Not only do I feel an intense connection with my earlier, often more vulnerable and intensely curious self, I also feel that I’ve been given access to a pure form of the complications involved with being young, now filtered through the compassion, perceptions (and barnacles) of my older self.
Look Homeward, Reader – Meg Wolitzer
a very good summary of why I still love YA books. they connect me to a time when I didn’t understand but wanted to, and I understand better now, so there’s a significant emotional connection to a simpler time.
I need some inspirational and/or funny quotes by people who are not white males. pls share your favorites?
reblogging because I still need these! Jez’s tag was super helpful but not all of them translated well as short one-liners (they needed context). anyone else?
I’ve got plenty in my “words to live by” tag if you want to browse through it.
gonna do it. thanks, Jez! 🙂
I need some inspirational and/or funny quotes by people who are not white males. pls share your favorites?
I’m more direct than I used to be. Life’s too short to suffer half-truths and inefficiencies. Be honest. Be open. It’s magic.
Sanity tips from Liz Danzico, creative director at NPR (among an impressive roster of other things) – a fine addition to our ongoing archive of sage advice.
And lest we forget, the key to staying sane is also about being honest with ourselves.
(via explore-blog)
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.