December 26, 2013

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.

December 22, 2013

December 20, 2013

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

Ned Vizzini.
(undo it)
(Alessandro Lupi, Identity, 2013)


December 18, 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.

December 16, 2013

December 14, 2013

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

and that alone is enough.

December 10, 2013

December 8, 2013

December 5, 2013

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

Colum McCann, "Let The Great World Spin."

December 4, 2013

(Filippo Minelli)

December 3, 2013

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."

November 29, 2013

(Martha Holmes)

November 26, 2013

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

Bukowski.

November 25, 2013


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."

November 23, 2013

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."

November 20, 2013

November 18, 2013

(Javier Perez)

November 16, 2013

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

Charles Bukowski.

November 15, 2013

November 12, 2013

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.


November 9, 2013

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."

November 5, 2013

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

Joan Didion.


November 4, 2013

(Houdon, Dead Thrush, The Frick Collection)

November 3, 2013

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

Michael Chabon, "Wonder Boys."

November 1, 2013

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

Jonathan Franzen, "The Corrections."

October 30, 2013

October 27, 2013



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

Jonathan Franzen, "The Corrections."

October 24, 2013

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

Jonathan Franzen.


October 22, 2013

October 17, 2013

His tiredness hurt so much it kept him awake.

Jonathan Franzen, "The Corrections."