Anna Patrick's Blog, page 75

"And I dream too muchand I don’t write enoughand I’m trying to find God everywhere."

“And I dream too much

and I don’t write enough

and I’m trying to find God everywhere.”

- Anis Mojgai, “For Those Who Can Ride in an Airplane For the First Time”
(via wordsnquotes)

Mimosas and this scruff muffin

Mimosas and this scruff muffin

Mimosas and this scruff muffin

Mimosas and this scruff muffin

Mimosas and this scruff muffin

Mimosas and this scruff muffin

Mimosas and this scruff muffin

Mimosas and this scruff muffin

Books, quotes, mindfulness and more.

Books, quotes, mindfulness and more.

"Ask her what she craved, and she’d get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music...."

“Ask her what she craved, and she’d get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom. Not being bought and sold by some idiot employer, not having the moments of her days valued in fractions of a dollar by somebody other than herself.”

- Charles Frazier

"When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional,..."

“When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty.”

- Stevie Nicks

"Virginia Woolf said, a hundred years ago, ‘You must kill the angel in the house.’ The angel in the..."

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Virginia Woolf said, a hundred years ago, ‘You must kill the angel in the house.’ The angel in the house was that Victorian ideal of the long-suffering, mother-of-the-world character, and Woolf said you have to kill her in order to write, to create. I would say that in the twenty-first century one still feels a certain amount of cultural pressure to not say certain things, and I have strong muscles for resisting that. Mostly because I feel that every single one of us on the planet is flawed and is doing his or her best to get through the damn day. And if you create characters who do not have as many edges and fissures and incongruous places as real people do, then you are failing to love your characters sufficiently. Because you’re saying, ‘I’ll be interested in you as a character so long as you behave in socially acceptable ways.’ And that to me is very poor art.

Anna has some edges, of course she does. So do I, and so does everyone I love. If we cannot love people in their complexity, then we’re rather cruel and cold as a culture. If we only love our female characters when they are either giving or suffering, then we are really shortchanging ourselves as human beings.

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- Stacey D'Erasmo (via mttbll)

"Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable..."

“Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love.”

- Delmore Schwartz, Last and Lost Poems  (via thatkindofwoman)