boston

I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there.
Fred Allen

cupcake

(photo by me. don't steal it, k?)

“Imagine a new story for your life and start living it.”

- Paulo Coelho

(via quotebook)

memories

story

“Stories always tell us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.”

- Madeleine L’Engle

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faded

I understand feeling as small and as insignificant as humanly possible. And how it can actually ache in places you didn't know you had inside you. And it doesn't matter how many new haircuts you get, or gyms you join, or how many glasses of chardonnay you drink with your girlfriends... you still go to bed every night going over every detail and wonder what you did wrong or how you could have misunderstood. And how in the hell for that brief moment you could think that you were that happy. And sometimes you can even convince yourself that he'll see the light and show up at your door. And after all that, however long all that may be, you'll go somewhere new. And you'll meet people who make you feel worthwhile again. And little pieces of your soul will finally come back. And all that fuzzy stuff, those years of your life that you wasted, that will eventually begin to fade.

- The Holiday

breakfast

(via ffffound)

Claire: You know, you look a lot better without all that black shit under your eyes.
Allison: Hey, I like all that black shit... Why are you being so nice to me?
Claire: Because you're letting me.

- The Breakfast Club

nina

I wouldn't ask you to lift up/This great big world little baby/I'm not that kind of a girl

from 'That's all I ask' off of Nina Simone's the Wild is the Wind album

eggs

“After that, it got pretty late and we both had to go, but it was great seeing Annie again and I realized what a terrific person she was and how much fun it was just knowing her…and I thought of that old joke, you know, the, this guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, ‘Doc, uh, my brother’s crazy, he thinks he’s a chicken,’ and uh, the doctor says, ‘Well why don’t you turn him in?’ And the guy says, ‘I would, but I need the eggs.’ Well, I guess that’s pretty much now how I feel about relationships. You know, they’re totally irrational and crazy and absurd and - but uh, I guess we keep going through it…because…most of us need the eggs.”

- Annie Hall

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flashback

rain

For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.
- From 'The Mute Ventriloquist' in The secret lives of people in love by Simon Van Booy

cry me

(via ffffound)

You drove me, nearly drove me, out of my head
While you never shed a tear
Remember, I remember, all that you said
You told me love was too plebeian
Told me you were through with me and
Now you say you love me
Well, just to prove that you do
Come on and cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried a river over you.

- 'cry me a river' by arthur hamilton

lemon

(via quotebook)

protection

I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
- Susan B. Anthony

night

"Night can unmoor so many feelings; it is a relief we sleep through.
Night unravels the day and reinvents it for the first time.
We may mean nothing to time, but to each other we are kings and queens, and the world is a wile benevolent garden filled with meetings and unexplained departures."
- "Everything is a Beautiful Trick" from The secret lives of people in love by Simon Van Booy

pretty

i love this post. you should go.

still

'And as the ax bites into the wood, be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still alive, still human, and still open to the beauty of the world, even though you have done nothing to deserve it.'

- pg. 72 of Tinkers by Paul Harding

it had to be done

Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind. "Mankind." That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can't be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it's fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom... Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution... but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist. And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: "We will not go quietly into the night!" We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today we celebrate our Independence Day!

- Independence Day

:)

Fuck-a-doodle-doo!
-Four Weddings and a Funeral

snoop

via halfheartedly

despite the vulgarity, i love my snoop dogg.