“Love says: I’ve seen the ugly parts of you, and I’m staying.”
—Matt Chandler (via thatkindofwoman)
June 2013
7 posts
“When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.”
—Liberty Hyde Bailey (via thatkindofwoman)
“Don’t get stuck. Move, travel, take a class, take a risk. There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming. Don’t lose yourself at happy hour, but don’t lose yourself on the corporate ladder either. Stop every once in a while and go out to coffee or climb in bed with your journal. Now is your time. Walk closely with people you love. Don’t get stuck in the past, and don’t try to fast-forward yourself into a future you haven’t yet earned. Give today all the love and intensity and courage you can, and keep travelling honestly along life’s path.”
—Street Smarts: A Learning Process: 11 Things to Know at 25(ish)
“Everything about her seems to be saying, Listen, if you don’t look attentively, if you don’t go beyond my simplicity to detect the simmering volcano in me, you are not it.”
—Rawi Hage, Carnival (via thatkindofwoman)
“Comparison is an act of violence against the self.”
— Iyanla Vanzant (via thatkindofwoman)
May 2013
7 posts
“I exist in two places,
here and where you are” —Margaret Atwood, Selected Poems (1965-1975)
here and where you are” —Margaret Atwood, Selected Poems (1965-1975)
“
Natalie: I thought I’d be engaged by now. I thought by 23, I’d be married, maybe have a kid, corner office by day, entertaining at night. I was supposed to be driving a Grand Cherokee by now.
Alex: Well, life can underwhelm you that way.
Natalie: Where did you think you’d be by err…?
Alex: It doesn’t work that way. At a certain point, you stop with the dead lines. It can be a little counter productive.
Natalie: I don’t want to say anything that is anti feminist. I really appreciate everything that your generation did for me.
Alex: It was our pleasure.
Natalie: Sometimes it feels like, no matter how much success I have, it’s not gonna matter until I find the right guy. I could have made it work, he really fit the bill, you know. White collar, 6’1, college grad, loves dogs, likes funny movies, brown hair, kind eyes, works in finance but is outdoorsy. I always imagined he’d have a single syllable name like Matt or John or Dave. In a perfect world, he drives a 4 runner and the only thing he loves more than me is his golden lab. And a nice smile. What about you?
Alex: You know, honestly by the time you’re 34, all the physical requirements just go out the window. You secretly pray that he’ll be taller than you, not an asshole would be nice just someone who enjoys my company, comes from a good family. You don’t think about that when you’re younger. Someone who wants kids, likes kids. Healthy enough to play with his kids. Please let him earn more money than I do, you might not understand that now but believe me, you will one day otherwise that’s a recipe for disaster. And hopefully, some hair on his head. I mean, that’s not even a deal breaker these days. A nice smile. Yea, a nice smile just might do it.
Natalie: Wow. That was depressing.
” —Up in the AirApril 2013
15 posts
50 Great Rory-Lorelai Exchanges From ‘Gilmore Girls’ | Thought Catalog →
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Fans of Gilmore Girls know that Gilmore Girls has great dialogue, so much of it that the scripts were twice as long as normal TV scripts. It’s why they talked so fast. But at the center of all the chatter was the indispensable relationship between a mother and daughter, best friends who happened to share jeans.
As a tribute to the fabulous women of the family Gilmore, these are some of the best conversations Rory and Lorelai had on the show. I picked mostly from the first five seasons, only because the last two seasons included April, the Dawn Summers of Stars Hollow. You can’t sit with us, April.
