August 2012
July 2012
“Everyone seems pleased with the way I’ve taken command.”
– Joseph Heller, from Something Happened (thanks, coconutdragon)
“[He looked her up and down, appraising her from the dusty shoes to the...”
– Sebastian Faulks, The Girl At the Lion d’Or (thanks, greysfanhp)
“[I could eat the sky
like an apple
but I’d rather
ask the first star:
why am...”
– Anne Sexton, from “The Fury of Sunsets” (via the-final-sentence)
“I slept before a wall of books and they
calmed everything in the room, even...”
– Saskia Hamilton, “Zwijgen” (via the-final-sentence)
“You are young,” replied Athos; “and your bitter recollections have time to...”
– Alexandre Dumas, from The Three Musketeers (thanks, irreverentoxymoron)
“A peninsula of storytelling, where the horizon tugs at my heart and where the...”
– Sarah Winman, from When God Was a Rabbit (thanks, syntactically)
Just Call Me Jen: American by birth, Southern by... →
justcallmegin:
This is an often heard saying here in the south. I’m sure some, if not most, of you rolled your eyes and uttered a “whatever” in response. The thing is - it’s true. There is just something about living in the South that I love. And first let me point out that Hollywood never gets the south right….
chinchillaghosts:
wivernryder:
chinchillaghosts:
heyfunnie:
why is bob short for robert
how does one get ‘billy’ out of ‘william’?
How in hell do you get “Dick” from “Richard”?
you ask him nicely
“[I remember more than I can tell.
I remember heaven.]
I remember hell.”
– Mary Ruefle, from “I Remember, I Remember” (via cynicismbedamned)
“She ran to him and knew she was home for good.”
– Fannie Flagg, from Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven (thanks, mjimnothingfollows)
