apr 6 2013 ∞
apr 6 2013 +
- Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
- Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
- Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
- Every sentence must do one of two things—reveal character or advance the action.
- Start as close to the end as possible.
- Be a Sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them—in order that the reader may see what they are made of.
- Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
- Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To hell wit...
sep 9 2012 ∞
sep 9 2012 +
- "How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard." -Winnie the Pooh
- "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
- "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."
- "Life is infinitely stranger than anything the mind could ever invent." -Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- "It takes a great deal of courage to see the world in all of its tainted glory and still love it." -Oscar Wilde
jun 6 2012 ∞
jun 6 2012 +
- sin embargo (two meanings--one in english, one in spanish)
apr 14 2012 ∞
apr 14 2012 +
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- the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy
- romeo + juliet
- schindler's list
- ballet shoes
- brokeback mountain
- once
- nick drake
- the sting
- requiem for a dream
- gattaca
- the king's speech
- source code
- one tree hill
- driving lessons
- life of pi
- forrest gump
- good will hunting
- changeling
- salt
- a thousand splendid suns
- prodigal summer
sep 11 2010 ∞
jul 31 2014 +
- “I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- “She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time. ”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- I love you, but I most certainly do not like you.
- "Where you used to be, there is a hole...
aug 31 2012 ∞
mar 7 2013 +
- Sometimes I wake up grumpy; other times I let her sleep.
- Dyslexics Of The World Untie.
- i miss you like a retard misses the point.
- You're about as useful as a one-legged man in an arse kicking contest.
- Yo momma's so fat, she walked past the TV and i missed the first season of Lost.
- Before you insult a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you insult him, you'll be a mile away, and have his shoes.
- The reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
may 9 2012 ∞
may 23 2012 +
- useful as balls on a dildo
- tough as woodpecker lips
- runching
jun 11 2014 ∞
jun 11 2014 +
- toska, mainly because of Nabokov's description of it:
"No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom."
apr 15 2012 ∞
apr 15 2012 +
- before-school peer tutoring
- 6 years sj orch (get seat placements)
- 26th
- 17th
- 20th
- 39th
- 31st
- 15th
- 1 year state orch (30th)
- pit orch 2 years
- chamber orchestra 4 years
- kumon
- nursing home recitals
- spring blood drive
- FOP
- summer internship NIH
- penn internship 2 years
- eastside art staff
- 2011 coriell 1st place, 2011 delval 2nd p...
mar 25 2012 ∞
sep 21 2012 +
- quaff- to drink a beverage, especially an intoxicating one, copiously and with hearty enjoyment.
- quincunx n. an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
- syzygy
- cwm
- sprachgefuhl
sep 19 2011 ∞
may 30 2012 +
- you must be the square root of negative one, because you cannot be real.
- i wish you were my knee so i could bang you on my coffee table.
- you like sleep? so do i. let's do it together.
- baby, i know my chemistry and you've got one significant figure.
- is your name google? because you're everything I've been searching for.
- how much did you pay for those pants? you could get them 100% off at my place.
- you must be the square root of two because i feel irrational around you.
- don't ever change. just get naked.
- if you're feeling down, i can feel you up.
- you're so hot, even my pants are falling for you.
- forget about spiderman, superman and batman. i'll be your man.
nov 1 2011 ∞
feb 19 2012 +
jul 7 2011 ∞
sep 4 2011 +
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- sisterhood everlasting
- the reader
- the lacuna
- prodigal summer
- the namesake
jul 8 2012 ∞
aug 31 2012 +
- Persimmons, by Li-Young Lee
- Forgetfulness, by Billy Collins
apr 14 2012 ∞
may 20 2012 +
- The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
-Ernest Hemingway
nov 8 2011 ∞
nov 8 2011 +
- chronicle
- inception
- high school musical
- hunger games
- 21 jump street
- finding nemo
- memento
- the reader
- the bridge
- friends (with benefits)
feb 11 2012 ∞
aug 10 2012 +
- spirited away
- ferris bueller's day off
- the social network
- december boys
- black swan
- pan's laberinth (el laberinto del fauno)
- fight club
- kung fu panda 2
- coach carter
- mr. and mrs. smith
- tangled
- how i met your mother seasons 1-6
- (500) Days of Summer
- like crazy
- the muppets
- rush hour
jan 27 2011 ∞
dec 28 2011 +
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