December 2008
25 posts
Baz Luhrmann Going 'Gatsby' →
“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge & lean over to watch...”
– A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh (via thoughtsdetained)
The Velveteen Rabbit
ineedtoo:
allthiscanbeyours: (via alanajoy)
“What is REAL?” asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. ”Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?”
“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. ”It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not...
“We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One...”
– John Steinbeck. (via electriceye) (via thoughtsdetained)
“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word.”
– Stephen King (via ronenreblogs)
The Complete Calvin & Hobbes, free, online →
soupsoup:
drned: (via alextypical)
“Touching him was always so important to me. It was something I lived for....”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via apologies). (via longwinter) (via dilaudid)
“[When Vonnegut tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope] Oh, she says...”
– (via youroldarchenemycatwoman) (via breathsoftruth) (via lovebot) (via ashleygibson)
NY Times Names 10 Best Books of '08 →
mascarah:
Stocking stuffers? =)
(via adeandabet)
Best book cover design of 2008 →
buyhercandy:
semisetadrift:
(via sunili)
So I really need to buy some of these.
“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
– Augusten Burroughs (via thresca) (via thoughtsdetained)
“My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me.
‘Speak to me. Why do you...”
– T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland (via vruz) (via theotherbutterflyeffect) (via rgeissler)