Shirty, the slightly aggressive bear

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Thu, 24 May 2012 05:33:23 +1000

"If we forget who we lost, then we forget who we once were, and if we forget who we once were, we..."

Thu, 24 May 2012 03:30:59 +1000

“If we forget who we lost, then we forget who we once were, and if we forget who we once were, we lose sight of who we are now.”

- Froi of the Exiles by Melina Marchetta

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Thu, 24 May 2012 01:41:11 +1000

"Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live..."

Wed, 23 May 2012 22:12:21 +1000

“Pain is the feeling. Suffering is the effect the pain inflicts. If one can endure pain, one can live without suffering. If one can withstand pain, one can withstand anything. If one can learn to control pain, one can learn to control oneself.”

- My Friend Leonard by James Frey

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Wed, 23 May 2012 20:20:15 +1000

"It’s everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don’t know — not wrong, or..."

Wed, 23 May 2012 18:28:20 +1000

“It’s everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don’t know — not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and — sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you’re conforming just as much only in a different way.”

- Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger

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Wed, 23 May 2012 16:37:45 +1000

"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."

Wed, 23 May 2012 14:47:15 +1000

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”

- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

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Wed, 23 May 2012 12:56:58 +1000

"My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting,..."

Wed, 23 May 2012 11:05:06 +1000

“My eyes are vague blue, like the sky, and change all the time; they are indiscriminate but fleeting, entirely specific and disloyal, so that no one trusts me. I am always looking away. Or again at something after it has given me up.”

- Meditations in an Emergency by Frank O’Hara

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Wed, 23 May 2012 09:13:01 +1000

My first thought this morning, after figuring out what song was playing as my alarm, was ‘I get to...

Wed, 23 May 2012 08:56:34 +1000

My first thought this morning, after figuring out what song was playing as my alarm, was ‘I get to see you today’. I just started smiling, and honestly I haven’t stopped.

"Sometimes you fall, spinning through space, grasping for the things that keep you on this earth...."

Wed, 23 May 2012 07:24:45 +1000

“Sometimes you fall, spinning through space, grasping for the things that keep you on this earth. Sometimes you catch them. They can be the hands of the people you love. They can be your pets- pups with funny names, cats with ferocious old souls. The thing that keeps you here can be your art. It can be things you have collected and invested with a certain sense of meaning. A flowered, buckled treasure chest of secrets. Shoes that make you taller and, therefore, closer to the heavens. A suit that belonged to your fairy godmother. A dress that makes you feel a little like the Goddess herself.
Sometimes you keep falling; you don’t catch anything.
Sometimes you fall, spinning through space, grasping for the things that keep you here. Sometimes you catch them. Sometimes you don’t.
Sometimes they catch you.”

- Necklace of Kisses by Francesca Lia Block

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Wed, 23 May 2012 05:33:09 +1000

"Perhaps I have not really a good temper at all, but if you have everything you want and everyone is..."

Wed, 23 May 2012 03:42:11 +1000

“Perhaps I have not really a good temper at all, but if you have everything you want and everyone is kind to you, how can you help but be good-tempered? Perhaps I’m a hideous child, and no one will ever know, just because I never have any trials.”

- A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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Wed, 23 May 2012 01:45:31 +1000

"Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds’ eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also..."

Tue, 22 May 2012 22:11:22 +1000

“Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds’ eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger or more lasting than twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks. Or they are words on the air, composed of sounds and ideas-abstract, invisible, gone once they’ve been spoken-and what could be more frail than that? But some stories, small, simple ones about setting out on adventures or people doing wonders, tales of miracles and monsters, have outlasted all the people who told them, and some of them have outlasted the lands in which they were created.”

- Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman

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Tue, 22 May 2012 20:18:25 +1000

"The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you..."

Tue, 22 May 2012 18:28:00 +1000

“The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can’t see, whose beginning you’ve forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable.”

- Foxfire by Joyce Carol Oates

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Tue, 22 May 2012 16:37:27 +1000