July 2010
129 posts
WOAH! i want all of these !
from 'Amelie'
“On September 3rd 1973, at 6:28pm and 32 seconds, a bluebottle fly capable of 14,670 wing beats a minute landed on Rue St Vincent, Montmartre. At the same moment, on a restaurant terrace nearby, the wind magically made two glasses dance unseen on a tablecloth. Meanwhile, in a 5th-floor flat, 28 Avenue Trudaine, Paris 9, returning from his best friend’s funeral, Eugène Colère erased his name from...
from 'Me and You and Everyone we know'
“I’m gonna be free, and I’m gonna be brave, I’m gonna live each day as if it were my last— fantastically, courageously, with grace. and in the dark of the night— and it does get dark— when I call a name, it’ll be your name. let’s go everywhere even though we’re scared— cause it’s life, and it’s happening, it’s really, really happening, right now.”
One of autism’s defining features is the inability to process even the most...
– Claudia Kalb on the conflict between people with autism and the cops
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the...
– - Christopher McCandless