apr 4 2009 ∞
sep 5 2010 +
  • "heavy with submerged intent" ("The Secret Goldfish", David Means)
  • "physical manifestation of a fact" ("The Secret Goldfish", David Means)
  • "imbued with a melancholy philosophy" ("Minuet", Guy de Maupassant)
  • "elemental simplicity" (forgot)
  • "Soon she would see him clearly and understand her mistake" ("Awake", Tobias Wolff)
  • "Ain't it sad now, ain't it true, there's no more place for me and you, but space is low, there's no space in this realm," ("No Space in This Realm" by Akron/Family)
  • "I just can't get out of what I'm into with you," ("All We Ask" by Grizzly Bear)
  • "moon logic"
  • "I like to ride in trains too much. You never get to sit next to the window any more when you're married." ( Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger)
  • No One Belongs Here More Than You (novel by Miranda July)
  • "But on the very threshold of sleep, in the no-man’s-land of muddled concepts, he was suddenly certain he had just discovered the solution to all riddles, the key to all mysteries, a new utopia, a paradise," ( The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera)
  • "Our laughter kept the feathers in the air." ( Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer)
  • "Only unfulfilled love can be romantic." ( Vicky Christina Barcelona)
  • "The greatest lie ever told about love is that it sets you free." ( On Beauty, Zadie Smith)
  • "Like any successful politician, Palin is adept at making lemons into lemonade. But it was left to her champion William Kristol to whip the item into a lemon chiffon cake." (Geoff Nunberg, NPR article, "Refudiate? Repudiate? Let's Call The Whole Thing Off" http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128950842 )
  • "Il faut cultiver son jardin." ( Candide by Voltaire)
  • "For all my education, accomplishments and so-called wisdom, I can't fathom my own heart." (Elliot in Hannah and Her Sisters)