a dash of this or that

newyorker:

Postscript E.L. Konigsburg: “Konigsburg taught, in her famous novel, that “happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.” She may be gone, but her books still teach that lesson.” http://nyr.kr/ZH0v2q

I may need to re-read this old favorite.

Postscript E.L. Konigsburg: “Konigsburg taught, in her famous novel, that “happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.” She may be gone, but her books still teach that lesson.” http://nyr.kr/ZH0v2q

I may need to re-read this old favorite.

Still a devoted diarist, I remained unable to understand my thoughts and emotions until I could write them down, play with them, move them about on the page.

Melanie Benjamin, The Aviator’s Wife

I had a scream scraping up my insides but couldn’t let it out. I needed to do something to get out of and get over myself.

Sophia Al-Maria, The Girl Who Fell to Earth

Is it possible to have nostalgia for a time in which you never lived? I’m sure there is a word for this phenomenon in German—beautiful, absurd, and twenty letters long.

With or Without You by Domenica Ruta

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ilovecharts:

Employee recommendation in the form of a chart, for a book of charts, at Green Apple Books in San Francisco

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I submitted this to I Love Charts last night. Morning made.

Also, Flip Flop Fly Ball is a pretty awesome book (I bought it for a colleague last Christmas).

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Most of the time—99 percent of the time—you just don’t know how and why the threads are looped together, and that’s okay. Do a good thing and something bad happens. Do a bad thing and something good happens. Do nothing and everything explodes.
And very, very rarely—by some miracle of chance and coincidence, butterflies beating their wings just so and all the threads hanging together for a minute—you get the chance to do the right thing.

Before I Fall, Lauren Oliver

Source: amazon.com

She had a high threshold for happiness, a straightforward, trusting nature when it came to joy.

Allegra Goodman, The Cookbook Collector

Desire shifts to expectation, and expectation creates desire.

Allegra Goodman, The Cookbook Collector

“I love you in the worst possible way, sleeplessly, desperately, jealously. I love you in the best way too. I want every good thing for you. I want you to work, and learn, and grow, and find your place in the world. Therefore I must let you…”

Here George broke off. I will not, he thought. I will not let you go. Because he did not love Jess in two ways; he loved her one way: passionately, protectively, selfishly, disinterestedly, all mixed together, and he had to be with her.

Allegra Goodman, The Cookbook Collector