July 2011
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“The little space within the heart is as great as the vast universe. The heavens...”
– The Upanishads
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Transit.
It was nearly dusk, the air luminous blue. She stood alone on the platform. When the train came, the conductor helped her with the bike, a courtesy that overwhelmed Phoebe with gratitude. She collapsed into a seat, wishing the ride would continue forever. Sheer transit seemed preferable to actually being anywhere.
~ Jennifer Egan
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Backpack.
There is a backpack in the mind which over the years has become filled with rocks and stones. You do not have to carry them anymore. You can empty your pack and carry only compassion from one day to the next.
~ William Martin
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“Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and...”
– Sylvia Plath
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College.
College, what was that for most people except a place to kill time before they went on to lead equally shallow adult lives. She didn’t want to be one of them and of course she was, the whole time she was hating on them.
~ Jean Thompson
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I Follow Rivers.
Oh I beg you, can I follow? Oh I ask you, why not always? Be the ocean where unravel, Be my only, be the water and I’m wading. You’re my river running high, run deep run wild. I, I follow, I follow you deep sea baby I follow you. I, I follow, I follow you, dark boom honey I follow you. He a message, I’m the runner. He’s the rebel, I’m the daughter waiting for you....
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“This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”
– Oscar Wilde
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Cloud.
I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.
~ Khaled Hosseini
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Down River, The Temper Trap
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“It feels good to write, like I’m stretching my legs after a long drive. I write...”
– A.M. Teal
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Blurb.
I want God, I want poetry, I want danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.
~ Aldous Huxley
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Sandstone.
At night, in between the stars and the water, I inched myself closer to you, breathed in your hair and kissed every half-moon sunk at the bottom of your fingernails, every crescent at the tips. Each cord of muscle, weather-worn, hard. And your softness, too- the collarbones that could hold little tide pools when you hunched over, the shoulder blades that could sprout wings when you reached back....
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“…He would drift through the house in search of the coolest spot to read through...”
– Nadeem Aslam
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Pierre.
Journalist: One of the things that are important in this battle is Harry’s wand. I’ve been speaking to Pierre who makes all this extraordinary props and he was telling me a little secret. You’ve gone through, worn out 80 wands over the last ten years.
Dan: Yeah….18?!
Journalist: 80, eight-zero
Dan: WOW! Oh wow, I’m so sorry, Pierre.
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Kitchen Mat.
And I knew that in spite of all the roses and kisses and restaurant dinners a man showered on a woman before he married her, what he secretly wanted when the wedding service ended was for her to flatten out underneath his feet like Mrs. Willard’s kitchen mat.
~ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
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“It is better to be feared than to be loved, if you cannot be both.”
– Machiavelli
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Easier.
It occurred to her that in every relationship in which she had participated, in every union older than a year that she’d observed, imbalance existed. Of a couple, one person invariably loved stronger than the other. It seemed a law of nature, a cruel law that led to tension and destruction. She was dismayed that a law so unfair, so miserable prevailed, but since it did, since imbalance seemed...
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“It appeared that nobody ever said a thing they meant, or ever talked of a...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Voyage Out
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Draco.
Lucius Malfoy: [Beckoning Draco over] Draco! Draco, don't be stupid!
Narcissa Malfoy: Draco. Come.
Lord Voldemort: [Holding out his arms] Welcome, Draco.
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Symphony.
This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five-word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It’s like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I...
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“It was almost reckless how vulnerable she allowed herself to be; you couldn’t...”
– Charles Yu
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Owl.
Clocks belled twelve. Main street showed otherwise Than its suburb of woods : nimbus—- Lit, but unpeopled, held its windows Of wedding pastries,
Diamond rings, potted roses, fox-skins Ruddy on the wax mannequins In a glassed tableau of affluence. From deep-sunk basements
What moved the pale, raptorial owl Then, to squall above the level Of streetlights and wires, its wall to wall...
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Matt.
Matthew Lewis, who plays who plays Neville, has undergone a bigger physical transformation than any other person who works in those films to the point that, when I went to the read through of Half Blood Prince, we were all sitting in this great square and they put all the tables from the Great Hall into this big square so everyone’s facing inwards for the read through. And facing me were Dan, and...
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“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure...”
– William Gibson 