February 2012
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capitolcouture:
You heard it first on Capitol Couture: Skullcap neckmanes are back!
SOURCE: stylepantry.com
“Skullcap neckmanes”?! Wow. Inventive description - I had to laugh.
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A low song wavered up from the Green. It climbed three plaintive notes of the scale and sank again in a hesitant and wistful cadence.
Nell raised her head and turned it toward the window. So strange a sound there in the solitude - so pure and musical the tone - Was it real? Was she imagining it? Was it the voice of the singer of songs, the dreamer - wanderer - within her own heart? But it...
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*tries to go on mockingjay.net*
*won’t load*
*realizes trailer teaser must be out*
*goes on tumblr*
*sees all the gifs*
*sqeeeeeees*
*has now seen entire teaser without ever leaving dash*
January 2012
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Reference to The Boxcar Children?
I just finished reading The Scorpio Races today, and all the praises I could sing would be passe - suffice it to say that it is a wonderful, glorious, gripping tale.
I did want to see if anyone else happened to notice this paragraph the same way I did:
“We both look mournfully in the bakery window as we pass, though I’d sworn to myself that I wouldn’t. Nothing says orphans...
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The world is quiet.
Then:
Whuff
If I strain my ears I can hear the sound of a hoof hitting the ground, then another. Another exhale of breath, no louder than the rain on the roof.
The night is dark and silent. Dove’s attention remains fixed on the last point where the sound came from.
Mist hisses over the roof. Water drips down off the edge of the metal, one drop, two drops at a time,...
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For a moment I am completely struck by the injustice of this, that I’ve...
– The Scorpio Races, Maggie Stiefvater
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Mom: Do you need anything for work tomorrow?
Me: *drags attention from computer* ....Noo....
Mom: Do you have everything you need to work tomorrow?
Me: *scrolling tumblr* .....Yessss......
Mom: Should we go through that again, more slowly?
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The bow plunges. Lurches.
Then settles a moment.
I watch from the bridge
as...
– the death of Captain E.J. Smith of the RMS Titanic, quoted from The Watch that Ends the Night, by Allan Wolf
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On the wings of the night
May your fury be crossed
May no one that’s dear
To our Island be lost.
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Blow the winds gently
Calm be the foam
Shine a light brightly
To guide them back home.
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This is from a book (can’t remember the title).
A traditional song? Has anyone else seen this?
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