January 2009
20 posts
I’m wide awake and so alive Ringing like a...
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t...”
– Louise Erdrich (The Painted Drum: A Novel) (via thresca:onherway)
Palindromes make me inordinately happy.
Young Allie: You arrogant son of a bitch.
Young Noah: Would you just stay with me?
Young Allie: Stay with you? What for? Look at us, we're already fightin'
Young Noah: Well that's what we do, we fight... You tell me when I am being an arrogant son of a bitch and I tell you when you are a pain in the ass. Which you are, 99% of the time. I'm not afraid to hurt your feelings. You have like a 2 second rebound rate, then you're back doing the next pain-in-the-ass thing.
Young Allie: So what?
Young Noah: So it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, for ever, you and me, every day. Will you do something for me, please? Just picture your life for me? 30 years from now, 40 years from now? What's it look like? If it's with him, go. Go! I lost you once, I think I can do it again. If I thought that's what you really wanted. But don't you take the easy way out.
Young Allie: What easy way? There is no easy way, no matter what I do, somebody gets hurt.
Young Noah: Would you stop thinking about what everyone wants? Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do YOU want? What do you WANT?
“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can...”
– m. monroe (via lgfuad):(onherway)
“When you love someone, you do not love them all the time in exactly the same...”
– Anne Morrow Lindberg
330. Give credit. Take the blame.
(via rulesformyunbornson)
Alas, Alike
dearoldlove:
You were my soulmate, twin, sexual mind-reader, alter-ego, and perfect equal. No wonder I had to leave.
“To be conservative at 20 is heartless and to be a liberal at 60 is plain idiocy.”
– Winston Churchill
“Get yourself some ribs and some ice cream, ‘cause you just been dumped!!”
United States of America
“But others felt Mr. Obama had not said enough about how America would change its global approach under his leadership. ‘For me, as a Mexican, as a foreigner, it lacked a message,’ Manuel Barberena, the president of a Mexico City market research firm, said of the speech.”
I’m sorry, but today was about us. I agree that the US has large strides to be made on the...
Leadership
I’m having some trouble with two of the people I work with. They are both total slackers, one who should definitely know better and one who is new to the workforce and has the potential to grow into a valuable contributor… if she drops the attitude and puts in some effort and attention to detail. I don’t really like either one of them personally. They are both really loud and...
I can feel you slipping away...
This has been a really rough year for you, filled with changes and disappointments. It has also had some pretty high highs, but I think, in general, it has been one of the worst years of your life. You’ve had a pretty great life when it comes down to it, and some people’s best years aren’t as good as this one was for you (if that makes sense). But I think your perception of...
Oh, so you think you, like, KNOW ME?
(After a long day of arguing back and forth over everything, some legit, some ridiculous...)
Danny (after I attempt to use my building pass to get out of security and the guard has to come over and tell me to just walk through): (Laughing) We're really not on the same page at all today huh?
Me: ...
Danny: Sometimes I just feel like the stars aren't aligned on certain days and we are just totally off.
Me: ...
Danny: Or... no, I'd get fired for asking you.
Me: Fired for asking me what? We'd both get fired for most of what we talk about anyway, might as well add another.
Danny: How's everything else?
Me: ...
Danny: I mean, how are you, like, physically?
Me: Are you trying to ask me if I'm pregnant?
Danny: (Laughing) Well, kinda...
Me: (Laughing) Are you trying to ask me if it's that time of the month?
Danny: WELL, is it?
Me: Maybe. BUT that has nothing to do with you arguing with me all day!
Danny: (Laughing, fist pumping, doubled over and huggin himself) YES, I KNEW IT WASN'T ME! YOU'RE TOTALLY PMS'ING!
Me: Whatever. You don't know me...
“A person is never as quiet or unrestrained as they seem. Or as good, as bad, as...”
– (via outlaws:onherway)
“There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about...”
– George M. Adams (via onherway)
In Their Eyes
dearoldlove:
I loved when people would mistake us for a couple.
“When people walk away from you, let them walk. Don’t try to talk another person...”
– (via outlaws:onherway)