May 2013
“Man alone measures time.
Man alone chimes the hour.
And, because of this, man...”
– Mitch Albom (The Time Keeper)
“I sometimes seem to myself to wander around the world merely accumulating...”
– Vikram Seth (via maza-dohta)
John Green's tumblr: The Commencement Address →
fishingboatproceeds:
Some people have asked to read the commencement address I delivered this morning to the 2013 graduates of Butler University. So here it is.
My own commencement speaker, who shall remain nameless, began with a lame joke about how these speeches only come in two varieties: Short and bad. This…
April 2013
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“Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys,
‘til there is sheet music scrolled...”
– Andrea Gibson (via fabulousbitch69)
“I realized that leaving wouldn’t be like I had imagined, like casting off a...”
– Ransom Riggs, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (via ennayak)
“I started wishing on the stars in the sky instead.
I said to the sun, tell me...”
– Andrea Gibson, “I Sing the Body Electric, Especially When My Power’s Out” (via calloway)
“I asked her if she believed in love, and she smiled and said it was her most...”
– Benedict Smith (via perfect)
“Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everybody I’ve ever...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters (via perfect)
“In my younger days, I would have taken this gin bottle and thrown it against the...”
– Mary Montezuma (via quotecatalog)
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“I don’t need someone to complete me, I need someone to make things a little bit...”
– Jon Richardson (via wanduring)
“I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably...”
– “This Is Just To Say,” William Carlos Williams (via commovente)
“And I am jealous
of your tattoos and how long
they will stay with you
after I...”
– Clementine von Radics (via perfect)
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“they say there is violence
to every new beginning
so let me love you gently —...”
– Meg Day, excerpt from “Say Yes” (via pigmenting)
