January 2012
13 posts
“The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The...”
– DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #64: Tiny Beautiful Things - The Rumpus.net
When he leaves, he leaves a space, a big or little airless place that begs to be filled. A part of the weekend that says What are you going to do now? And you think if you fill it up you’ll survive. So you work and clean and call and cook and write and drink and eat and sleep and shop and say This is fine this is fine. You can do this. Laugh and go out drinking with your friends when...
December 2011
17 posts
“Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the...”
– Paulo Coelho
“You will be out with friends
when the news of her existence
will be...”
– Sierra DeMulder, Unrequited Love Poem
“it’s not that i wait for you
it’s that
my arms are doors i cannot close.”
– Derrick Brown
“Don’t you see? You and he might never cross paths again. Of course, a chance...”
– Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
“You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
November 2011
10 posts
“I avoid speaking your name in conversation,
throwing it to the air as if it...”
– Tania De Rozario, A Hundred Ways To Say Your Name
October 2011
13 posts
The only lesson in love i’ve ever learned is letting go.
“on our wedding day,
when I tell you “I do,”
it’s because I do.
it’s because...”
– Rachel McKibbens, excerpt from your airplanes
“and I have gone out, a drunken bitch,
in order to ruin
what love I was...”
– Kim Addonizio, from “The First Line is the Deepest”
3 tags
“If you stay we can
figure out how long it takes.
The way you kiss me around...”
– Brett Elizabeth Jenkins, Waiting For Rain