"And for my husband? For him I let fall into the calm, glassy waters a poem I wrote in the hospital yesterday. Finally he’ll know my feelings for him."
- Bharati Mukherjee, “The Management of Grief”
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May 7 2012, 2:01 pm
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"After midnight the whistling of the wind died down and the sea fell into its Wednesday drowsiness"
- Gabriel García Márquez, “The Handsomest Drowned Man in The World”
April 18 2012, 8:49 pm
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April 6 2012, 4:23 pm
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"For a brief moment I felt immensely sad for him, my handsome brother who had reached the height of a teenager without shedding the rounded shoulders of boyhood. His eyes reflected my pain, and for that instant we were one organism, with no separation of flesh or consciousness. And we ran as one being, The Twins, up the hill, frantic to get home."
- Abraham Verghese, “Cutting For Stone”
April 5 2012, 5:20 pm
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"The world had been sad since Tuesday. Sea, and sky were a single ash-gray thing and the sands of the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a stew of mud and rotten shellfish."
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “A very old man with enormous wings”
March 7 2012, 10:36 pm
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"The deer hunt was the end and summit of his year: the irrevocable shot, the thin, ringing silence that followed, the buck down and still, the sky like clouded marble from which sifted snow finer than dust, and the sense of a complete cycle as the cooling blood ran into the dead leaves."
- Annie Proulx, “Heart Songs and other stories: On The Antler”
February 18 2012, 10:20 am
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"I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable."
- Amy Tan
February 3 2012, 6:12 am
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January 27 2012, 7:52 pm
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"Sometimes I don’t feel very social and I just go to sleep."
- Ezra Koenig (via spektacular)
January 19 2012, 7:52 pm
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"Even if we could turn back, we’d probably never end up where we started."
- Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
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December 10 2011, 6:09 am
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December 9 2011, 6:12 am
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"There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion."
- Edgar Allan Poe (via loveyourchaos)
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November 30 2011, 4:28 pm
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"I feel my heart ache, but I’ve forgotten what that feeling means."
- Chuck Palahniuk (via misswallflower)
