May 2009
18 posts
Five terrible fake Jane Austen novels
Rash and Rationality
Punk and Punctuality
Beast and Bestiality
Funk and Functionality
Fried and Credulous
from Merlin Mann’s 5ives
“When you’re in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend...”
– Groucho Marx
“Gradually, a rhythm descends on me again. But rhythm is no longer enough to...”
– from The Rider, by Tim Krabbe
April 2009
54 posts
“Pot exacted from him a languid thoroughness while making love. Every touch lost...”
– from Open, by Lisa Moore
“Still, one can never know even half of another person.
So much I don’t...”
– from Unless, by Carol Shields.
“Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.”
– Sylvia Plath
It’s Earth Day. But my head is in the stars, and I’m still wishing on the moon.
xo
“Fly me to the moon
Let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like...”
“Maybe I’m amazed at the way you’re with me all the time
Maybe...”
– Sir Paul McCartney
“Yes, and thanks for the trouble you took from her eyes. I thought it was there...”
– Leonard Cohen
“TO A FELLOW STUDENT
I thought about you a lot.
I still do.
You sat still,...”
– Leonard Cohen
(those last three lines tear me up every time.)
“I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.”
– Kurt Cobain