Just some lovely things for a gorgeous day where lots of things went right, made even sweeter by the fact that yesterday was a miserable day, where nothing did.
Just some lovely things for a gorgeous day where lots of things went right, made even sweeter by the fact that yesterday was a miserable day, where nothing did.
A little bit of loveliness, because it’s Friday.
A few things that have been stuck in my head lately:
“Film noir gave us a term for the low-maintenance cheap-date type of woman, as personified by Ingrid Bergman and the other cool blondes. They were, in the gruff parlance, Class Acts. A Class Act does not bombard you with whimpering phone calls to the effect of why are you out with your mates watching the footie when you could be choosing sisal floor mats with me?
A Class Act does not take a split badly, or if she does, does so without so much as a peep. A Class Act is the silhouette disappearing into the night that you will no doubt remember-but will never talk to again. A Class Act will spend a lot of time alone, drinking spirits. A Class Act will never emerge from a local church in a shower of petals. A Class Act will never be a mummy, yummy or otherwise.
A Class Act will never have a husband who visit prostitutes. Forget I mentioned it.”- Secret Diary of a Call Girl. Love that book.
“Summer left and no one said a word.”- Matt Nathanson
“You are arguing that the fragile and rare thing is beautiful just because it’s fragile and rare. But that’s a lie, and you know it.”- The Fault in Our Stars
“Fuck that, I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong … I will never apologize. I stand here and I’m amazing for you, not because of you. I am not who I sleep with … I am not my weight. I am myself.”- Amy Schumer
“There is something absolutely divine — I mean, literally, the breath of God — in the ability to put someone else in your heart, to think of them first. But from the time of the greatest pornographer who ever lived, Shakespeare, we’ve demanded that love be something more. No, fuck Shakespeare — since the Song of Songs! And what happens is, the utter grandeur and magnificence of what love actually is gets overshadowed by this disappointment that it’s not the way we fantasized it should be.”- Jim, 55
Had such a great weekend in Vegas, but nice to be back home with the boy.
Love this:
This week is so busy, I can’t believe how fast it’s going by. I also started reading Divergent last night and I’m kind of hooked so I just want this day to be over so I can get back to my book. Here are a few things I’m loving today:
Quotes, or things that I’ve heard recently that are lovely and stuck in my head:
I don’t know what has shocked me more, that you are gone, that I am still here, that there is music after the end.
-David Baker
Alice came to a fork in the road. ‘Which road do I take?’ she asked.
‘Where do you want to go?’ responded the Cheshire Cat.
‘I don’t know,’ Alice answered.
‘Then,’ said the Cat, ‘it doesn’t matter.”
– Lewis Carroll
Here are a few things that are making me happy right now:
He actually lives in San Francisco, and it’s really through sheer force of will that I haven’t stalked out his address and crept around in front of his house, but it’s likely I won’t be able to hold out forever.
We almost always ate lunch at home when I was in elementary school, and my mom wouldn’t buy us any “junk food” for after school snacks, but every once in awhile she would break down and let us have dunkaroos. It was a dark day when they stopped making them, but yesterday I found this. I will be most likely be clearing my schedule this week in favour of eating mass quantities and then passing out in a sugar coma.
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| The best co-pilot a girl ever had. Cherries are my most favourite |
I’m reading Women by Charles Bukowski, it’s definitely not for everyone but I’d been hearing about him for so long that I decided to check it out. The book has a lot of graphic language and it kind of feels like he’s trying to be shocking, but here are some lines that I liked:
“Glendoline presumed that the reader was as fascinated by her life as she was – which was a deadly mistake. The other deadly mistakes she had made were too numerous to mention.”
“Few beautiful women were willing to indicate in public that they belonged to someone. I had known enough women to realize this. I accepted them for what they were, and love came hard and very seldom.”
I took a painting class a few weeks ago, and it was a really great experience. Ever since then I’ve had an urge to make something, but since I don’t really have any idea what I’m doing, I’ve been thinking of taking another art class, but it seems a bit daunting.
The classes are kind of expensive, but mostly I just can’t decide what I’d like to do. I’m torn between a painting class, a pottery class and a mixed-media art class, and I can’t decide, so I’ve been spending a lot of time online marveling at the talent of others, and feeling inferior.
Here are some of the pictures that have been inspiring me lately.
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| Love this. At some point our bodies might lose the ability to dance, but maybe our souls never do. |
Links for all of these picture can be found on my Loveliness Pinterest board, here.
loveliness. 