January 2012
18 posts
Chinese New Year.
As a teenager, I wished I didn’t have to visit all those relatives I only meet once a year during the Chinese New Year. I haven’t celebrated CNY for two years now. This festival has always been about my grandparents, and now they’re no longer here. If I could have them back again, I would gladly visit any relative who would have me. On this night of reunions, their absence is so...
“This town is alive
With everything except
Eligible men.”
– #haikuforthesinglegirl
“There are dreamers and there are realists in this world. You’d think the...”
– Modern Family Season 3 Episode 9
4 tags
A Forgotten Prayer, Answered →
“Each baby’s shadow was still there, wrapped like a length of silver wire around bone, as close and deep and glinting as that.”
December 2011
11 posts
“I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a...”
– A. S. Byatt, Possession.
“I am convinced that
All available men are
Somehow damaged goods.”
– #haikuforthesinglegirl
“I feel its approach,
Inevitable as death:
Internet dating.”
– #haikuforthesinglegirl
My track of the day: “Lavender” by...
November 2011
1 post
dknyprgirl: HOW TO PLAY NICELY IN THE SANDBOX →
dknyprgirl:
Your entire life you work toward learning many different things. You aim to become an expert in a particular field and hopefully are successful. But no one ever tells you that skills are only half of the recipe. To really succeed, you need to be a master of human nature.
Bottom line, if you…
October 2011
2 posts
“Maybe I should leave
To help you see
Nothing is better than this
And this is...”
– Take It All, Adele.
September 2011
5 posts
5 tags
“Her body, her last semiotic appeal, or vulnerability, or precious secret—it’s...”
– Sherwood Anderson
Most.
“I love you.”
“I love you too.”
“I love you more.”
“I love you most.”
“Okay!”
August 2011
2 posts
Snowflakes
For the final truth about snowflakes is that they become more individual as they fall—that, buffeted by wind and time, they are translated, as if by magic, into ever more strange and complex patterns, until, at last, like us, they touch earth.
Then, like us, they melt.
July 2011
2 posts
“I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which...”
– Francois Sagon
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
5 posts
“I do very badly without a lover. I pine, I sigh, I sleep, I dream, I set the...”
– All I Know About Gertrude Stein by Jeanette Winterson
“I don’t want you to change. I know you’re screwed up. I know you are...”
– Cuddy, House Season 7 Episode 1
April 2011
5 posts
The Moment I Said It Imogen Heap Speak For...
“Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.”
– Andre Maurois
“The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the...”
– Eugene Ionesco