May 2012
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April 2012
“She smelled like California before everyone went west. When California was just...”
– Amber Dermont, The Starboard Sea (via thebronzemedal)
“What happened is, we grew lonely
living among the things,
so we gave the clock...”
– Lisel Mueller, “Things” (via fleurishes)
“No, my soul is not asleep.
It is awake, wide awake.
It neither sleeps nor...”
– Antonio Machado
(via moreofamore)
“I know it’s 2012, but it sure feels like 1984 in this House today.”
– Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) on Thursday, after the House of Representatives passed CISPA, which critics argue undermines basic privacy rights.
Learn everything you need to know about CISPA.
(via think-progress)
“The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.”
– Mary Stewart , The Crystal Cave (via heartmindawakening)
“This was once a love poem,
before its haunches thickened, its breath grew...”
– “This Was Once A Love Poem,” Jane Hirshfield (via clavicola)
“The oceans remind me
of your room.
There are things unbearable.”
– Anne Carson, from “Stanzas, Sexes, Seductions” (adapted from rabbit-light)
“How can a political party be so dumb as to piss off Hispanics, women, and young...”
– Robert Reich (via azspot)
“The end of any history is a lie in which we all agree to conspire.”
– Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride (via proustitute)
“Begin with that most terrifying of all things, a clean slate. Then look, every...”
– Anna Quindlen, 1999 Mount Holyoke Commencement Speech (via le-toit)
Tomorrow: Anna Quindlen
(via nprfreshair)
“It’s the same thing with rap. This thing is fierce, and it can be all fun, or it...”
– Hip-hop legend Rakim, on music. (via theatlantic)
“I wanna know what you see when you look in the mirror on a day you’re feeling...”
– Andrea Gibson (via thepajamawarrior)
“For the first eight years of our marriage, [Michelle and I] were paying more in...”
– President Obama in North Carolina today on why Congress has to act to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling (via barackobama) 