January 2012
225 posts
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“No amount of coffee, no amount of crying
No amount of whiskey, no amount of...”
– “Gotta Have You” - The Weepies
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You know you're Catholic when...
“And also with your spirit” becomes a running joke in your family.
…It might take us a while to get the hang of this.
December 2011
99 posts
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But seas between us broad have roared since auld...
I never really believed in New Year’s resolutions, possibly because I’ve never been able to keep them. They’re like candles, really, burning bright until they run out of wick and then, suddenly, gone. I’ve meant to make changes every year since I was ten years old. Most of the years were: I’ll be skinny by next year. This time next year, I’ll be thin.
Being at...
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I have now seen Inglorious Basterds three times in...
…not really upset about this, though : )
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“Whatever you are physically… male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy—all...”
– Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Angel (via larmoyante)
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“Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be...”
– C. S. Lewis (via larmoyante)
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Grab the book nearest to you
Open page 74
Find the second sentence of the third paragraph
Post it
“In answer, he gives an almost imperceptible shake of his head”
I read a lot of books in school that I didn't...
The Great Gatsby
Of Mice and Men
The Things They Carried
The Madonnas of Leningrad
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Odyssey
Slaughterhouse Five
And so many more.
And it’s strange because I look back on them now and it’s like seeing the time you met your current best-friend at a party. And you shook hands and chatted for a little while but it was awkward, and you were distracted, and...
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I thought about you, last night
I think about you a lot, actually. Even when I don’t mean to.
Especially when I don’t mean to.
I think of everything we said in those hours we talked, when we both probably should have been reading or sleeping or writing or translating or any other crazy things students of classics ought to be doing at midnight and one, two in the morning. I think about the soft, misty rain that was...
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Set Fire to the Rain
“She didn’t dare to look up, but she could feel their frightened eyes hanging on...”
– The Book Thief, Markus Zusak (via booklit)
Today was good
1.) Tim Horton’s. Again. : )
2.) Went to a vintage dress store with my mother and sisters
3.) Where I got a 50s party dress that’s absolutely beautiful (and perfect for our waltz parties), a 60s Oscar de la Renta dress, and a black wool 60s dress as well as an oddball assortment of old gloves and hats ‘cause they were pretty.
4.) New shoes. And they’re gorgeous....
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“He jests at scars that never felt a wound”
– Romeo - Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
Random Fact About Me: People think my friends and...
…the fact that my friend once quacked at a public safety officer probably didn’t help.
Two churches located across the street from each...
anchortomysoul:
tithenai:
wizasaur:
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ultraball:
paranoidrobot:
…Do the Presbyterians think Rocks are animals?
ALL ROCKS GO TO HEAVEN
CONVERTING TO CATHOLICISM DOES NOT MAGICALLY GRANT YOUR DOG A SOUL.
WOW. EPIC CATHOLIC WIN.
I LOVE THIS.
BAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
“The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.”
– Oscar Wilde (via confessionalpoet)