October 2012
1 post
May 2012
1 post
February 2012
11 posts
You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will...
2. Break Up With the Ex, For Good.
That ex. The one that, if you’re being...
– 5 Dating Resolutions All Women Should Make in 2012
Something that became clear while warming myself with the possibility of this...
It’s easy to run to others. It’s so hard to stand on one’s own record. You can...
– Ayn Rand
For most of us, there is only the unattended
Moment, the moment in and out of...
– T. S. Eliot, from “The Dry Salvages” in The Four Quartets
They miss the whisper that runs
any day in your mind,
‘Who are you really,...
– William Stafford, from “A Story That Could Be True”
Some people think love is the end of the road, and if you’re lucky enough to...
It took me a while to see that it is not a good idea to spend time with men who...
I pick you up in my Kia Sorento, you get in. There’s candles in the car. You go…...
– Aziz Ansari describing his perfect date in his Sexiest Man Alive interview for People Magazine
…most of us would rather love than be loved. Almost everyone wants to be the...
Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe...
– Noam Chomsky
December 2011
1 post
November 2011
37 posts
Got tight on absinthe last night. Did knife tricks.
– Ernest Hemingway
Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And...
– LOUIS DE BERNIÉRES CAPTAIN CORELLI’S MANDOLIN
You love the girl who makes you laugh and shows you porn and drinks wine with...
– ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
Yelping with Cormac: Jamba Juice →
yelpingwithcormac:
Financial District - San Francisco, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Three stars.
I’ll have another, he said.
The clerk wiped down the counter and would not look at him. We’re not supposed to give customers more than three guarana boosts, he said.
I aint askin.
The clerk…
It’s a bore, but the answer is good things only happen to you if you’re good....
– Holly Golightly, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Truman Capote
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowded...
– Henry Rollins
Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know—because once I wanted something and...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
Dear Karen,
If you’re reading this, it means I actually worked up the courage...
– Californication - I will always have a soft spot for Hank Moody
Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love...
– Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany,...
– Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you...
– Anthony Bourdain
I may sound old-fashioned, but I want to think all women should be treated like...
– Frank Sinatra.
This man melts my heart.