February 2012
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Death Cab for Cutie
I just got home from their concert. I have been amazed. They sound fantastic. They sound like they do on their records, and given how much I love their records, that’s a massive compliment. Crooked teeth, soul meets body, tiny vessels, transatlanticism, I will possess your heart - all so fantastic.
But the one thing I have not got a large enough vocabulary for is how Ben Gibbard sang...
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Why grasp for a crack of the sky when you can have the whole thing?
– The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants by Ann Brashares
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Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and...
– Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is...
– Notes of a Native Son by James Baldwin
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Go with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.
– The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
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In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be...
– Simone de Beauvoir
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If then, if you have lived in despair, then whatever else you won or lost, for...
– The Sickness Unto Death by Soren Kierkegaard
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Books are my friends, where it’s okay to be silent, where you’re not...
– Sickened by Julie Gregory
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Chemistry is so undefinable, so random. But it is everything.
– Next Summer by Hailey Abbott
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If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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How is it possible to miss a woman whom you kept at a distance, so that when she...
– Shopgirl by Steve Martin
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At heart, he could not abide sense in women: he liked to see them as silly, as...
– Shirley by Charlotte Bronte
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Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the...
– Shel Silverstein
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May and I are sisters. We’ll always fight, but we’ll always make up...
– Shanghai Girls by Lisa See
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I wish I could turn my sadness into something beautiful. I wish I was one of those people who could write a song or draw something amazing or even play a beautiful piece of music. I wish I could properly understand why I’m so sad right now. Maybe if I understood it, I could stop.
All it seems I can do right now though, is be sad.
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I think about how I think I know a person then ‘poof!’ I discover I...
– Shampoo Planet by Douglas Coupland
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He pulls me around and kisses me. “You’re Mac,” he says....
– Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning
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“We can’t…” he told me.
“I know,” I agreed....
– Shadow Kiss by Richelle Mead
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I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.
– Sexing the Cherry by Jeanette Winterson
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Drinks
So today after work, there were drinks for some people who are leaving who I don’t know but hey, free bar tab. Anyway, we get down there and they introduce me to someone and he’s really hot. And then, sure enough, he’s one of the guys leaving. GREAT.
Then later on this girl introduces me to this other guy. And he looks a little bit like Castiel on Supernatural. And he has a...
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Life is rarely about what happened; it’s mostly about what we think happened.
– Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman
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I admit it’s tempting to wish for the perfect boss, the perfect parent, or...
– Sex and the City
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I had even purposely chosen relationships that I knew would have a limited shelf...
– My Legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle
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This was the tree, and it seemed to me standing there to resemble those men, the...
– A Separate Peace by John Knowles
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She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys,...
– Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
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That is what is wrong with cold people. Not that they have ice in their souls -...
– Self-Help by Lorrie Moore
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