December 2010
23 posts
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“[This body of mine will wear light red will live again after all those...”
– Death Agony by Cesare Pavese
Dec 29th
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“Masses of blue-black rock rose in sheer wedges to the railway line; even craning...”
– Amerika by Franz Kafka
Dec 26th
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“The future unreal, unmade, Mother will cry into the new year with Lidia and...”
– Christmas, 1970 by Sandra M. Castillo
Dec 26th
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“Sometimes, at night, in bed, before I fall asleep, I think about a poem I might...”
– The Problem by Richard Siken
Dec 25th
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“[Always on Christmas night there was music. An uncle played the fiddle, a cousin...”
– A Child’s Christmas in Wales (short story) by Dylan Thomas
Dec 25th
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“Howl said, “I think we ought to live happily ever after,” and she thought he...”
– Howl’s Moving Castle by Dianna Wynne Jones 
Dec 25th
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“Just before the rhythm I hear falters and fades, I catch myself wondering...”
– Mademoiselle O by Vladimir Nabokov
Dec 19th
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“When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie...”
– The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
Dec 19th
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“It would be a waste of time just to stare at snowflakes, but she was counting,...”
– Chilly Scenes of Winter by Ann Beattie
Dec 19th
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“And the message of the yew tree is blackness - blackness and silence.”
– The Moon and the Yew Tree by Sylvia Plath (submitted by fishhookopeneye)
Dec 19th
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“You just can’t get away from family.”
– Premonitions, by Jude Watson
Dec 14th
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“I want to be improbable beautiful and afraid of nothing, as though I had wings.”
– Starlings in Winter by Mary Oliver
Dec 13th
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“Sometimes these cogitations still amaze The troubled midnight and the...”
– La Figlia Che Piange by T.S. Eliot
Dec 13th
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“Walk forward into the light.”
– The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Dec 12th
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“And at the bottom of each of those eyes I lived, or rather another another me...”
– Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
Dec 12th
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“This is the silence of astounded souls.”
– Crossing the Water by Sylvia Plath
Dec 11th
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“I feel fine,” she said. “There’s nothing wrong with me. I feel...”
– Hills Like White Elephants, by Ernest Hemingway
Dec 10th
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Dec 9th
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“Waking, I cry “Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.”
– A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf
Dec 9th
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“I cannot but remember When the year grows old — October — November — How...”
– When The Year Grows Old by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Dec 8th
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“And clearly, as though the voice came from just behind me, I heard a melody so...”
– Jacob Have I Loved, by Katherine Paterson
Dec 5th
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“The tulips should be behind bars like dangerous animals; They are opening like...”
– Tulips by Sylvia Plath
Dec 4th
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“Try, try to remember some details.”
– Try To Remember Some Details by Yehuda Amichai
Dec 3rd