Strength

The sea's only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong.

Now, I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the way it is here.

I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong

but to feel strong.

To measure yourself at least once.

To find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions.

Now I don't usually like doing tiny posts like this, but I absolutely adored this quote from "Into the Wild." I watched it over my spring break. It wasn't like I expected at all. 

If any of you love the writings of Thoreau, Tolstoy and London you will love this movie. I need to read the book, too. 

I'm headed back to school today, and I finally found the charger to my digital camera! So no more grainy cell phone photos or pictures I take with Photobooth on my Mac.

Look for a more interesting post soon and have a lovely day.

all photos from here.

Heavy Walls

"But more than that, no unloving words were ever spoken, and everything was held up as another small piece of proof that it can be this way, it doesn't have to be that way; 

if there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, 

and we will give it heavy walls, and we will furnish it with soft red interiors, from the inside out,

 and give it a knocker that resonates like a diamond falling to a jeweler's felt so that we should never hear it. 

Love me, because love doesn't exist, 

and i have tried everything that does."

- Passage from Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer.

I'm a huge Foer fan.

His way with words has inspired and influenced my own writing.

I'm rereading his novel Everything is Illuminated and I just wanted to share my favorite passage with you.

All photos from here.

Do Not Leave Me in This Abyss Where I Cannot Find You

I feel sometimes that we are like

Heathcliff and Catherine.

Two lovers whose love is so powerful

yet so tragic.

Inevitable.

With heath in my arms

and the sun on your face

you became my

king

and I your

queen.

How innocent

yet profound.

And how quick we are to forget our

promises.

"If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be;

and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to mighty stranger:

I should not seem a part of it... Nelly, 

I am Heathcliff!

He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure,

any more than I am always a pleasure to myself,

but as my own being."