The online fonds |
While completing my graduate degree in archival studies, I felt an urge to collect my personal online fonds for the curious. In essence, everything I post here is imbued with meaning for me. You are what you consume; what is past is prologue, etc. I can be reached at attemptress (at) gmail dot com. |
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“If you can, invest $20 a month in this plan.”
“How much longer?” - A Dance With Dragons
Ok, so I’m a bit of a pillow princess and this may be a little accurate some nights. My jaw is not that strong!
“But I have to warn you that, as of today, you’ve taken your game to the next level.”
”Shall I offer congratulations or condolences?” - A Storm of Swords
“It’s nice; you can see the Manhattan skyline and the Statue of Liberty, and the Staten Island ferry chugging along and of course the Brooklyn Bridge, which links Brooklyn to Manhattan and is just a few blocks away.” ~Annie on My Mind
I think this meme is trying to tell me about my displacement issues. I can’t help it if I love NYC more than I’ll love any woman.
“i felt also sentiments of joy and affection revive in my bosom; my gloom disappeared, and in a short time i became as cheerful as before i was attacked by the fatal passion.” frankenstein
I only did this because the nearest book to me was a Jeanette Winterson. And she never fails me:
‘I am a woman who does not repent.’
“All that you say, my dear Scogan,” he began, “is certainly very just, very true.”
“There weekly arrive in this town scores of green Vermonters and New Hampshire men, all athirst for gain and glory in the fishery.”
Man that’s fucking funny.
“Shake well and strain into cocktail glass.”
Had to post. Too good:
“And it won’t seem like a programmed response.” (The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil.)
The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear “I myself became a master of a spoken word.” oh come on.
“Look, its not like I’m asking you to go down on a tailpipe okay?” Kinda seems like the other way around but.. okay?
“Dese las’ skifts wuz full o’ ladies en genlmen a’ goin’.” Um… I think that’s good?
“Tears roll down the side of my face.”
“The && operator returns true only if both operands are true.”
Katniss Everdeen - Mockingjay “Only that was different, since I was a contestant.”
They can tunnel and mine as well as any but the most skilled dwarves, when they take the time, though they are usually...
“Can it be that he sleeps when others wake, that he may be awake whilst they sleep?” I really don’t see how that’s...
“Sure enough, I quickly found that I could move again, although my arms and legs felt stiff and strange, and I had awful...
“I choose ‘The Times Are a-Changing’” but really just used it to talk about how our generation is really different than...
“When he finally let go of Harry’s hand, Harry could hardly feel his fingers.” HP & The Chamber of Secrets. yeahhh buddy
“Why are you trying to tempt me to go again?” ^_^
“She said she couldn’t handle it,” he told me. -The Fault in Our Stars OMFG I’M CRYING
“She seemed conscious, indeed, that whatever sympathy she might expect lay in the larger and warmer heart of multitude;...
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Page 52 because page 60 is a picture of NYC) “But I also became a little heavier,...
“One night after a gig an attractive girl accompanied me home.” Welllll
53 percent fat (cocoa butter)...47 percent solid matter.” bonus points: it’s
“He reminded them of the story of the boy and woman who had escaped from the Giant with the help of Horned Toad, whose...
“thus I might proclaim myself a madman,but not revoke the sentence passed upon my wretched victim.”
“I’m still wearing the gloves.” djgbdsfkjgbdskjghbskhg
“He tried to sidle back over to the Weasleys, but Lockhart threw an arm around his shoulders and clamped him tightly to...
“Are still more Cassiline than anything else.” -Kushiel’s Chosen by Jaqueline Carey.
Lessee… Johnny Tremain… “of plump, pale, picked turkeys, orange pumpkins” I give oral like a thanksgiving dinner?
The first 3 closest books didn’t have 9 sentences on page 60. So I went with the 4th closest book. The Hobbit. “Hush,...
From Patton Oswalt’s Zombie Spaceship Wasteland Even at my politest, with my braces and cystic acne and snowman torso,...
“Yes.” Well, I think that says it all…
Okay, okay. So I have two books. Because I don’t care enough about the spine of my books, so they were like, entangled...
“As a result, daily powers typically have at least some useful effect every time they are used.” → Dungeons & Dragons...
“chuck parsons convinced every girl to say no to me” paper towns - john green
“He suddenly remembered the reason he had written to Sirius and, for a moment, was on the verge of telling Ron and...
“Oh, Doctor Jones is perfectly capable of assessing the medical situation.” ‘Doctor Who - Snowglobe 7’ by Mike Tucker.
“Tapula-manulku, tapu-jarrijalku wait yali.” Which I think translates from Warlpiri to English
“This Escalator-Squash champion,...indefatigable love (it
“…she bent down and kissed him and tasted herself on his lips just as his essence was on hers…” …Well then…thank you...