December 2011
New Year's Eve Letter to Friends by David Clewell
New Year’s Eve Letter to Friends
by David Clewell
Every year the odds are stacked against it turning out the way you’d like: a year of smooth, a year of easy smile, a year like a lake you could float on, looking up at a blue year of soothing sky.
Mostly the letters you’re expecting never come. Lovers walk out and keep on going and in no time they’re no friend of yours. Mostly, the sheer...
“I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when...”
– Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (via pavorst)
““We have a soul at times.
No one’s got it non-stop,
for keeps.
Day after...”
– (via journalofanobody)
Shrinkage
shitmystudentswrite:
The wind whistled up the leg of his trousers and froze his ambition.
“I bring you with reverent hands
The books of my numberless dreams.”
– W. B. Yeats, from “A Poet to His Beloved” (via proustitute)
“Seduction is about intelligence and wit. Someone who makes me laugh has every...”
– (via room42)
“I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one… . Humans are...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden (via danseurs)
“She was breathing deeply, she forgot the cold, the weight of beings, the insane...”
– Albert Camus (via thatkindofwoman)
“Through kindness, you can change your fate.”
– Nguyen T. Nguyen via (via petitpoulailler) 