December 2010
Either that wallpaper goes or I do.
“Doctor, there’s a woman in the wallpaper.”
“That woman has a feminist agenda. Tell her to get in the wallpaper that’s in the kitchen.”
“I have a problem when people say something’s real or not real, or normal or...”
– Tim Burton (via gothiccharmschool)
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“The mark of a good book is that you’re happy to come home to it. The mark of a...”
– Derek Thompson, associate editor - The Atlantic on The Best Book I Read This Year (via lanipauli)
Happy birthday Jane!
I've been thinking a bit about the Manic Pixie...
This is probably because I just reread Paper Towns, which is about a MPDG, until it isn’t about that anymore at all. By the end of the book, Q realizes that Margo is considerably more than what he imagined her to be, which is, a romanticized, otherworldly being out of his reach but still to be admired; she sort of ends up that way anyway, since she leaves and we can’t refine our...
“‘Women aren’t things!’ said Ron, who had obviously never read...”
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“A teetotal Irishman is a dangerous thing. He may begin to think. Then he may...”
– Sarah Rees Brennan
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"Located at the intersection of two dirt roads...
Actually re-reading this book for the first time since I’ve been in college, I have just realized:
I drive just past Agloe EVERY TRIP HOME. I have eaten dinner ten minutes from the Agloe General Store.
Next time: Detour.
“Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and...”
– John Green, Paper Towns
He's a Keeper
Me: This essay is impossible. I can't condense all of Soviet history into ten items.
Boyfriend: Just think of it as making horcruxes for Stalin.
Me: ASDGJSKSDFN!!!
“In children’s literature, beauty is often shadowed by the primal, unforgiving...”
– Maria Tatar
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The New England Primer →
My research paper is going to be so bloody awesome. Check it.
“Oh let’s get rich and buy our parents homes in the south of France,...”
– Ingrid Michaelson
I just wasted a great deal of time on Black...
…and I think I want to buy a six sampler pack after Christmas (provided my funds are in an acceptable condition). So far, here’s the possible list:
Glascow
London
The Jersey Devil
Veil
Schrodinger’s Cat
Hymn to Proserpine
Amsterdam
Paris
Danube
Hm. That is more than six.
