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“You mention that our characters are three-dimensional and it made me think that maybe NBC should promote our show as being 3D… but you wear glasses over your heart.”
-Amy Poehler
Dead. This killed me. I am dead.
(Source: lnjf4life)
The heart of the lover continues
“…In a hazy litter of love and leafy green vegetables I saw Margaret’s good face, and before I remembered our serious difference, I smiled. At the same moment, she knew me and smiled. So foolish is the true lover when responded to that I took her hand as we passed, bent to it, pressed it to my cheek, and touched it with my lips.”
-Grace Paley, “Love”
"One of my favorite writers just described the Republican birth control plan as a “Handmaid’s Tale RPG.” Still laughing.
Especially because Margaret Atwood novels would make the worst RPGs ever. Roll a 4: your crushing secret is revealed! Roll a 1: Sexual abuse at the hands of a male mentor figure! Roll a 5: OH, CANADA! Roll a 2: Everyone stares at each other full of meaning and silence. Roll a 3: Leave the room. To cry."
Madeleine, aka my favorite.
We have not touched the stars,
nor are we forgiven.
Parenthetical
“I send you my love.
(What if people really did that - sent their love through the mail to get rid of it? What would it be they sent? A box of chocolates with centers like the yolks of turkeys’ eggs. A mud doll with hollow eye sockets. A heap of roses slightly more fragrant than rotten. A package wrapped in bloody newspaper that nobody would want to open.)
Take care of yourself.”
-Alice Munro, “Before the Change” (in The Love of a Good Woman)
Ruination
- BELIZE: All day it's felt like Thanksgiving. Soon this... ruination will be blanketed white. You can smell it - can you smell it?
- LOUIS: Smell what?
- BELIZE: Softness, compliance, forgiveness, grace.
- LOUIS: No...
- BELIZE: I can't help you learn that.
- Tony Kushner, Angels in America Part I (Millennium Approaches)
Now Learn, Learn At Last
…At last, the Abbess told her: ”All, all of us have failed. One wishes to be punished. One is willing to assume all kinds of penance, but do you know, my daughter, that in love - I scarcely dare say it - but in love our very mistakes don’t seem to be able to last long?”
The Condesa showed the Abbess her mother’s last letter. Madre Maria dared not say aloud how great her astonishment was that such words (words that since then the whole world has murmured over with joy) could spring in the heart of Pepita’s mistress. ”Now learn,” she commanded herself, “learn at last that anywhere you may expect grace.” And she was filled with happiness like a girl at this new proof that the traits she lived for were everywhere, that the world was ready.
-Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey
yayyyyyyy
SORRY I COULDN’T BRAID YOUR HAIR, EMILY. NO OPPOSABLE THUMBS.
It’s okay, I like talking to you more than I like playing salon. You’re really smart, plus you ate Cindy Meyers for me.
SHE ASKED JIMMY TO THE DANCE WHEN SHE KNEW YOU LIKED HIM. I DID WHAT ANY FRIEND WOULD DO.
She was a total B-I-T-C-H.
THAT SPELLS BITCH!
I know. I’m really good at spelling. So is Jimmy.
YOU TWO ARE GOING TO BE SO HAPPY TOGETHER.
We are now that Cindy Meyers is gone.
