January 2012
1 post
September 2011
2 posts
August 2011
3 posts
“I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe the world, because to...”
– The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
1 tag
“He has a way of making people paper-thin.”
July 2011
2 posts
“Give me your hand, note the consequence, the obscure heat of
a body.”
June 2011
1 post
“But I’m so tired I can’t place the emotion, and it, too, slips away...”
May 2011
9 posts
Had a little too much wine for dinner and decided...
saltwaterkids:
Nothing was lernt.
I miss you Julia, the namesake of my cactus/my token Swedish friend.
1 tag
“Exile is a life led outside of habitual order. It is nomadic, decentered,...”
– Edward Said, The Mind of Winter
1 tag
“Regard experiences as if they were about to disappear. What is it that anchors...”
– Edward Said, The Mind of Winter
1 tag
“It was a dark and stormy night.
Do you smile at this introduction? Allow me to...”
– Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke
1 tag
“People like stains dissolve into the grayness.”
– Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke
1 tag
“There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and...”
– Mila Kunderas, Slowness
1 tag
“This would indicate that the effect is an artifact of memory – the brain writing...”
– SCIENCE.
April 2011
13 posts
1 tag
“Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn’t have to invent a thing.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
1 tag
“I never confused what I had with what I was.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
1 tag
“… It was different from nostalgia, which is a simple desire to evade the...”
– Suketu Mehta, Maximum City
“And I run through a world that is rotating, conscious of the earth’s spin,...”
– Mohsin Hamid, Moth Smoke
1 tag
But my curiosity gets the better of me. “I’m coming,” I say.
1 tag
“a morning that asks too much.”
March 2011
20 posts
“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling...”
– Jack Kerouac (via heartsofstone)
LIMINALITY.
my new favorite word.
1 tag
“It is normally supposed that something always gets lost in translation; I cling,...”
– Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands
1 tag
“But human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded...”
– Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands
1 tag
“One hand, five homes. A lifetime in a fist.”
– Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
1 tag
“a parenthesis in what had once been ordinary life”
– Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
1 tag
“American seconds tick on top of her pulse point.”
– Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
1 tag
“In that moment I lost completely the illusion of time and space: the world...”
– Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
