June 2012
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my beloved has ninety nine names, nothing ever...
ashleyyymoniqueee: the greatest name, the all compassionate, the all merciful, the absolute ruler, the pure one, the source of peace, the inspirer of faith, the guardian, the victorious, the compeller, the greatest, the creator, the maker of order, the shaper of beauty, the forgiving, the subduer, the giver of all, the sustainer, the opener, the knower of all, the constricter, the reliever, the...
Jun 1st
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Jun 1st
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May 2012
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May 31st
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“Give your daughters difficult names. Give your daughters names that command the...”
– Warsan Shire. I love this, because not everybody could pronounce my full name.
May 30th
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May 30th
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“Unless it’s mad, passionate, extraordinary love, it’s a waste of...”
– Dream for an Insomniac. You may be cynical, but this expresses my stand on love.
May 30th
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May 29th
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Repetition
The moment I received a message from you my chest hurts like it had been punched although I have never been punched in the chest but it sure feels like I know what it felt like to be punched in the chest whenever I think of you.
May 29th
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May 28th
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“Be regular and ordinary in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be...”
– Gustave Flaubert. 
May 28th
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May 28th
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Things my mom needs to learn before I am gone
How to use the auto-teller machine. How to use the petrol pump. The black coffee she makes is probably the best ever in the world. There are bad people. Or perhaps there are no bad people, only people who are mislead. And evidently, she needs to be less trusting of others and more of ME. This includes trusting me on my driving skills. After all, I am the one who has been driving her all...
May 27th
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May 27th
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May 24th
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“As Muslims, we often focus so much on Islam’s dos and dont’s that we miss the...”
– Yasmin Mogahed in The Essence of Islam: Are We Missing the Point? via
May 23rd
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May 23rd
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Twin witches
Her: I know you are going to be OK.
Me: How did you figure that one out?
Her: Because you have poetry.
May 22nd
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“I’m really afraid to feel happy, because it never lasts.”
– Thank you for sharing my sentiment, Mr Andy Warhol.
May 22nd
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The Mad Girls Love Song - Sylvia Plath
katuriankaturiankaturian I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.) The stars go waltzing out in blue and red, And arbitrary blackness gallops in: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my...
May 21st
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May 20th
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“What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.”
– Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis. GPOY.
May 20th
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May 20th
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May 20th
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“That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut...”
– Paulo Coelho
May 19th
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May 19th
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“I don’t think winners beat the competition because they work harder. And...”
– Seth Godin
May 18th
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May 18th
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“The best designer is an aware designer. The best design solutions are found by...”
– Wonderful talk by Craig Mod on how great design is born from nourishing habits. via
May 18th
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May 18th
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“We’re a little weird, and life’s a little weird. And when we find...”
– Dr Seuss. Might be hard to find someone to amount to my weirdness…
May 17th
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May 17th
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“I couldn’t live a week without a private library - indeed, I’d part...”
– H.P Lovecraft
May 16th
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May 16th
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May 15th
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“How can we expect them to connect Hemingway, vectors, pottery, cells, and...”
– Why It’s Time to Eliminate Class Schedules - Education - GOOD
May 15th
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May 11th
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“Be prepared to reinvent yourself, be prepared to go out on a limb occasionally,...”
– Hillman Curtis, RIP.
May 10th
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May 9th
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May 8th
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May 8th
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“When you use the word ‘flummox,’ for instance, your tongue is rolling across the...”
– B.K. Loren, from “Word Hoard” in Parabola, v.28, no.3, August 2003 (via apoetreflects)
May 7th
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May 7th
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Woke up and reached for the iPad
When we grow old, we are going to sip mocktails at a port in Monaco where our private yachts reside side by side. Screw you, the Big C. You are not gonna take any of my loved ones again.
May 6th
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May 5th
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May 5th
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“They buy poetry like gang members buy guns — for aperture, caliber, heft and...”
– Dorianne Laux, “Savages” (via fleurishes)
May 5th
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“Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the...”
– A conversation with Jonah Lehrer on the cities chapter of his excellent book, Imagine: How Creativity Works via. Strangely also, I always feel more at ease in a new city, town or place - somewhere where I will not be judged based on my past, somewhere I can start all over again.
May 4th
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May 4th
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List of informative Youtube channels →
Whenever you got bored of cat videos. Which, of course, you will not.
May 4th
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“You will fall out of love. You will fall in love. You will fall out of love. You...”
– Fielden Nelson, from “Failure Map”
May 3rd