December 2011
24 posts
“For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“It was the nights you were broken, frustrated, and unhappy that I loved you...”
“It’s not that I wasn’t tired, because I was. It was that I...”
“I love the idea of the big life—the life that matters; the life that makes...”
– E. Lockhart
“You can only save someone who wants to be saved; otherwise, you’ll be...”
– Jodi Picoult
“A little boy who wore the remains of an extrordinary black cap on his red hair...”
– Lord of the Flies
“I will never look at you the same way ever again. I’ll never be that girl...”
– Jenny Han
Satisfaction and Expectations...(would have been...
I attempt to keep “insightful” looks into my thoughts and life at a minimum, because that is not the primary motivation for this “blog”. Chiefly, I desire to share what inspires me with whoever may elect to dabble in my delights; however, as I am in the culmination of my teenage years, or so would be my desire to believe, tonight is a night in which endless streams of words...
“Well, sometimes I worry that my whole life will be based about what’s...”
– Julia Hoban
“There is nothing worse than waiting and not knowing what’ll happen to you....”
– Richelle Mead
“There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. Their place...”
– Sara Zarr
If - Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise; If you can dream—-and...
Unmade - Sleeping At Last
This is basically the...
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Let Go
This year I let go of my best friend.
After over a year of the strongest friendship I’ve ever had, I let go of my best friend. I didn’t want to and I struggled with it for weeks which turned into months. Our friendship was slowly eroding. Our bond of mutual trust, care, concern, and love was slowly tearing us apart (or at least tearing me apart). The friendship was no longer healthy...
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better....”
– The Lorax
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One Word
Discovery
Like many years 2011 has been a year with many let downs and disappointments, but unlike most years I’ve been able to learn something about myself and grow from each experience. Also, every major decision I’ve made this year has helped me to discover who I am and who I am aspiring to be. As cliche as this sounds, in every area this year has been a major year of...
“That’s what happens to dreams, life gets in the way.”
– Jodi Picoult
“I’m no stranger to learning the hard way. The day our friendship died it...”
“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going...”
– Charles Bukowski
“Acquire the courage to believe in yourself.
Many of the things that you have...”
– Ching Ning Chu (via thinksquad)
