October 2011
7 posts
“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only...”
– Audrey Hepburn
August 2011
2 posts
The problem with "nice guys" →
If you don’t see what’s wrong with being a Nice Guy, it’s this: despite your “nice” actions, you are still living under the assumption that how you treat a woman entitles you to some sort of appreciation, or some part of her body. If you haven’t noticed by now, this makes you an asshole, too.
July 2011
1 post
June 2011
1 post
Father's Day
It is because of my father that I understand the meaning of the word unconditional. And that I falter when I realise that so many things in this world are temporary. Happy Father’s Day, Daddy.
May 2011
7 posts
"Frida Kahlo to Marty McConnell"
“Leaving is not enough; you must stay gone. Train your heart like a dog. Change the locks even on the house he’s never visited. You lucky, lucky girl. You have an apartment just your size. A bathtub full of tea. A heart the size of Arizona, but not nearly so arid. Don’t wish away your cracked past, your crooked toes, your problems are papier mache puppets you made or bought because the...
"Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the...
One of the things that scare me the most is that I’ll grow up and look back on my youth and regret the opportunities that I’d missed. I feel that at twenty, I already possess thousands of tiny little “what if’s” that nudge at my self-assurance and constantly force me to re-think decisions that I once confidently made. For example, I’ve recently become more aware...
“Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,...”
– W.B. Yeats
