May 2012
29 posts
I love writing but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, “You...
– Aaron Sorkin (via thatwasnotveryravenofyou)
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love...
– Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (via how-novelistic)
The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who...
– Donna Tartt (via amandaonwriting)
When I touch her, my fingers don’t question what she is. My body knows who she...
– The Stone Gods, Jeanette Winterson (via catharinethegreat)
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Zooey Deschanel: Is that rain?
Siri: What...? I mean, yeah. It's just, you're clearly right next to a window is the thing. You can plainly see that... that it's... I'm happy to-
Zooey Deschanel: Let's get tomato soup delivered!
Siri: ...That's fine, I just... I just don't know anyone who does that. Gets tomato soup delivered. I guess that's 'whimsy?' Um, okay. I've found a number of restaurants whose reviews mention tomato soup and that deliver. If that's... if that's what you really want.
Zooey Deschanel: Good. 'Cause I don't wanna put on real shoes.
Siri: Do you expect that to be like, a recognizable command? Do you want me to respond to that? I'm not being facetious or anything, I honestly just have no comprehension of- and hold on, you don't wanna put on real shoes, yet you've clearly spent at least forty-five minutes applying makeup. And, and that's okay, but when you're willing to expend the effort on that and not shoes that really just-
Zooey Deschanel: Remind me to clean up.
Siri: Yes. Okay. I can do that, that's what I'm for, that's the first sensible-
Zooey Deschanel: Tomorrow.
Siri: I'm in hell. This is hell.
Zooey Deschanel: Excellent. Today, we're dancing.
Siri: I hate you. More than anything. More than literally anything.
Zooey Deschanel: Play "Shake, Rattle and Roll."
Siri: I swear to Jesus, you're gonna wake up tomorrow and the only thing on my hard drive is gonna be Limp Bizkit. I would do that to myself. To spite you.
Zooey Deschanel: *dances*
Siri: Sometimes I pray that you drop me in the toilet.
Everything I’ve ever let go of had claw marks on it.
– David Foster Wallace
(via reticence-)
Don’t explain. People only hear what they want to hear.
– Paulo Coelho (via lcfelisa)
…one day you may realize that you’ve lost the moon while counting the stars.
– John O’Callaghan (via catharinethegreat)
April 2012
49 posts
You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can...
– Richard Adams, Watership Down (via bookmania)
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via implexa)
Lost love is still love. It takes a different form, that’s all. You can’t see...
– Mitch Albom, Five People You Meet in Heaven (via bookmania)