September 2011
“You make me so happy,
You just slay me, ukulele.”
– Sweet Soubrette, “Ukulele Love Song”
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August 2011
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“You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too...”
– Madeleine L’Engle (via excessivebookshelf)
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Irene victim in Wilmington was Mount Snow worker... →
Also:
“The streets are heavily coated with mud. In businesses and stores, a lot of windows are broken,” he said. “We had a number of buildings damaged. I’m sure some will be condemned.” Szarejko said the roof of a building was found on Vermont 100, but no one has been able to determine where it came from.
I was worried to hear that Vermont had been badly hit, but to hear about this happening...
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“Sorry mate, I don’t speak pathetic bastard. Come again?”
– Shoebox Project
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“There are going to be in your life some people who do not want to kiss you. And...”
– John Green
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Also. I just received an email informing me that I won a prize for my essay on Sense & Sensibility.
Life is beautiful.
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“Speaking of pictures, these pictures will never be burnt. You are the loveliest...”
– Shoebox Project
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“First of all, in fairness to this gentleman who raised a question, I absolutely...”
– President BARACK OBAMA, confronting a Tea Party leader in Iowa, who took Obama to task for Joe Biden’s reported labeling of the right-wing faction of the Republican party as “terrorists.”
Awww, did the Tea Party’s “Obama is a Muslim, Obama go back to Kenya, Obama isn’t American, Obama is a...
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“In a perfect world, you could fuck people without giving them a piece of your...”
– Neil Gaiman (Fragile Things)
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“The fundamental mistake I had always made—and that she had, in fairness,...”
– John Green, Paper Towns
Aw, shitstickers.
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“A child knows that real crabs on the beach do not sing and talk like the cartoon...”
– Grant Morrison, Supergods (via tompeyer)
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“If they’d had a pleasant, helpful librarian, half my plots would be gone. ‘Cause...”
– JK Rowling (via piranhaheart)
Ladies, Don't Let Anyone Tell You You're Not... →
I love it when Sarah Rees Brennan writes about feminism and literature.
A while ago, Karen Healey wrote a post asking women to say positive things about themselves - it was shockingly hard to write positive stuff about myself without adding qualifiers: saying ‘I’m quite’ or ‘I’m a bit’ or ‘But of course not as good as…’ Because if I did,...
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“If we give your daughters and granddaughters access to birth control they will...”
– Stephen Colbert (via ethiopienne)
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