June 2012
68 posts
Getting to the beach in the dark, cheap chinese, good friends, bonfires, marshmallows, watching thunderstorms with red bolts, sleeping on the sand, having people help us find wood, best hot dogs of my life, watching the sun rise, flying a penguin kite, exhaustion at 9 am but feeling just happy.
bday - so far so good.
One day
I just want to a pack a bag for the weekend, go to the airport, and take a random flight to wherever.
immyownhypeman:
I lost my best friend.
“I don’t think any day is worth living without thinking about what you’re going...”
– ― Nora Ephron
gammasandgerunds:
In Dispraise of Poetry
When the King of Siam disliked a courtier, he gave him a beautiful white elephant. The miracle beast deserved such ritual that to care for him properly meant ruin. Yet to care for him improperly was worse. It appears the gift could not be refused.
—Jack Gilbert, Views of Jeopardy
“You gave me a forever within the numbered days, and I’m grateful.”
– The Fault in Our Stars (via sparklyprisms)
come here and tell me a story
gammas & gerunds: SerenadeI wake to the cracked... →
gammasandgerunds:
Serenade
I wake to the cracked plate of moon being thrown
across the room— that’ll fix me
for trying sleep. Lately even night
has left me— now even the machine
that makes the rain has stopped sending
the sun away. It is late,
or early, depending—
who’s to say. Who’s to name
these ragged…
gammasandgerunds:
Amen
Belief in God is proof people exist.
—Kevin Young
“I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”
– Rumi (via nirvikalpa)
pantheonbooks:
“When I’m really into a novel, I’m seeing the world differently during that time - not just for the hour or so in the day when I get to read. I’m actually walking around in a haze, spellbound by the book and looking at everything through a different prism.”
― Colin Firth
truth.
“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I’m gazing at a distant star. It’s...”
– Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun (via 4mbivalent)
“In this world, love has no color — yet look how deeply my body is stained by...”
– Izumi Shikibu (via dailystendhalnitesaudade)
“I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.”
– Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises (via larmoyante)
“Never listen to anyone who criticizes taste in space travel or gorillas. When...”
– Ray Bradbury
RIP.