This is the time of year that’s apt to put
a hammerlock on a healthy appetite,
old anxieties back into the night,
insomnia and nightmares into play;
when things in need of doing go undone
and things that can’t be undone come to call,
muttering recriminations at the door,
and buried ambitions rise up through the floor
and pin your wriggling shoulders to the wall;
and hope’s a reptile waiting for the sun.
—Bill Christophersen, from “February” (via the-final-sentence)
(via the-final-sentence)
Then you hold life like a face
between your palms, a plain face,
no charming smile, no violet eyes,
and you say, yes, I will take you
I will love you, again.
—Ellen Bass, from “The Thing Is” (via the-final-sentence)
(Source: gammasandgerunds, via the-final-sentence)
such a CROCK!
“It is an amazing thing to watch people laugh, the way it sort of takes them over. Sometimes they really do struggle with it … so I wonder what it is and where it comes from, and I wonder what it expends out of your system, so that you have to do it till you’re done, like crying in a way, I suppose, except that laughter is much more easily spent.”
― Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
scarves. printed in excerpts from Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.
this English major DOES WANT.
(Source: , via iheartclassics)
