Spare Part Nostalgia

Lauren Yates
Poet. INFJ. Quiche whisperer. Leo.
22 / F / Philadelphia

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Outrage of the Day: Inigo Montoya isn’t included in Wikipedia’s list of monomaniacs.

Last night, I dreamt I let my mother read my manuscript (this would never happen in real life). I asked her if she cried while reading the poems. She said yes. I said this was good because I cry while writing them.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
Carl Jung (via quotedojo)

(via theheartofartemis)

Had a dream last night revolving entirely around sugar cones and gin and tonics.

humansofnewyork:

My last wife was 47 years older than me.”

“47 years???”

“Yep. We met when she was 80 and I was 33. She came to the nursing home where I worked, and everyday she would spend six hours with her dying husband. I said to myself: ‘If she ever loves me like that, I’ll be OK.’ We married a couple years later, and stayed together until she died at the age of 96. If I had any money, I’d make a movie about it.”

partybarackisinthehousetonight:

im going to open a literature-themed coffee/dessert shop called “Lord of the PIes” and some of the flavor names will be:

  • the grape gatsby
  • lime & punishment
  • the adventures of blackberry finn
  • the crepes of wrath
  • the catcher in the pie
  • war and quiche
  • around the world in eighty buffets
  • 20,000 leagues under the tea
  • the call of the wildberry

(via ethiopienne)

weissewiese:

Chelsea Fagan, Some Thoughts on Tumblr

It’s simply a fact that the self-deprecating posts, the ones that glorify depression/mental illness, the ones that revel in the poster’s inability to succeed or progress or attain some nebulous idea of “adulthood,” the ones that go so far as to edge on…