June 2013
21 posts
The Coolest College Towns: Athens, GA #wellofcourse →
bleacherreport.com
There is just something inherently exciting about being in a true college town; whether itâs the proximity to a great campus, the constant reminders of an alternate lifestyle …
“You’re still going to get criticized, so you might as well do whatever the fuck you want.”
—Kathleen Hanna (via livefortravel)
“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”
—Victor Hugo (via thatkindofwoman)
“What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run.”
—Michael Cunningham, The Hours (via oofpoetry)
Last night was the first time I held a dying thing. Our tenacious and clever cat Muffin died. I kept wondering, as we searched for a heartbeat beneath his fur: is this the way he goes? Sudden convulsions and weak gasps for breath, then nothing?
“Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”
—Homer, The Iliad (via pearlkillers)
“Italy is not a country for beginners.”
—Tim Parks, from Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo (via wwnorton)
packing up for the city with william.
hopefully we will have some alone time to romp around together!
“What’s so hard about that first sentence is that you’re stuck with it. Everything else is going to flow out of that sentence. And by the time you’ve laid down the first two sentences, your options are all gone.”
—Joan Didion (via thatkindofwoman)
