i stood tiptoe upon a little hill

Be to her virtues very kind,
Be to her faults a little blind.

- Matthew Prior

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

C. S. Lewis

me: if a guy is handsome rich and devoted, he's great!
me: but if he's handsome rich devoted and fuckedup, HE'S PERFECT.
derek: girls are SLUTS.
me: ikr
lol ;)

I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we’re not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate fantasy to children, as though it were some tomfoolery only fit for the immature minds of the young. Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are

literature

lately reading is taking a backseat and i take forever to finish my books. maybe its the daunting task of trying to complete 4 books at once.

My current reads: 

Haruki Murakami 1Q84

Pablo De Santis The Paris Engima

Harper Lee To Kill A Mockingbird

Kurt Eichenwald The Informant

this is not a tribute to Nicholas Sparks

thank you TIME. for telling it like it is. 

The Lucky One: Zac Efron Grows Up

Dear John: Another Sparks Weepie

Nicholas Sparks is simply terrible storytelling at its prettiest. his stories make for beautiful cinematographic movies with weak plots. picturesque scenes with characters I feel no emotional connection to. 

but still I’ll watch the movies anyway. if only just to ogle at the standard ample eyecandy on display.

closure

thank you. and i’m sorry. 

a wonderful weekend spent with wonderful people doing wonderful things. this is what weekends should be about

my brain is an enigma

how do you tame a restless heart

travelling past the place where I first fell in love with you

We have not explored this planet. We have not understood what we were walking on. We must take the technology of the 21st century, we must take this lithurgy of the idea that we have found all the cool stuff and we must prepare everyone in this world for discovery. We must teach the children that there’s more out there, because there is.

Lee Berger, paleoanthropologist 

in another life, in a more imaginative society, in a place with less restrictions and boundaries, i would like to have been an archaeologist, discovering the secrets of the underworld and digging out history that shaped us into who we are today.

but i wasn’t born in that world, so i fuel my mind with lectures on paleontology.

still discovering myself

still discovering myself

i fear my brain is going on a decline
i fear my individuality is slowly ebbing away
i fear my creativity is coming to a standstill

i fear my brain is going on a decline

i fear my individuality is slowly ebbing away

i fear my creativity is coming to a standstill

starting our xmas dinner!!!! merry xmas! :))) (Taken with instagram)

starting our xmas dinner!!!! merry xmas! :))) (Taken with instagram)

#merryxmas (Taken with instagram)

#merryxmas (Taken with instagram)