February 2012
14 posts
a note...
I feel like I should apologize for my recent absence and neglect of middlechildcomplex. I’ve made the decision to move to NYC in April and have been caught in a whirlwind of apartment searching and work transition ever since.
I’ve missed this quiet little corner of my life, and the strange way it clams my nerves and centers my mind. I’ve officially returned :)
“She writes like she’s starving and reads like she’s feasting.”
– R.D. Larson (via thatkindofwoman)
January 2012
43 posts
“I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via decrepito)
(SL) DISTIN 15: John Steinbeck on falling in love:... →
sldistin:
New York November 10, 1958
Dear Thom:
We had your letter this morning. I will answer it from my point of view and of course Elaine will from hers.
First — if you are in love — that’s a good thing — that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don’t let anyone make it small or light…
“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.”
– Katharine Hepburn
“Where’s your will to be weird?”
– The Doors (1991)
“There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of...”
– Howard Thurman (via quote-book)
“Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a...”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (via aestivial)
New Slang, The Shins
“What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing.”
– Aristotle (via kari-shma)
“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we...”
– Ivan Turgenev (via kari-shma)
thiscuratedlife asked: Thank you for that beautiful playlist. I drive a lot back and forth from school so I can't wait to listen to it!
“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you- a boy who loves you”
– The Book Thief, Markus Zusak
“I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his...”
– Sylvia Plath (via selfinspiration)
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
– Henry Ford (via modernhepburn)
