All Smiles: Mixtape Monday

"She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring."

-Zelda Fitzgerald

"When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out."

-Elizabeth Bowen

"The world was her for the reading."

-Betty Smith

"The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!"

-Jane Austen

"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living."

-Jonathan Safron Foer

" I would always rather be happy than dignified."

-Charlotte Bronte

"It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight."

-Vladimir Nabokov

" Kiss me, and you will see how important I am."

-Sylvia Plath

"I wish I was a woman of about 36 dressed in black satin with a string of pearls."

-Dauphne Du Maurier

"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."

-Charles Bukowski

"Another belief of mine: that everyone my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise."

-Margaret Atwood

"Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don't go along with that. The memories I value the most, I don't ever see them fading."

-Kazuo Ishiguro

"That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less."

-Arundhati Roy

"Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering."

-Nicole Krauss

"She is too fond of books and it has turned her brain."

-Louisa May Alcott

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

-George Elliot

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."

-Maya Angelou

"What is it that you express in your eyes? It seems more to me than all the print I have read in my life."

-Walt Whitman

"Summer afternoon-summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."

-Henry James

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Mixtape Monday

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