Yearly Archives: 2014

Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.
- Haruki Murakami

jilt
DEFINITION
verb
: to drop (someone, such as a lover) capriciously or unfeelingly.

behest
DEFINITION
noun
1. an authoritative order : command;
2. an urgent prompting.

I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.
- Elizabeth Strout

scrutinize
DEFINITION
verb
: to examine closely and minutely.

We live for books.
- Umberto Eco

When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears.
- Albert Camus

mimesis
DEFINITION
noun
: imitation, mimicry.

writhe
DEFINITION
verb
1. to move or proceed with twists and turns;
2. to twist from or as if from pain or struggling;
3. to suffer keenly.

It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.
- Evelyn Waugh

endemic
DEFINITION
adjective
1. characteristic of or prevalent in a particular field, area, or environment;
2. restricted or peculiar to a locality or region.

Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.
- Isaac Asimov