April 2011
35 posts
“Second in popularity to screenshots of Jean-Luc Godard is the hoarse lament that real life is somehow more important than life online — put the two together and Tumblr will cease to mystify you.”
—Good Night, Dear Void by Kara Vanderbijl
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Look at Me, I'm Crying →
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Yes, this: “For me, it’s not that I want apathy, just privacy. To be noticed, but not interrupted. It’s comforting to be seen in our grief, there is a confirmation in it — however awkward it makes us feel.”
“Culling is easy; it implies a huge amount of control and mastery. Surrender, on the other hand, is a little sad. That’s the moment you realize you’re separated from so much. That’s your moment of understanding that you’ll miss most of the music and the dancing and the art and the books and the films that there have ever been and ever will be, and right now, there’s something being performed somewhere in the world that you’re not seeing that you would love.”
—via The Sad, Beautiful Fact That We’re Going to Miss Almost Everything by Linda Holmes
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Sharing the Shame After My Arrest →
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I don’t always read Modern Love - usually only if someone tells me to. This week someone told me to.
This is a quick, sweet, and totally worthwhile read. Especially for those of us lucky enough to have amazing and supportive mothers.
This part particularly struck me:
“At her lowest point, my mother spent a full day on the laundry room floor, slumped against the washing machine, unable to move. The severity of my situation had consumed her. Her heart had broken so severely that her body and mind broke, too.”
A few years ago, I was crying to my mom over the phone about something. Let’s be a real - it was probably over a boy. And she told me that if it was possible to take my pain, and make it hers, she would do it. I’ve never forgotten that.
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