May 2013
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“To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.”
– Emily Dickinson
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“Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions...”
– Haruki Murakami
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“What was this compulsive need to be lovable? They both had it, were driven by...”
– Ann Brashares
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April 2013
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“I wanted to tell the book thief many things about beauty and brutality. But what...”
– Markus Zusak
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My struggle now is that, as much as I feel I’ve gained from being in college, I’m at the point where I feel incredibly mediocre at most things I do here regardless of how hard I work because even though I enjoy the things I’m studying, I know they’re not my forte or anything that particularly gives me purpose or reason to exist. It would be nice to be good at something for...
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“Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom we know...”
– Alain de Botton (via crimsun)
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“Quite simply, I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in...”
– Joan Didion
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“Listen. Listen. There are times when life calls out for a change. A transition....”
– Paris, Je T’aime (2006)
March 2013
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I want to know if it feels good to feel nothing.
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“And I’d study the science of you ‘til I turned it into an art. The...”
– I Wrote This for You
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February 2013
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“I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear...”
– Yann Martel
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“One of the saddest realities is most people never know when their lives have...”
– Jonathan Carroll
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“My dear, I don’t know what to do today, help me decide. Should I cut myself open...”
– Albert Camus
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“Create. Not because you want to or because the mood grabs you or just because...”
– I Wrote This for You
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I guess I just don’t feel like the point of art is to accurately represent reality. For the same reason, I don’t like Renaissance art. What’s the point of portraying reality exactly as it is if I can just see reality? I’m impressed by an artist’s ability to render every detail, line, proportion, and perspective as accurately as a picture, but I’m not in the...
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