“Follow the tugs in your heart. I think that everyone gets these gentle urges and should listen to them. Even if they sound absolutely insane, they may be worth going for.” -Victoria Moran

                                    Red wine stains laminate kitchens counters. A Valentine’s Day that involves good friends, heart-shaped pizza, trashy reality shows, and pink champagne is all I need. Sriracha is good. Sriracha plus Frank’s is better. Galoshes are the best [...]

…the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk everything. -Erica Jong

You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place, like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again. -Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran

  Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen. -Frances Hodgson Burnett

 I know that right choices by definition are the means by which life crystallizes loss.  -Amor Towles, The Rules of Civility

For just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there’s nothing else. It’s here, and you’d better decide to enjoy it or you’re going to be miserable wherever [...]

2.26.12, a photo by Paige Weaver on Flickr. on a run through Fair Park. it is very eerie without the Fair or some other event going on

2.25.12, a photo by Paige Weaver on Flickr. the majority of my day was spent pantsless. an excellent Saturday, I’d say.

2.24.12, a photo by Paige Weaver on Flickr. home sweet apartment.