The middle is my favorite

If you love something

If you were an albatross,

I’d clip your wings.

If you were a tortoise,

I’d make sure you stayed in your shell forever.

If you were Moby Dick, 

I’d keep you in your aquarium until you turned 92.

If you were Pride and Prejudice

or Wuthering Heights

or Catcher in the Rye

I’d keep you on my bookshelf until you rotted. 

I know it’s said,

That if you love something

you should set it free,

but setting you free is like

losing a part of me

and I simply cannot live with 

Phantom limb syndrome.

"It’s so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone."

John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

tinyfloralninja asked: Hello! I was just wondering where you found your audio version of Ode to a Nightingale. :)

Hi! I’ve answered this question numerous times before. Check my tag Ode to a Nightingale.

ADULT, PART 2

kathyshort:

I will know that I have grown up
when I no longer prefer
Risky Business sock-slides
to walking through my apartment;

When I remember to take
my vitamins everyday
and they’re not made of gummy;

When I stop talking
to babies and puppies,
stop trying to convince cats
to be my friends;

When I don’t start writing papers
the night before they’re due;

When I forget how to sing
and dance and skip while
making my way down the street.

And the day that
all these things happen and
I become a real adult,
That day,

I hope that day never comes. 

"Oh, please don’t go—we’ll eat you up—we love you so!"

Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are

Where the Wild Things Are author, Maurice Sendak, dies at 83.

You will be missed, Maurice.

Neil Gaiman: For all the people who ask me for writing advice... →

neil-gaiman:

Neil Gaiman

1 Write.

2 Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.

3 Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.

4 Put it aside. Read it pretending you’ve never read it before. Show it to friends whose opinion you respect and who like…

Some fool was just giving these books away in my apartment building.