Nine

I stepped from plank to plank
So slow and cautiously;
The stars about my head I felt,
About my feet the sea.

I knew not but the next
Would be my final inch,--
This gave me that precarious gait
Some call experience.

-Emily Dickinson

I bought "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman and "The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson" this weekend. Best purchases ever. Its been a rough week, and whenever Im stressing out I grab one of those books and highlight my favorite verses. I seriously think I'm going to do that with all books from now on--something about 'lighting up' passages I like is therapeutic.

Hm just reread that and realized how nerdy I sounds

wow haha

“Kissing is a means of getting two people so close together that they can’t see anything wrong with each other.”

— Rene Yasenek

"If a violin string can ache, I was that string."

--Tolstoy



“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”

— Albert Einstein

"Truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction has to make sense."

--Lykke Li

^I found this website of 'literary tattoos'. So cool

"It’s a surer way to a woman’s heart to be interested in what she’s thinking than what she’s wearing or not wearing." --Tina Louise

"You can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can miss them."

--John Green




"We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?"
--Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury



"the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people."
--Henry Miller

Eight

"I love how your heart
is filled by so many but
still has room for me."

Daily Haiku on Love
by Tyler Knott

"It was one of those winter days that suddenly dream of spring, when the sky is blue and soft and clear, and the wind has dropped its voice and whispers instead of screaming, and the sun is out and the trees look surprised, and over everything there is the faintest, palest tint of green."

--Shirley Jackson

"A good writer writes well about what he knows.
A great writer writes even better about what he doesn’t."

--Alicia Law

"You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."

--C.S. Lewis


He fumbles at your soul
As players at the keys
Before they drop full music on
He stuns you by degrees--
Prepares your brittle Nature
for the Ethereal Blow
By fainter Hammers--further heard--
Then nearer--Then so slow
Your Breath has time to straighten
Your Brain--to bubble Cool--
Deals--One--Imperial--Thunderbolt
That scalps your naked Soul--
When Winds take Forests
in their Paws--
The Universe--is still--

-Emily Dickinson

"A thousand enemies outside the house are better than one within."
-Arab Proverb


"Experience; the most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my god do you learn."
-C.S. Lewis

^This post secret cracked me up.
I just love that someone was mad enough at Derek
to buy a stamp
and go to the mailbox
and let the word know
that Derek is a ton of B.S.
hahaha


"Give me a man who is man enough to give himself just to the woman who is worth him."
-Sienna Miller



"Affection is a word that Austen values over love. Affection between a woman and man, in Austen, is the more profound and lasting emotion."
--Harold Bloom, 1994


"I also think...that the reason no one married [Jane Austen]...was that it was all just too much. Something truly frightening rumbled there beneath the bubbling mirth: something capable of taking the world by its heels, and shaking it."
-Fay Weldon, 1984


"Human life is holy. All of it."
-Beloved


"In order to let go of the things that hurt us the most, we must let someone else in."
-Kairos.

Seven

"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."

-G.K. Chesterton

"Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place."

-Zora Neale Hurston


"When you’re a little kid you’re a bit of everything; Scientist, Philosopher, Artist. Sometimes it seems like growing up is giving these things up one at a time."
-The Wonder Years



“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”

— Ingrid Bergman
she was the lead in Casablanca. Favorite movie.

^My goodness, if every guy had the suave of Humphry Bogart
...I'd be pregnant.
Too far?

“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.”

— Albert Einstein

^Post Secret.

"For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible."

--Stuart Chase

"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."

--Peter Ustinov

"Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself."

--Lois McMaster Bujold

"There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved."

--Charles Morgan

Book Suggestion:
House On Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros


I feel in love with this book all over again when I re-read it this week. Granted, I feel kind of silly calling it one of my favorite books because its all about Hispanic culture and I am as white bread as they come--but the writing style is just captivating. Its so honest and thats hard to find--a book thats not trying to be something else, you know? Its so short you could read it in a half hour, and I love that it's not separated by chapters but instead by little vignettes--I'd love to write a book in that same vein...possibly about my college experiences...God knows I have enough material already hahah. Just go and read it okay? Half hour out of your day :) its worth it.

Six

"Time heals what reason cannot."

--Seneca

"Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart. If we could just remember this, I think there would be a lot more compassion and tolerance in the world."

--Frank Warren

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."

--Oscar Wilde

(Adolf Hitler..ack!)

"Confidence is 10% hard work and 90% delusion"

--Tina Fey

"People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."

--Elisabeth Kubler-Ross



“Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering.”
— Paulo Coelho

"Poetry is what gets lost in translation."

--Robert Frost

(Marylin Monroe)

“Some people never say the words ‘I love you’. It’s not their style to be so bold. Some people never say those words: ‘I love you’ But, like a child, they’re longing to be told.”

— Paul Simon

“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”

— Josephine Hart



"the right person is still going to think the sun shines out your ass. That’s the kind of person that’s worth sticking with."

--Juno

"What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life."

--Walt Whitman




"But it’s hard to stay mad, when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and it’s too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst… And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life."
--American Beauty

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
Voltaire (1694-1778

"Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."

Dr. Suess