"It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don’t kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound."
Willa Cather (via bookoasis)
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"Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird."
Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird (via thesilentlibrarian)
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From www.getoffthiswheel.com. Hilarious, especially if you’ve been following the recent minimalist “trendsetters.”
Sometimes I forget
Sometimes I forget about my tumblr account, but when I open it up and look at my blog, I am always so pleased. I am starting to believe that it is becoming my purest representation of self. I have other blogs with more focus, but tumblr, for me, is just a way of sharing things that I think or beautiful, or thoughts that are important to me but don’t necessarily fit elsewhere. There are no constraints other than my own aesthetic lens. I am happy here, and I think I will remember that going forward.
