December 2011
“Instead I will say, take me to your trees. Take me to your breakfasts, your...”
– Margaret Atwood (via suzywire)
Did Americans in 1776 have British accents?
iamonlyamaid:
nickpatrick:
Reading David McCullough’s 1776, I found myself wondering: Did Americans in 1776 have British accents? If so, when did American accents diverge from British accents?
The answer surprised me.
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Number one reason I don't want to get my wisdom...
I’ll be stuck at home all week, unable to escape my parents and sister.
“Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee; as for the...”
– Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 96 (via mythologyofblue)
“I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with...”
– Joan Didion
[2011 lessons]
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“But I more than love you, and cannot cease to love you. Think of me, sometimes,...”
– Lord Byron (via tothepersoninthebelljar)
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Things I Do Not Understand And Definitely Am Not...
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Do not measure a person’s worth by the number of pieces of Spanx you put on when you get dressed before you see them.
I’m finding it so hard to restrain myself from making this an entirely Arrested Development blog.
“(How frail the human heart must be-
a throbbing pulse, a trembling thing-
a...”
– Sylvia Plath, from “I thought that I could not be hurt” (via growing-orbits) (via girlmeetsdream)
