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December 2011
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He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful...
– Jonathan Safran Foer (Everything Is Illuminated) (via whispersreally) (via fuckyeahjonathansafranfoer) (via damelola)
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July 2011
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I wish I had a video of the end of our softball game tonight. I caught the game-ending fly ball (we lost, 32-2) and very nearly ran into our pitcher, Jeremy. Instead, after Jeremy realized that I had the ball in my glove, in a seamless, endless motion, he grabbed me around the waist and spun me around and around and around on the pitcher’s mound. Happy that, at last, the game was over. But...
April 2011
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March 2011
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I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that...
– Atticus Finch (‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee)
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Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you...
– Janet Fitch, White Oleander (via billet-doux)
February 2011
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Liquid Diamonds: "Date A Girl Who Reads" by... →
littlemissdorkette:
(In Response to Charles Warnke’s You Should Date An Illiterate Girl.)
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…
“She will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.”
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January 2011
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But for a brilliant surgical team and two centimeters of a miracle, this...
– Sam Seaborn, The West Wing, “In This White House”
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If you combine the populations of Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan,...
– Toby Ziegler, The West Wing, “Bartlet’s Third State of the Union”
December 2010
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November 2010
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October 2010
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September 2010
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fuckyeahpsych: "Take Lots of Pictures" →
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Shawn: Have an amazing trip, okay. Promise me. Cause you know, they say these kind of trips are once-in-a-lifetime experiences, and that they’re even better when you have someone you care about to share them with, and… you do. Take lots of pictures. Not of sights. Don’t take pictures of buildings. Take pictures of moments, ’cause that’s what matters. Capture ‘em here [points...
August 2010
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This is why I love the Internet
@CharlieYoungEsq: Bed time for me and @zoeybartlet, but first something off the DVR. She wants to watch the USA show Psych, I like AMC’s Mad Men. Thoughts?
@PresidentSantos: @CharlieYoungEsq Psych. That fake psychic is hilarious.
@Annabeth_Schott: I have an itty bitty crush on the psychic’s partner, Magic Head. RT @PresidentSantos @CharlieYoungEsq Psych. That fake psychic is...
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Thursdays: West Wing on Twitter →
I love Twitter. I already follow all the fictional Sweet Valley characters, and now the folks from the West Wing are there.
President Matthew Santos
Chief of Staff Josh Lyman
Deputy Chief of Staff Sam Seaborn
Director of Legislative Affairs Amy Gardner
First Lady’s Chief of Staff …
OH MY GOD I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS.
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Mallory, education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don’t need...
– Sam Seaborn (Rob Lowe) in The West Wing 1x18 “Six Meetings Before Lunch” (via rebeccapearce) (via loliesmith)
This is when I really fell in love with Sam.
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You know what makes humans different from other animals? We’re the only species...
– Jeff Winger (via thedayisdunn) (via communitythings) (via loliesmith)
“We can sympathize with a pencil.”
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July 2010
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June 2010
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Looking back, I see that few people took me as seriously as I took myself. When...
– “Pride and Prejudice” by Anna Maxted, from It’s a Beautiful Lie.
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“Me? I’ve been lonely my whole life. For as long as I can remember,...
– Man Walks Into a Room by Nicole Krauss.
May 2010
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‘Mom?” I said. She turned. “Can I talk to you about something?”
“Of course,...
– History of Love by Nicole Krauss (via wallofbooks) (via libraryland)
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It is impossible to say just what I mean!
But as if a magic lantern threw the...
– The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (via tseliot) (via libraryland)
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