Tagged: favourite.
May 22nd, 2013
Cold sinks in, there to stay. And people, they’ll leave you, sure. There’s no return to what was and no way back. There’s just emptiness all around, and you in it, like singing up from the bottom of a well, like nothing else, until you harm yourself, until you are a mad dog biting yourself for sympathy. Because there is no relenting.
The Bingo Palace by Louise Erdich

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[Quote] [Book Quote] [1994] [The Bingo Palace] [Louise Erdich] [favourite]
May 21st, 2013
I came to you one rainless August night.
You taught me how to live without the rain.
You are thirst and thirst is all I know.
You are sand, wind, sun, and burning sky,
The hottest blue. You blow a breeze and brand
Your breath into my mouth. You reach—then bend
Your force, to break, blow, burn, and make me new.
You wrap your name tight around my ribs
And keep me warm. I was born for you.
Above, below, by you, by you surrounded.
I wake to you at dawn. Never break your
Knot. Reach, rise, blow, Sálvame, mi dios,
Trágame, mi tierra. Salva, traga, Break me,
I am bread. I will be the water for your thirst.
To the Desert by Benjamin Alire Saenz

∞04:30 am, by lostinthesounds ∩16
[Poetry] [To the Desert] [Benjamin Alire Saenz] [favourite]
May 20th, 2013
Excerpt from “The Constant of the Universe” by Andy Weaver

Excerpt from “The Constant of the Universe” by Andy Weaver

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  ∞07:30 am, by lostinthesounds ∩8
[Poetry] [Excerpt] [The Constant of the Universe] [Andy Weaver] [Picture] [lostinthesounds] [favourite]
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[Picture] [PostSecret] [Post Secret] [favourite]
May 19th, 2013
Calvin & Hobbes

Calvin & Hobbes

∞12:00 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩67
[Calvin and Hobbes] [Bill Watterson] [Cartoon] [Picture] [favourite]
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∞03:00 am, by lostinthesounds ∩11
[PostSecret] [Post Secret] [Picture] [favourite]
May 12th, 2013
It is not the diamonds or the birds, the people or the potatoes; it is not any of the nouns. The miracle is the adverbs, the way things are done. It is the way love gets done despite every catastrophe.
Adverbs by Daniel Handler

∞09:00 am, by lostinthesounds ∩25
[Quote] [Book Quote] [Adverbs] [Daniel Handler] [2006] [favourite]
Excerpt from “The Cinnamon Peeler” by Michael Ondaatje

Excerpt from “The Cinnamon Peeler” by Michael Ondaatje

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  ∞04:30 am, by lostinthesounds ∩9
[The Cinnamon Peeler] [Micahel Ondaatje] [Excerpt] [Poetry] [favourite]
Because I have no right to read her love poems.
Because I’ve forgotten the geography of a woman’s shoulder, how hard
and brittle in places, how supple and stemlike in others.
Because my desire alone isn’t enough for both of us.
Because if I showed her the stars at night, she might see them as
nothing but light cracking through a frail wall, and I’d have no words to
comfort her.
Excerpt from “The Constant of the Universe” by Andy Weaver

∞03:00 am, by lostinthesounds ∩25
[Excerpt] [Poetry] [The Constant of the Universe] [Andy Weaver] [favourite]
May 11th, 2013
And I have tried to forget him, I have tried to convince myself that it was just one of those things, but it’s difficult to do that when my body is standing here, eight feet deep in the earth of northern France, while my heart remains by a stream in a clearing in England where I left it weeks ago.
The Absolutist by John Boyne

∞10:30 pm, by lostinthesounds ∩27
[Quote] [Book Quote] [The Absolutist] [John Boyne] [2011] [favourite]
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