November 2009
27 posts
the simple pleasures.
- hot long shower after a long day
- being able to walk around barefoot on cool wooden floors
- soft thick towels
- being able to laugh with you
- lilac
- a favourite song on radio
- an inside joke
- best friends
- looking forward to something, anything
“He made an unpleasant racket with his chair; spilled his sandbox; in mending his...”
– - Bartleby the Scrivener, in describing Turkey
Somehow I find this hilarious, and rather apt to describe my own state of mind.
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via fuckyeahhappy) (via grumpyoldgranny)
“Hakuna Matata.
What a wonderful phrase!”
– Timon, Lion King
“When you’re in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend...”
– Groucho Marx (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
“Don’t you think it’s better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you...”
– — Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife)
Submitted by: Alanna (via quote-book)
“A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ….
enough money within her control to move out
and rent a...”
– Pamela Redmond Satran (via mynameisloud) (via katejulieanne)
“I love you, baby,
And if it’s quite alright,
I need you, baby,
To warm...”
– Can’t Take My Eyes Off You
“Later on we’ll conspire
As we dream by the fire
We’ll face...”
– my favourite christmas song.
“I’ll close my eyes now
if my dreaming is of you.
Please steal my slumber.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott) (via quote-book)
“I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living...”
– e.e. cummings
“If I ever invent a lipstick shade, I will call it Ennui.”
– For the sleepless neurotic female poets with shadows under their heavy-lidded eyes, a cigarette dangling from their lips, and the broken sighs of dreams that have receded like black dregs at the bottom of a coffee cup, dregs still smelling faintly of the rich full-bodied espresso that only an hour...
Utterly freezing tonight. I checked the weather forecast; apparently it’s 26C. That plus the night wind, and it’s practically air-conditioning already.
Wish I had you, a nice fat book, and a cup of hot tea. And all the time in the world on my hands.
“I love him! I love him for the man he wants to be. And I love him for the man he...”
– Dorothy, Jerry Maguire (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
“I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic...”
– Humbert Humbert, Lolita
