you can now also find me on tumblr at Girl Afraid.

i'm going to be transitioning photo sharing and inspiration to my tumblr, while maintaining this site for my personal writing.

i'd love if if you tuned in to both!

xx,
M.

(Nothing Special)

(Jung Lee)

I'm smart but not enough--just smart enough to have problems.

Ned Vizzini.
(undo it)

(Alessandro Lupi, Identity, 2013)

The grey morning light and the snow on the trees and the peripheral sense of disarray and breakup recalled the end of an academic fall term, the last day of exams before the Christmas break.

Jonathan Franzen.

(Modern Hepburn)

and some Saturdays, you wake up and it's snowing in Brooklyn.

and that alone is enough.

(Modern Hepburn)

(thoughts in moo)

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.

W.B. Yeats

(Modern Hepburn)

(Modern Hepburn)

(Cellar Door)

(thoughts in moo)

He said he'd rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic.

Colum McCann, "Let The Great World Spin."

(Filippo Minelli)

She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me. So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them.

Colum McCann, "Let the Great World Spin."

(theo-gosselin)

(Modern Hepburn)

(Martha Holmes)

I felt like sleeping for five years but they wouldn't let me.

Bukowski.

(Modern Hepburn)

Scatter these well-meant idioms

Into the smoky spring that fills

The suburbs, where they will be lost.

They are no trophies of the sun.

Hart Crane, "Praise for an Urn."

(The Clothes Horse)

When I told the resident genius 
that given the choice between writing and being 
happy, I'd pick the latter, she touched my folio

with her pencil like a bad fairy's wand,
saying: Don't worry, you don't have that choice.

Mary Karr, "The Choice."

(mrlkanderson)

(Rookie)

(Jewel of the South)

(Javier Perez)

(The Clothes Horse)

I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.

Charles Bukowski.

(Miss Moss)

(thoughts in moo)

I conclude now that I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored.
Peoples bore me, 
literature bores me, especially great literature.

John Berryman.

(The Clothes Horse)

(THEO GOSSELIN)

(Modern Hepburn)

don't walk in front of cars and take care and be good and don't hurt or be hurt and don't live in a way that makes you feel dead and don't betray anybody or yourself and take care of what matters and please don't and please remember and make sure...

Zadie Smith, "On Beauty."

(Modern Hepburn)

…. a minor but perilous triumph of being over nothingness.

Joan Didion.

(Rookie)

(Houdon, Dead Thrush, The Frick Collection)

It's always hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

Michael Chabon, "Wonder Boys."

(Rookie)

(flickr)

He was in the mode now of avoiding anything that might make him experience an emotion.

Jonathan Franzen, "The Corrections."

(Rookie)

(Rookie)

(National Geographic Found)

(Sea of Shoes)

(Cellar Door)

Well I got news for everybody: It ain't ever gonna be the way it used to be.

Jonathan Franzen, "The Corrections."

(The Clothes Horse)

(justerinhere)

"What's life for?"
"I don't know."
"I don't either. But I don't think it's about winning."

Jonathan Franzen.

(justerinhere)

(Modern Hepburn)

(mrlkanderson)

(The Clothes Horse)

(The Clothes Horse)

(Jewel of the South)

His tiredness hurt so much it kept him awake.

Jonathan Franzen, "The Corrections."

(Jewel of the South)

(Modern Hepburn)