taking it in slowly |
Serena May
Born and lived in Hong Kong, studied at Exeter, NH, now at UChicago sycmay @ gmail.com; @serenamay |
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notesDoc Golightly: I love you Lula Mae. Holly Golightly: I know you do, and that's just the trouble. It's the mistake you always made, Doc, trying to love a wild thing. You were always lugging home wild things. Once it was a hawk with a broken wing... and another time it was a full-grown wildcat with a broken leg. Remember? Doc Golightly: Lula Mae there's something... Holly Golightly: You musn't give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get, until they're strong enough to run into the woods or fly into a tree. And then to a higher tree and then to the sky. -
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notes"You know what your problem is, Miss Whoever-You-Are? You’re chicken, you’ve got no guts. You’re afraid to stick out your chin and admit that yes, life’s a fact. People do fall in love and they do belong to one another because it’s the only chance anyone’s got at real happiness. You call yourself a ‘free spirit’, a ‘wild thing’, and you’re terrified someone’s gonna stick you in a cage. Well, guess what? You’re already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it’s not bound in the east by Somaliland or in the west by Tulip, Texas. It’s wherever you go. Because no matter how much you run, you’ll always run into yourself."Breakfast at Tiffany’s (via quote-book) (via flowersinyourhair) (via loveisjustlove)
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
—Og Mandino
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Decimation.
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Navy Pier and Chicago skyline
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notesAn artist’s interpretation of Exeter’s Louis Kahn library; @reggietweets I think you mentioned this to me earlier! (via Academy Library blog)
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陈奕迅 - 我甲你
船在平靜的海面 慢慢駛離開港
阮的心情像波浪 搖搖擺擺在顫動
面對你 害阮不知從何講起
是你.. 害阮在猶豫
我和你 彼日咱在泊岸(堤防)
海風吹 歸暝(整晚) 兩人偎相依
我靠你 在港邊的泊岸
咱在講 歸暝 說不完的投機
面對你 害阮不知從何講起
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notesEason Chan - Nothing Ever Happened
作曲/監製:林暐哲
填詞:林嘉欣
編曲:林暐哲/李守信/金木義則/石博元
Hey, you once called me your baby
Say it for the last time
With all your strength and meaning it this time
Hey, you once promised me the world
But I never asked for it
But I never asked for it
Hey, you once praised me beautiful
Why I’d get get weaker, why would I get weaker
Oh Please, please don’t
I am so scared, scared you’re too perfect for me
Or am I too naive for you
Either way it’s too late
Too late for regrets, I’m hurt
Leave me out of love
Leave love out, leave me out
Hey, let’s just pretend
Nothing ever happened, nothing ever happened
Hey, let’s just pretend
Nothing ever happened
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notes"Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted. It confuses you, because you think that your feelings were wrong, and it makes you feel so small because it’s so hard to keep it inside when you let it out and it doesn’t come back. You’re left so alone that you can’t explain."Henry Rollins (via brokenmachine) (via aphaziak)
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I want the sea, the flowing blues, the wafting peace. I want the sun, the magical gaze, the curing reflection.
(image via loveisjustlove: staree)
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Tonight, I think of Eurge, and I also think of Pat and Poon. I didn’t know them well, but each time, I was struck by the unexpectedness. “Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.” — Joan Didion
Every term, Phillips Exeter Academy mails its alumi copies of the Exeter bulletin that contain marriages, births, and deaths. I’ve always wondered who would be the first among our class to marry and to have children. But never the first too die - we were far too young for that.
But to read the death of a classmate on the news, to hear him described as “a 2008 graduate of the exclusive Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire” - to think of my school that way, is sobering.
Exeter is a community. And it’s during times like this that I truly, truly appreciate Exeter and miss the warmth of Phillips Church.
Rest in Peace
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notes[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]66 playsBilly Joel - Light as the Breeze (Leonard Cohen cover)
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“…What she does is more like shoplifting, misdirecting you with her forthright gaze while she pockets your interest and your affection.” -A.O. Scott
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Philophile
def.(n) A lover of loves. One who has fondness for the concept of loving objects, if not the love of the objects themselves directly.
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“Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.”— ~ Charlie Brown
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“If the only reason you’re only wearing one hat is because you’ve always only worn one hat, that’s not a good reason.”— Seth’s Blog, on...
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I haven’t mentioned to the girls that it’s my birthday for a few weeks now. Every once in a while birthday discussions come up and the girls ask me...
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I Want a Little Sugar In My Bowl: Nina Simone
truth.
