grits (on the side)

It has often been said
there’s so much to be read,
you never can cram
all those words in your head.

So the writer who breeds
more words than he needs
is making a chore
for the reader who reads.

That’s why my belief is
the briefer the brief is,
the greater the sigh
of the reader’s relief is.

And that’s why your books
have such power and strength.
You publish with shorth!
(Shorth is better than length.)

Dr. Seuss

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

Marilyn Monroe (via quote-book)

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

A. A. Milne’s “Winnie the Pooh”

Ever morning, until you dead in the ground, you gone have to make this decision… You gone have to ask yourself, ‘Am I gone believe what them fools say about me today?’

Kathryn Stockett, “The Help”

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

Albert Einstein

I own one pair of Prada shoes. They make my feet hurt. It’s not the shoes’ fault: they are exquisitely made. I blame my feet.

Meryl Streep (via streepology)

i fear it will be hard to find a life partner to live up to meryl’s amazingess

(via shakespeareandshoes)

(via shakespeareandshoes)

The men [and women] who build the future are those who know that greater things are yet to come, and that they themselves will help bring them about. Their minds are illumined by the blazing sun of hope. They never stop to doubt. They haven’t time.

Melvin J. Evans (via @TheDailyLove)

[Ahhhh mix tapes] The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.

Rob Sheffield, Love is a Mix Tape

I love that you get cold when it’s 71 degrees out. I love that it takes you an hour and a half to order a sandwich. I love that you get a little crinkle above your nose when you’re looking at me like I’m nuts. I love that after I spend the day with you, I can still smell your perfume on my clothes. And I love that you are the last person I want to talk to before I go to sleep at night. And it’s not because I’m lonely, and it’s not because it’s New Year’s Eve. I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

When Harry Met Sally

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I’m not afraid to look behind them.

Elizabeth Taylor

A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You’ve got to kick off with a killer, to grab the attention. Then you’ve got to take it up a notch, or cool it off a notch…oh, there are a lot of rules.

High Fidelity, Nick Hornby (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)

(via quote-book)