the head as she tried to drive off. Last month in Washington, DC a Transwoman was shot for turning down a man’s request for sex...
Another Godless Goddess: Sumerians Look On In... →
Members of the earth’s earliest known civilization, the Sumerians, looked on in shock and confusion some 6,000 years ago as God, the Lord Almighty, created Heaven and Earth.
According to recently excavated clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform script, thousands of Sumerians—the first humans to…
“When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via every-word-is-true)
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“I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent...”
– Timothy Leary As quoted in Shout! (1981) by Philip Norman, p. 365; and in An Encyclopedia of Quotations about Music (1981) by Nat Shapiro, p. 303
“There’s a common explanation that profound sadness leads to someone’s becoming a...”
– —Stephen Colbert, referring to the death of his father and two brothers in a plane crash in 1974, when the comedian was ten years old.
If you are a fan of the enigmatic Colbert or at all curious about the genius of comedy or the depth of his Catholic faith, Charles McGrath’s profile, “How Many...
“Convicted of the forgery, insurance fraud, and theft,
he admits the first and...”
– From an opinion by a Pennsylvania Supreme Court judge, Justice J. Michael Eakin, who’s ”known for occasionally distributing justice via poetry,” as the Wall Street Journal puts it. (via officialssay)
“And people are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don’t...”
– Vincent Van Gogh in a letter to his brother Theo (July 1880)
Anonymous asked: <p>“You can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.” <br/>
will you just… talk about this some?</p>
will you just… talk about this some?</p>
