April 2011
3 posts
Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an...
– Lemony Snicket
It well may be that in a difficult hour,
Pinned down by pain and moaning for...
– Excerpt from Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
– Plato
March 2011
1 post
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the...
– Alexander Dumas
February 2011
6 posts
There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you’ve got...
– Kurt Vonnegut
O remember
In your narrowing dark hours
That more things move
Than blood in...
– Louise Bogan
You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality...
– Dr. Seuss
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive...
– Martin Luther King Jr.
Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but...
– G. K. Chesterton
I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in...
– Henry David Thoreau
January 2011
2 posts
And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to...
– Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made
– Immanuel Kant
December 2010
1 post
December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September,...
– Mark Twain (via hippiecrack)
November 2010
3 posts
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mistrust those in whom the instinct to punish is strong.
– Friedrich Nietzsche