February 2010
Savannah: Does this mean you believe everything happens for a reason?
Savannah: I love seeing people's response to that question.
Zack: I believe that one chooses his own destiny, but I also believe that the steps in making that choice are effects based on everything that happens in your life. So, in a way. Yeah.
Savannah: Good answer.
Zack: How about yourself?
Savannah: Yes. I go through period where I think that's completely ridiculous, and I go through periods where I think I'm just telling myself that so that I'll be happy, but "at the end of the day," I know that I really do believe that everything happens for a reason.
Savannah: That either makes me terribly naive or an extravagant dreamer. But I'm okay with that.
Zack: Well, without dreamers then the world we know of wouldn't exist. And to be honest, naivety is a sign of purity.
January 2010
“In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every...”
– Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year...”
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“He smiled understandingly — much more than understandingly. It was one of those...”
– The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Loneliness keeps catching me by surprise.”
– Annie
that’s the way it should always be — head over...
— Passion Pit
8:30 is the new midnight.
people are pleasantly strange
— Oren Lavie
With all your lies, you're still very lovable.
— Bon Iver
You're what keeps me believing the world's not...
— Say Anything
kind, yet unfriendly
“We were strangers who knew each other very well.”
– Big Fish
Banned Books Online →
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in...
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don’t hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don’t take things that aren’t yours.
Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life — learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance...
“And he wept, not for himself, but out of love and pity for every youth that ever...”
– “His Father’s Earth” by Thomas Wolfe
"Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Robert Frost
Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
“There was a fish jumping and a star shining and the lights around the lake were...”
– “Winter Dreams” by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible...”
– Albert Camus
