Happy Friday!

"I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish."— Markus Zusak

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my favorite story

“Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive—it’s such an interesting world. 

It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? 

There’d be no scope for imagination then, would there? 

But am I talking too much? 

People are always telling me I do. 

Would you rather I didn’t talk? 

If you say so I’ll stop. I can STOP when I make up my mind to it, although it’s difficult.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

No One Else...

one of my sweet co-workers emailed this to me

and i got all teary eyed at my desk!

i just LOVE this!

so beautiful...

...i will try my best...

"If I had my child to raise all over again,

I'd build self-esteem first, and the house later.

I'd finger-paint more, and point the finger less.

I would do less correcting and more connecting.

I'd take my eyes off my watch, and watch with my eyes.

I'd take more hikes and fly more kites.

I'd stop playing serious, and seriously play.

I would run through more fields and gaze at more stars.

I'd do more hugging and less tugging."

— Diane Loomans

...poor charlie

love this and so true

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LOVED this movie

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how 'bout them apples?

i just love this movie...Chuckie: Are we gonna have a problem here?

Clark: No, no, no, no! There's no problem here. I was just hoping you might give me some insight into the evolution of the market economy in the southern colonies. My contention is that prior to the Revolutionary War, the economic modalities, especially in the southern colonies, could be most aptly described as agrarian pre-capitalist.

Will: Of course that's your contention. You're a first-year grad student; you just got finished reading some Marxian historian, Pete Garrison probably. You're gonna be convinced of that 'till next month when you get to James Lemon. Then you're going to be talking about how the economies of Virginia and Pennsylvania were entrepreneurial and capitalist way back in 1740. That's gonna last until next year; you're gonna be in here regurgitating Gordon Wood, talkin' about, you know, the pre-revolutionary utopia and the capital-forming effects of military mobilization.

Clark: Well, as a matter of fact, I won't, because Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social...

Will: "Wood drastically underestimates the impact of social distinctions predicated upon wealth, especially inherited wealth"? You got that from Vickers' Work in Essex County, page 98, right? Yeah, I read that too. Were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing for us? Do you have any thoughts of your own on this matter? Or do you, is that your thing, you come into a bar, read some obscure passage and then pretend - you pawn it off as your own, as your own idea just to impress some girls, embarrass my friend?

Will: See, the sad thing about a guy like you is, in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you're going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and two, you dropped 150 grand on a "effing" education you could have got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library.

Clark: Yeah, but I will have a degree. And you'll be servin' my kids fries at a drive-thru on our way to a skiing trip.

Will: That may be, but at least I won't be unoriginal. But I mean, if you have a problem with that, I mean, we could just step outside - we could figure it out.

Clark: No, man, there's no problem. It's cool.

--Good Will Hunting, 1997

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more...

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‘You know, you’re a little complicated after all.”
“Oh no,” she assured him hastily.
“No, I’m not really - I’m just a -
I’m just a whole lot of different simple people.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night 

I remember it as October days are always remembered, cloudless, maple-flavored, the air gold and so clean it quivers.

�Leif Enger, Peace Like A River (via modernhepburn)

"You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me."

� C.S. Lewis (via wongjannaaa)

"Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth."

� Walt Whitman (via youandtheleap)

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.

- Bob Dylan

for when i feel like bonquiqui....which is often

‎I don’t deserve it, but grace is attached to my shadow.
It follows me wherever I go reminding me that I’m loved when I don’t love myself.
It corrects me when I’m out of line yet then pulls me in to give me a loving embrace.
It’s sometimes hard for me to understand because it’s so unlike me.
— Bryce Avary (via outsidetheglass)