- try until you can't
- always say yes to whatever makes you nervous in a good way
- compose poems aloud
- sleep when you can
- the pressure is good for you
- turn soft and lovely anytime you have a chance
- one at a time, one at a time
- you will do as much as you are given
- scrape your knees, it's only skin
- try a rose-colored life / be peachy
- "no matter what"
- stay eager
- it is ok for me to have everything i want
- "why not?"
- grow / move forward
- sit straight
- you must want it enough + you work hard
- write and be prolific
jul 22 2012 ∞
jan 1 2013 +
- Bluets by Maggie Nelson
- We, The Drowned by Carsten Jensen
- [x] Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- [x] Peter Pan by J.M Barrie
- [x] Fahrenheit 415 by Ray Bradbury
- [x] The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
- I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
- [x] Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russel
- Crush by Richard Siken
- [x] The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
- The Diary of Anne Frank
- [x] The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
- [x] The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- [x] The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- [x] Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
feb 13 2011 ∞
apr 8 2013 +
from: http://bit.ly/Y10h0O
- The Distillery District , founded in the mid 1800’s and was once the largest distillery in the world. Now home to lovely coffee houses (Balzac’s is the best), jazz events, poetry readings, and antique and art shops.
- Queen St. West and Kensington Market , for vintage wear/thrift stores (favorites: include The Black Market, Exile, Flashback)
- Kops record store
- Bloor St. West , for second-hand/cheap books (try BMV Books and keep your eye out for basement-book stores and other cozy corners on Bloor)
- The Royal Ontario Museum
- 7West cafe , a cozy three-story restaurant with the loveliest atmosphere, open 24/7. Visit at 3am on a weekday - there’s just something about listening to The Smiths songs playing and being surrounded by insomniacs.
feb 9 2013 ∞
feb 9 2013 +
- Calliope, for she is always seen with a writing tablet in her hand
- Pan, the god of the wild and rustic music
- Mnemosyne, the personification of memory
- Hestia, goddess of hearth and home
- Artemis, for she held deers sacred
- Prometheus, titan of forethought
- Athena, virgin goddess of wisdom
- Pandora, the first woman
nov 8 2011 ∞
nov 22 2012 +
- affected
- beckon
- mirth
- encapsulate
- oscillate
- contiguity
- nuance
- beckon
- impetus
- stimulus (as opposed to "motivation")
may 29 2011 ∞
feb 7 2013 +
- "Little Tranquility"
- [...] dear me, let us be elegant or die!
- There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in a corner till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.
- The two girls were a great deal to one another, but each took one of the younger into her keeping and watched over in her own way - "playing mother" they called it - and put their sister in the places of discarded dolls with the maternal instinct of little women.
- These girls . . . were constantly saying "If we only had this" or "If we could only do that" quite forgetting how much they already had, and how many pleasant things they could actually do. [...] So they a...
may 1 2012 ∞
may 4 2012 +
- hexagons
- head-ache and mind boggling books
- solitary walks on a fine day
- trips to the coffee shop and bookstore
- beautiful fonts
- fuzzy rabbits, elegant swans and deers, vicious Siberian tigers, proud wolves
- a full wallet, crisp bills
- women and our beautiful bones: scapulas, collarbones, spines
- nursery rhymes
- men and how they're all limbs and sharp edges
- wit
- British and Irish accent
- children's tale and children's wondrous curiosity
- dreamy voices of story tellers you'd almost believe carpets fly or fairies sing
- the sweet smell of the earth
- languages: French, Japanese
feb 19 2011 ∞
nov 22 2012 +
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- Ano Natsu de Matteru
- Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day
- Bokura Ga Ita
- C - The Money of Soul and the Possibility Control
- Cardcaptor Sakura
- Darker than Black
- Dennou Coil
- Durarara!!
