January 2012
4 posts
“In a time when nothing is more certain than change, the commitment of two people...”
– Robert Sexton
“Newlyweds become oldyweds, and oldyweds are the reasons that families work.”
– unknown
December 2011
2 posts
“Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I...”
– Haruki Murakami, interviewed in The Guardian. (via robotnic)
Here comes a-knockin'.
I miss something. Writing my heart out, perhaps.
November 2011
3 posts
“A sudden realization came to her, “so this is love,” she said...”
– Zoe Archer
A quickie with woe.
Emotional pain is a perishable commodity. It has a shelf life of approximately 12 minutes maximum. Feel it. Wallow in it. Reflect on it. After 12 minutes, be done with it. Anything longer than that is self-inflicted.
September 2011
1 post
August 2011
2 posts
To the one who 'put a ring on it'.
You are a well-spring of patience, understanding, and love. I don’t know how you do it. You just embrace me when i am about to mutate into a monster, and you wait it out patiently, lovingly until i am back to my good sense.
Just sayin'.
A wife has all the right skills of an undercover agent. Plus a far more superior gut-feel.
July 2011
5 posts
“I love him dearly, for his laughter, his unshaven chin, his air of having been...”
– Midnight’s Children
“The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we...”
– David Duchovny
my dictionary.
Husband: the bane and boon of my existence.
“We love because it is the only true adventure.”
– Nikki Giovanni
June 2011
5 posts
“…a girl who reads understands syntax. Literature has taught her that moments of...”
– Charles Wanke, You Should Date an Illiterate Girl
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(via somewhereinbrooklyn-)
“Don’t date a girl who reads because girls who read are the storytellers. You...”
– You Should Date An Illiterate Girl, Charles Warnke
“We need a witness to our lives. There’s a billion people in the planet, I...”
– Shall we dance
“It just takes some time, little girl, you’re in the middle of the ride....”
– Jimmy Eat World
May 2011
14 posts
oh the comfort.
someone whose arms were meant to embrace, not measure.
A master’s or a PhD in creative writing won’t make you a good writer if you don’t have the talent and the sensibility of a writer to begin with. Graduate school can help you deal with the discipline of writing and the rigor of criticism; it can open your eyes to other possibilities and teach you technique. But it won’t give you material, it won’t tell you how to feel, it won’t hit you in the...
If you really want to get to know someone, or if you want to get to know them better, nothing takes the place of a good old-fashioned coffee date, awkward silences, bad jokes, annoying habits and physical chemistry. Relationships were never meant to be neat but that, I think, is what makes them beautiful.
— Isabel Garcia
its all small stuff.
Don’t sweat the petty.
“It is words that are to blame. They are the wildest, freest, most irresponsible,...”
– Virginia Woolf
“If you remember me, I don’t care if everybody else forgets.”
– Haruki Murakami
Life of Pi by Yann Martel. I. Want. It.
“I know what you want. You want a story that won’t surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won’t make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality.
If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn’t love hard to believe? Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to...
kampai
Love is hard work. I need vodka.
Hoe
Girl, know this.
The only reason I am keeping mum about your diabolical scheme is because I don’t want to unduly ruin your reputation and that I don’t want to deprive you of your chance to redeem yourself.
I tell you, it took every ounce of self-restraint to be silent about it.
“I will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all. No… not...”
– Shakespeare in Love (1998.)
On Faith
How do people stay true to each other? When I think of my parents all those years in the unmade bed of their marriage, not ever longing for anything else—or: no, they must have longed; there must have been flickerings, stray desires, nights she turned from him, sleepless, and wept, nights he rose silently, smoked in the dark, nights that next of breath and tangled limbs must have...
Deeper
He poured it in her ear, the idea
of him on top, slowing time down
to enter her, convincing her
that everything would stay between them,
with his back to the air
and her bottom on the mattress,
their motions surrounded by
the smell of love and fabric softener.
She wanted him behind her, a position
of trust, tossing aside suspicions
of what he might do behind her back
and how...
Conjugal
Hubby said, “ang pera ko, pera mo na rin”. All I could muster to say was a simple yet heartfelt “salamat”. Of course, I too would have wanted to say the same generous offer of communal possession, but I was too self-conscious of my limited finances and wealth. What if I too said, “ang pera ko, pera mo na rin.” And in jest, he would reply “wala ka namang...
silk-wrapped.
You make me feel brand new. And expensive. And that is no mean feat considering how worn and torn I have been.
April 2011
3 posts
“Love is fragile. And we’re not always its best caretakers. We just muddle...”
– Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song
“Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.”
“Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions,...”
– The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
March 2011
6 posts
“Marriage: the most advanced form of warfare in a modern world.”
“In a word, live together in the forgiveness of your sins, for without it no...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Think about what binds you to your husband and he to you. Marvel at the strength...”
“My husband and I never considered divorce. Murder sometimes…but never...”
He wanted it. So he put a ring on it.
BA degree: 4 years
Master’s degree: 2 years [in aggregate]
Marriage degree: lifelong learning. i heart. <3
i love you.
Some people talk about love like they’ve seen it. But there is no seeing or hearing love unless you feel it. It is only when you feel it, damn it, that you know it. There is no exact formula to express love. By look, by touch, by gestures, by words. But one thing I know is certain: when you feel it, you don’t just show it, you say it.
Come hell or high water but oh boy you have...
February 2011
2 posts
“I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the...”
– Brian Andreas, Story People
keep me.
You found me.
I was readying myself up to float in oblivion, or drown in abyss, or vanish in thin air. But hey you found me. and now i’m in la la la la land. =)
January 2011
11 posts
shadow. shallow.
In the morning, you put on your sunshine suit. And then a shadow person comes hovering around you. causing you discomfort with her spikes. trying to dim your light.
Shadow people mostly are born with their feet stuck in their mouths.
You know so little.
Hey careful. You are talking about someone i love dearly.
“Anything less than mad passionate love is a waste of time”