January 2012
10 posts
Profile: Effie Trinket
thecapitolcouture:
EFFIE TRINKET
HER TRIBUTES AREN’T THE ONLY THINGS TO LOOK FORWARD TO THIS SEASON.
With a keen eye towards cutting edge trends and a willingness to break boundaries, Capitol-born style icon and District 12 Escort Effie Trinket has been a fashion pioneer since her very first Hunger Games. She has been known to take the iconic building blocks of contemporary Capitol fashion...
“Does character develop over time? In novels, of course it does; otherwise there...”
– The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (via 52books)
No Great Illusion: Standoffish →
nogreatillusion:
When the heat goes off in my apartment, as it regularly does these days, I know it even in my sleep. Coming out of a dream, I burrow deeper under my quilt. I let the sheet cover my ears and hug my knees to my chest. I do it without thinking, without ever opening my eyes. I entreat the dream to…
I would usually post just one quote from nogreatillusion, but I loved this...
“The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The...”
– DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #64: Tiny Beautiful Things - The Rumpus.net (via leopoldgursky)
God let us hope so.
“6. Your health is suddenly a big deal. In the past when I got sick I’d think,...”
– “Top Ten Signs That You’re an Adult” by Almie Rose (via hellogiggles via nogreatillusion)
Hilarious and also so true.
“It is the dark, insidious source of my depression at waking to find myself...”
– No Great Illusion
Exactly. Yes, exactly that.
Go read this whole post. It is what being a Mellinial in your 20’s - believing that you can “be anything you want to be” and “do anything you want to do” and that “you are special” and coming face to face with...
“It was like stepping into the pages of a book - a book alive with color and...”
– The Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
Very sweet interview with Daniel Radcliffe from... →
December 2011
5 posts
“The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together...”
– Alain de Botton, On Love (via eastatlanta)
“He heard a strange rumbling, different from before, and it took him a minute to...”
– A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
“The last thing she felt herself to be was sensible or reasonable. She had just...”
– The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
“The window gave onto a view of dove-gray roofs and balconies, each one...”
– The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
Ah Paris.
“There was, in short, this mid-size but still portable library representing...”
– The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides. — I feel like I’m going to be quoting a lot from this book.
November 2011
6 posts
“I am, moreover, a liberal with a lifelong habit of opting out of the political...”
– The Livestream Ended: How I Got Off My Computer And Onto The Street At Occupy Oakland | The Awl (via peterwknox)
“Live-Action Role-Playing Spells I Could Really Use, Right Now.
BY Daniel...”
– Hahahaha. Oh McSweeny’s
“This is the beginning of sadness, I say to myself,
as I walk through the...”
– Turning Ten by Billy Collins
“Every day the body works in the fields of the world
mending a stone wall
or...”
– The Night House by Billy Collins
“Stories have changed, my dear boy,” the man in the grey suit says, his...”
– The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
October 2011
7 posts
“Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great Way. Our depression is out...”
– Or very, very sad.
From Fight Club via Generation Me by Jean M. Wenge
“Jane had occasionally tried to develop her own hidden depths, but she never...”
– The Penderwicks at Point Mouette by Jeanne Birdsall
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Let me tell you something about Heathcliff. →
thestarkinwinterfell:
We were best friends in middle school. I know, right? It’s so embarrassing. I don’t even… Whatever. So then in eighth grade, I started going out with my first boyfriend Edgar who was totally gorgeous but more different from me than a moonbeam from lightening, and Heathcliff was like, weirdly jealous of him. Like, if I would blow him off to hang out with Edgar, he’d be like,...
8 tags
“The library always smells like this:
an ancient stew of vinegar and wood.
It’s...”
– Dorothea Grossman, In the Library (via grammatolatry)
Yay the library!
“We only write about two feelings: one is the first day of summer when you and...”
– The Drums (via atomos)
No Great Illusion: Quarter Life Or Something Like... →
nogreatillusion:
When you are younger, you imagine your life at twenty five with the sort of careless hopefulness one projects upon the distant future. You imagine that you will be rich. That you will be loved. That you will be thin, and poised, and successful, and your hair will finally swing like a Pantene commercial. You do not imagine that you will still be leaving your clothes on the floor....
September 2011
6 posts
“The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult,...”
– Katharine Hepburn (via venebelle)
“How does anybody fill their day? The truth is you fill your day, most of the...”
– Dylan Moran (via ricktimus)
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– Still, despite the dismay that so many feel when they imagine a generation of readers more comfortable staring at a screen than flipping pages, hoping to stem change through vehement objection is probably futile. This is the way the industry is shifting, the natural course it will run with new...
No Great Illusion: You must say words, as long as... →
You must say words, as long as there are any - until they find me, until they say me. (Strange pain! Strange sin!) You must go on. Perhaps it’s done already. Perhaps they have said me already. Perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story. (That would surprise me, if it opens.)
It will be I? It will be the silence, where I am? I don’t know, I’ll...
August 2011
12 posts
1 tag
8 tags
“You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot...”
– Elizabeth Taylor (via nogreatillusion)
“In a way, it is like teaching a child to float: Lie back, and somehow the water...”
– Michael Gerson
(via nogreatillusion)
“Idly, I considered taking up bad habits. Cigarettes, for example. Cocaine, for...”
– Nogreatillusion
“..in life, you can either ask for what you want and suffer the possibility of...”
– the morning news: here is everything i learned in new york city via jenbee
read in its entirety, as this is all very true. i know much of it & am battling a few bullet points. clarity.
also — “..this kind of thinking will make you miserable, because you will always feel the life you deserve is...
“He loved her, he loved her, and until he’d loved her she had never minded being...”
– Truman Capote (via dira)
This was me today.
“What matters most is how well
you walk through the fire.”
– Charles Bukowski (via grammatolatry)
Not well, Charles. Not well at all.
July 2011
8 posts
““So what am I supposed to do?”
“The only thing you can. Grow up.”
“I don’t...”
– Huraki Murakami, Dance Dance Dance (via heylabodega)
“The very impulse to write, I think, springs from an inner chaos crying for...”
– Arthur Miller (via asireallyam)