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December 31, 2011
resolutions (because that’s cliche and stuff and I like the idea)
Dear 2012-Kaytlin,
never be envious of someone else
do what I want, not what makes other people happy
(even if what I want at the time is to make those people happy)
make my own opportunities (and then take them)
paint more
cry less
(you may cry more if it helps you paint more, I do understand)
capture more (with...
December 2011
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What else makes you smile, darling?
Books and feathers and rain and stuff like that but also you you you
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“If you’re a poet, you do something beautiful. I mean you’re supposed to LEAVE...”
– Franny, Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
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this is a song for anyone with a broken heart
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December 28, 2011
Today, I asked my dad if he had any batteries for my camera. He said no, but offered to take me to get some, right then. This surprised me. So we went.
He stopped outside some local hardware store and handed me money, and I ran in to get my stupid ever-so-important batteries. I wandered around until I found some and when I went to pay, I put my hand in my pocket and found a crumpled up piece of...
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December 26, 2011
I’m drinking peppermint tea and I had a dream last night that I was wearing this delicate dress that was almost like a tutu really with black tights and black flat slippers and my hair was pinned up like crazy with tiny white roses making a headband right over my forehead and I was dancing with you and I warned you not to hold me too closely, “Nothing funny, please.” And you...
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“If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am....”
– The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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“Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s all...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
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"caaaaaaaaaaaaaatttt"
Oh. No. Dang. It.
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I see myself in five years in a shabby apartment in New York, very alone, wishing the windows were bigger, wearing pretty clothes for myself and drinking white wine. I would always be wishing for rain, because that would at least make the windows feel bigger. And I’d spend my Saturdays riding the subway and reading various classics (I’m lying, I’ll probably still be stuck in...
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Anonymous asked: Your face reminds me of eggplants. (I really like eggplants)
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a list of whiny complaints with one hopeful...
I think I have a fever
I wish I didn’t send people 6 page long messages at 4am that are rambly and stupid (at least it wasn’t a letter this time)
I wish people would at least have the decency to respond to my insaneness
but maybe it’s good they didn’t…I’m a whack job, whatever
Everything I’ve painted today looks like crap
I feel achy and sick
I am...
Anonymous asked: that picture you just posted about the old books...what's that from?
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I keep drinking the ink from my pen,
And...
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“I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.”
– Truman Capote
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