January 2012
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“Time jumps. It leaps. It pours away like water through fingers.”
– Lauren Oliver, Delirium
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December 2011
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lullabyxo asked: I haaaaate that I can't ask you things anonymously! I was all set to come here and write you some Taylor Hanson/Harry Potter fan fiction, but the fun is lost if you know it was me. Because obv you never would have guessed.
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November 2011
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“Hundreds of years ago, the village relied solely on fishing. I have a book of...”
– Simon Van Booy, “Distant Ships” in The Secret Lives of People in Love
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“How do you commemorate a year?
A paper anniversary, but we are
the words...”
– David Levithan, the realm of possibility
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October 2011
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“Wakings are the worst times - almost before my eyes are open a great weight...”
– Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
lullabyxo asked: I've just googled 'How to make someone stop loving you' for research purposes and have found a SPELL for that exact thing. I might do it. For research. Maybe this is now a WITCH BOOK. (It isn't).
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“…every step took us deeper into the mist until at last it closed over our...”
– Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
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“When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost...”
– Dodie Smith, I Capture the Castle
lullabyxo asked: I came here to ask you anonymously why "Taylor Hanson leaving his baby on the subway" doesn't give me any google results. Alas, I can't anonymously message you, so imagine I'm wearing a mask :p
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“A book which is left on a shelf is a dead thing but it is also a chrysalis, an...”
– Susan Hill, Howards End is on the Landing
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“Too much internet useage fragments the brain and dissipates concentration so...”
– Susan Hill, Howards End is on the Landing
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There are some things that I’ve watched about a bajillion times and so think it will be a nice background that wont completely distract me from the task at hand. One of these is RENT (both broadway and the movie) and the other is the *NSYNC Popodyssey tour. Every single time I abandon my task because I cannot stop watching the show on my computer, and every time I fail to learn my lesson.
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Hearing Idina Menzel sing For Good without a microphone at the Royal Albert Hall was one of those moments that made me look around and be happy to be alive, and present, and truly blessed.
Ava, you’re getting increasingly drunk right now, but I’m proud of you, and so very thankful for that boyband that brought you into my life 7 years ago. Here’s to more successes, and our...
September 2011
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“A Cue from Nature
Run outside during a thunderstorm
That downpour, that...”
– David Levithan, the realm of possibility
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kevin7:
For the last ten minutes I’ve been...
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“There are tears inside her that nobody can stop.
But there are so many other...”
– David Levithan, the realm of possibility
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“For a moment I could imagine what it would be like to be a ghost - to walk...”
– Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World
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“We become the stories we tell about ourselves.”
– Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World
August 2011
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“The secret of flight is this - you have to do it immediately, before your body...”
– Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World
Every time I find myself able to read for my own pleasure without feelings of guilt about neglecting uni work, my reading becomes erratic. I pick up books and put them down again after a few pages simply because there are so many books that I want...
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It's 7.51 am
I haven’t been to bed. But I am currently printing out my MA dissertation. I am feeling something like relief, mixed with fear that my ink will run out before I’ve finished printing 2 copies of 47 pages each.
Normal tumblring to resume shortly. Thank you for your patience!
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Ava has been sending me inspirational texts to help me through the “argh I have a week left to write half of my dissertation” stage of essay writing. She says they’re going to get more philosophical as the day wears on. They started with:
“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t, you’re right”
“What lies behind us and what lies before us...
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“Dori Seda never met Lester Bangs. Two simple real-life acts of human caring, at...”
– Bruce Sterling, “Dori Bangs” in Globalhead
I found this at the end of an essay in The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction and I thought that it was beautiful. I’m definitely going to seek out this book of short stories.
July 2011
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“Those who pay the costs are rarely those who reap the benefits.”
– E. H. Carr, in his series of lectures collected under the title What is History?
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“There’s a spring wind blowing across the mountains. I’d like to be a...”
– Frank Wedekind, Spring Awakening