December 2010
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new years' past
One year, when I was 10, I had a sleepover with my best friend. Her older sister helped us tear up tiny bits of paper that we watched ourselves throw in the air in the bathroom mirrors at midnight. “It’s like confetti,” the older sister said. We nodded, we laughed, we shook the paper out of our hair.
One year, one of my best friends told me she had lost track of midnight because...
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“Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The...”
– Alfred, Lord Tennyson
beenthinking:
After the Storm - Mumford &...
“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your...”
– Orson Welles
lovely language
liminal (ˈlɪmɪn ə l) — adj psychol relating to the point (or threshold) beyond which a sensation becomes too faint to be experienced
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“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad...”
– Benjamin Franklin
“A friend is somebody who says the same things to your face that they would say...”
– Aaron Sorkin (via nedhepburn)
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“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.”
– Albert Einstein
