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markmcevoy: EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 22:22:06 -0400

markmcevoy:

EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED

mediaite: Imagine A World Without Hate

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 22:19:24 -0400

mediaite:

Imagine A World Without Hate

Welp,

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:35:41 -0500

It’s been three full days since I’ve seen her and I’ve already given in to pouring over everything my girlfriend’s ever posted on Tumblr.

I wish I brought home books.

"Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has..."

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:31:11 -0500

“Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes. She has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag.She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she finds the book she wants. You see the weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a second hand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow.

She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

Buy her another cup of coffee.

Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.

It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas and for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry, in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.

She has to give it a shot somehow.

Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.

Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who understand that all things will come to end. That you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilightseries.

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.

You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.

You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.

Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

Or better yet, date a girl who writes.”

- Rosemarie Urquico (via kblitz)

(via conversationslips)

Rosemarie no longer has an active blog, but she can be found on Facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/profile.php?id=585211028

To see the post about how she was found, please go here. Thanks to Booksnbrew for searching!

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fireflies-in-the-dark: this is how it works you’re young until you’re not you love until you don’t...

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:20:19 -0500

fireflies-in-the-dark:

this is how it works
you’re young until you’re not
you love until you don’t
you try until you can’t
you laugh until you cry
you cry until you laugh
and everyone must breathe
until their dying breath

~Regina Spektor

"Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody...."

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:13:51 -0500

““Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.””

- V for Vendetta (via fireflies-in-the-dark)

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Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:49:25 -0400

This makes me so excited, and very few people know why (for...

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:15:46 -0400

This makes me so excited, and very few people know why (for now)!

Favorite show <3

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:07:03 -0400

Favorite show <3

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Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:37:03 -0400

"I’d rather forget and not slow down, then gather regret for things I can’t change now."

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:58:19 -0400

““I’d rather forget and not slow down, then gather regret for things I can’t change now.””

- Relient k (via tannermill)

justalittlephase: I Don’t Need a Soul ~ Relient K Without you...

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:54:16 -0400

justalittlephase:

I Don’t Need a Soul ~ Relient K

Without you I’m still whole
You and life remain beautiful

I could spend my life just trying to sift through what I could have done better, but what good do what ifs do?

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:53:15 -0400

"and when the nightmare finally does unfold perspective is a lovely hand to hold"

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 22:37:42 -0400

“and when the nightmare finally does unfold
perspective is a lovely hand to hold”

- Relient K (via muffled)

Welp,

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:51:45 -0400

Tonight I’m going to sit in my room eating salty, greasy carbs, dehydrated meat, yogurt, and cereal until I can’t feel the loneliness and self-pity.

Or I vomit.

Every now and then I’ll meet someone on campus at FSU that...

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:56:25 -0400

Every now and then I’ll meet someone on campus at FSU that says something similar to me.

For a brief millisecond, I flash with rage and imagine myself lunging towards them with whatever blunt object is nearest to me.

Then I take a deep breath, close my eyes, and try not to cry.

wilwheaton: It only takes 20 minutes for the NYT to shift the...

Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:25:48 -0400

wilwheaton:

It only takes 20 minutes for the NYT to shift the blame.

After allowing them onto the bridge, police cut off and arrested dozens of Occupy Wall Street protesters.

became

In a tense showdown over the East River, police arrested hundreds of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators after they marched onto the bridge’s Brooklyn=bound roadway.

Don’t let this simply vanish, people. Don’t let them get away with this. Force the NYT to own this, and accept responsibility for lying to their readers, to protect the 1%.

They’re terrified of us.

They know that we’re coming for them.

This is only the beginning.

(image via Reddit. Quote via Daily Kos)

Wait, did people still trust the NYT?

Is the glass half full, or half mustache? (Photo by...

Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:06:39 -0400

Is the glass half full, or half mustache? (Photo by daviskennethm)

We’re the same height, give or take half an inch.

Sun, 10 Jul 2011 13:52:27 -0400

We’re the same height, give or take half an inch.

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Wed, 06 Jul 2011 14:05:25 -0400