February 2012
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“And the world’s got me dizzy again.
You’d think after 22 years...”
– Landlocked Blues
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“You know what it feels like when your teeth are falling out, but you don’t...”
– Carol, Where The Wild Things Are
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“Love interrupts the consequences of my actions, which is very good news indeed.”
– Bono
“Inspiration gives no warning”
– Gabriel García Marquez
In brokenness there is a loss that must have a cost, for either the breaker or the broken. Our salvation is free, not because it didn’t cost anything, but because our cost was paid.
January 2012
18 posts
“when you speak, you have to want to be heard”
– Marcelino Quinoñez, on acting (and life)
falltopiecesfalltome asked: Amy! It's Jenn Freeman. Dude. That bike lock thing? So legit. :) Have you ever read Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli? You are stargirl. I think it's wonderful! Bye!
Anonymous asked: I found you're note in my bike lock. I just wanted to hug and you and say "Hey!"
I had to write an artist Bio for myself. pretty weird..
so in case you were wondering about some of who I am, let me tell you briefly. in third person:
“Amy Radcliffe is an Art Student at Arizona State University. Although primarily a painter, she has embraced and explored many other mediums during her time at the university. Most of the inspiration for her work comes from the places...
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there is freedom in unconditional love, an idea so difficult to fathom as a human bound by the chains of worldly conditions. Yet Christ has ransomed me, and set me free, to experience this limitless love. It might take me forever to understand a love like this, but I want it for forever.
“Poems are useless unless they have teeth”
– Amiri Baraka
“Of all the unexpected things in contemporary literature, this is among the...”
– Adam Gopnik (via prettybooks)
Sara, while deciding between a marriage studies course and child studies course:
“whatever, I’ll just drop the marriage and keep the child..”
“Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in...”
– Tim Keller
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“At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was...”
– ― Richard Wright, Black Boy
“Do you know the story of the Russian cosmonaut? So the cosmonaut, he’s the...”
– Another Earth
December 2011
15 posts
““What is REAL?” asked the Velveteen Rabbit one day… “Does it...”
We need more Cory Websters in the world, folks
“sometimes i hate that i like everything you do. just because i don’t know why i like it. but i just do. and i can’t help it.”
When you don't have friends, make some
Tonight I went to the harbor to sit and smoke my pipe and look at the boats all decorated with their Christmas lights.
I made friends with a sailor. He lives on his boat, called Mark Island. We went for a spin and he let me steer. It was lovely.
Then I got home and my family freaked out for going sailing with a stranger. Ahhh
I’ll keep trying to make this place a little less lonely
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“What’s beauty anyways but ugliness if it hurts you?”
– Kabnis by Jean Toomer
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“In a way, her strangeness, her naïveté, her craving for the other half of her...”
– -Sula, by Toni Morrison
I love getting to write finals essay questions on quotes I adore
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“You could never stay here, Amy. I swear if you went one time to Greenwich...”
– my sixty-something New Yorker Boss, Josie, discussing my options for after graduating.
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November 2011
15 posts
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After first Wednesdays tonight I got to play with my new homegirls, Lily and Lyla, my pastor and worship pastors kids. They are three. (this made my night)
Me: Wanna meet my friend Aubreigh? This is Aubreigh!
Lily: (to aub) stand up.
Aubreigh: okay.
stands up next to me
Lily: You’re not the same.
Me and Aub: what do you mean?
Lily: You’re not the same! You have different heads