- Full Metal Alchemist
- Gosick
- Honey and Clover
- Hotarubi no Mori e
- Hyouka
- Inu x Boku SS
- K
- Kokoro Connect
- Kuroko no Basket
- Kyousogiga
- No. 6
- Ouran Highschool Host Club
dec 30 2012 ∞
jan 18 2013 +
from: #1 issue of Thistle Magazine
- Deyrolles: a beautiful taxidermy and entomology shop
- the Rose Bakery in Montmartre
- the Arcades at the Palais Royale
- Shakespeare and Company
- Pere Lachaise cemetery
- the Musée Jacquemart André
- Pain d’Epice in Passage Jouffroy: an old-fashioned toyshop filled with baubles and trinkets
- Repetto on rue de la Paix: a shop full of the most beautiful ballet shoes. they shelf the slippers like books in a library and even have a rolling ladder to help them reach the high shelves
- Jardin des Tuileries: mostly for the most charming carousel and the smell of barde à papa. you can rent toy sailboats and have pony rides
- Monet’s waterlilies at the Musée de l’...
dec 25 2012 ∞
oct 25 2013 +
- cross the street
- lay my head on his back
- sit very still with him somewhere open or windy or green
- hug him from the back
- trace his jawlines
- fit my head in the crook of his neck and teach him where the acromion is
- kiss his nose, his forehead, the top of his head
- call out his name
- i want to make his bottom lip quiver
- to share music, to share our ears
may 10 2012 ∞
jan 17 2013 +
- Trelyn (mama's name)
- Nana
- Haru (boy)
- Vivien
- Olive / Olivia
- Pierre (boy)
- Anja
- Oliver (boy)
- Daisy
- Kiko
- Pavel (boy)
- Sofi
- Ekaterina
- Nikolai (boy)
- Piper (boy)
- Sumire
- Věra [vye-ra]
- Oleena
- Eden
- Dansk [dan-esk]
mar 13 2011 ∞
dec 23 2013 +
- Alice in Wonderland
- Peter Pan
- A Little Princess
- The Secret Garden
- A Series of Unfortunate Events (if that is ever considered)
- Winnie the Pooh
- The Three Questions
feb 13 2011 ∞
dec 28 2012 +
- Kiko Mizuhara
- Aoi Yu
- Jean Seberg
- Audrey Hepburn
- Zhang Xin Yuan
- Gloria Endres de Oliveira
- Andrea Munson
apr 12 2011 ∞
oct 13 2013 +
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- baby's breath
- daisies
- orléans ranunculus
jan 27 2013 ∞
mar 29 2013 +
- Lisbon, Portugal
- London, England
- Korea
- South France
- Prague, Czech Republic
- Kuching (literally translates as cat), Malaysia
- Ōkunoshima (often called Usagi Shima or Rabbit Island) and Ikebukuro, Japan
- Iceland
- Tulum
- Jiufen, Taipei / http://bit.ly/1hBONRc / http://bit.ly/1jKtE5W
- the village of Costa Nova do Prado in Aveiro, Portugal
to remember: http://yhoo.it/PbB06c
may 10 2012 ∞
apr 16 2014 +
find the list here: http://bit.ly/erDZ
- brood, to think alone
- chatoyant, like a cat's eye
- dulcet, sweet and sugary
- erstwhile, at one time, for a time
- fetching, pretty
- moiety, one of two equal parts
- onomatopoeia, a word that sounds like its meaning
- panacea, a solution for all problems
- pastiche, an art work combining materials from various sources
- petrichor, the smell of earth after the rain
- serendipity, finding something nice while looking for something else
- summery, light, delicate, or warm and sunny
dec 27 2011 ∞
dec 27 2011 +
- [...] for in this world everythingis pardoned in advance and therefore everything cynically permitted.
- [...] metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
- A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.
- Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes
- Es muss sein! (It must be so)
- Es könnte auch anders sein (It could just as well be otherwise)
- If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.
- Chance and Chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute.
nov 9 2011 ∞
dec 8 2011 +
- I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of preoccupation.
- Her father had taught her about hands. About a dog's paws. Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house he would lean over and smell the skin at the base of its paw. This, he would say, as if coming away from a brandy snifter, is the greatest smell in the world! A bouquet! Great rumours of wonder: the smell of it never suggested dirt. It's a cathedral! her father had said, so-and-so's garden, that field of grasses, a walk through cyclamen - a concentration of hints of all the paths the animal had taken during the day.
- He walked through sandstorms with this coat of bottles, his ears plugged with two ...
apr 18 2012 ∞
apr 18 2012 +
- Nijiiro Days
- Ouran High School Host Club
- Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun
- Tomodachi no Hanashi
- Yajirobee
- Hibi Chouchou
- Orange
- Horimiya
- Kinkyori Renai
- Majo to Boku
- Koukou Debut
- Sakamichi no Apollon
- 49
- Usagi Drop
- Stand Up!
- Mushishi
jan 13 2013 ∞
oct 13 2013 +
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