March 2012
67 posts
February 2012
76 posts
To be alive at all is to have scars.
– John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent (via honeyforthehomeless)
Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It...
– Neil Gaiman (via writeinspace)
Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves.
– Romans 12:10 (via breanna-lynn)
You have been the last dream of my soul.
– Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (via bewitchingbritain)
breanna-lynn asked: I hope you don't mind I published your prayer request, I wanted others to be able to pray, too. How are you doing? Thank you so much for your kinds, and for following my blog. I would love to talk to you and see how things are going, especially with this situation. I'm believing with you God will work all things for good.
She writes like she’s starving and reads like she’s feasting.
– R.D. Larson (via thenocturnals)
I think songwriters are more related to fiction writers. The Odyssey was a story...
– Regina Spektor (via bookshavepores)
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the...
– C.S. Lewis (via missjamielauren)
I’m not fascinated by people who smile all the time. What I find interesting is...
– Unknown (via katyjean)
What would be the point of living if we didn’t let life change us?
– Carlson, Downton Abbey (via hereticnarrative)
It’s crazy to think that a year ago we were friends. And now we don’t even speak. To be honest, I don’t think about you that often. Life has gotten in the way. I’ve moved on and so have you. But when I do think of you, my heart mourns for those times when we shared the best friends’ moments, laughter, tears, and prayers. And at those times I miss you. Maybe someday...
I’m an optimist. It doesn’t seem too much use being anything else.
– Winston Churchill
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love...
– Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
Middlemarch
This semester I am working on my final senior thesis, my last requirement to graduate with my Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. Picking a work and a topic to focus has been extremely stressful, mostly because I want to pick something I love and am willing to work on for an entire semester. Also, because, I am hoping to use my thesis as my writing sample for graduate schools and jobs in the...
At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet
– Plato (via perceelee)