10 months ago • 230 notes“Is there anything as incredible as the love story of your own parents? Anything as hard to grasp as the fact that those two over-the-hill players, permanently on the disabled list, were once in the starting lineup?
— Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
Flannery O’Connor: A Good Man Is Hard to Find
I think I read this in every fiction class I ever took.
1 year ago • 210 notes
Reader Submission: Title and Redesign by illustrator Michael Molina.
Haruki Murakami: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
Love this.
1 year ago • 391 notes
“lt’s not particularly silly, is it? I mean, the right leg isn’t silly at all and the left leg merely does a forward aerial half turn every alternate step.”
1 year ago • 10,364 notesSilly Walk by andreas612
1 year ago • 62 notes“If there’s one thing girls’ parents don’t want to see in you it’s whatever it is their daughters see in you.”
—Martin Amis, The Rachel Papers
jdel:
Ha! Picture from freshman year of college by Whitney.
Oh god, I remember this. Was that my dorm room?
1 year ago • 1 note
1 year ago • 187 notes“People who are going to get along really well know it almost as soon as they meet. You spend a little while talking and everyone starts to feel this conviction, you’re all equally sure that you’re at the beginning of something good. “
— Banana Yoshimoto, Goodbye Tsugumi
1 year ago • 335 notes“Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.”
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
1 year ago • 150 notes“How she longed for the uninhibitedness of kids her age, their vacuous sense of immortality.”
—Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers

