January 2010
8 posts
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The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter (by Ezra Pound)
While my hair was still cut straight across my forehead I played about the front gate, pulling flowers. You came by on bamboo stilts, playing horse, You walked about my seat, playing with blue plums. And we went on living in the village of Chōkan: Two small people, without dislike or suspicion. At fourteen I married My Lord you. I never laughed,...
Sparks, Nicholas (2006). Dear John.
S: You say that like you don't think I want the same thing.
J: To be honest, I'm not sure you do.
“Coming down, the world turned over. And angels fall without you there.”
– Goo Goo Dolls
From Nicholas Sparks' novel, Dear John:
Time is relative. I know I’m not the first to realize it and far from the most famous, and my realization had nothing to do with energy or mass or the speed of light or anything else Einstein might have postulated. Rather, it had to do with the drag of hours while I waited for Savannah.
After my dad and I finished dinner, I thought about her; I thought of her again as soon after I woke. I...
December 2009
89 posts
“Losing your hearts desire is tragic, but gaining it? It’s all you can hope for....”
– Peyton Sawyer (OTH) (via quote-book) (via lovebot)
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman (via quotewhore)