January 2010
“Only as high as I reach can I grow
Only as far as I seek can I go
Only as deep...”
“The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the...”
“No matter how good somebody’s life looks from the outside, you can be sure...”
“It was good, too, to remember how hard a lot of people had to work to keep a...”
December 2009
“I figured that when there’s no way of knowing what the future holds...”
“She said, “As long as we’re with each other—”
“We...”
“Knock, Knock.”
“Who’s there?”
“Olive.”...”
“I’m starting to believe that happily ever after includes people doing...”
“She was remorseless, but she lacked method.
~Diana Wynne Jones”
“That’s why I love spiders. ‘If at first you don’t succeed,...”
“If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can...”
“Nobody can buy a hat without gossiping.
~Diana Wynne Jones (Howl’s Moving...”
“If I give you a hint and tell you it’s a hint, it will be information....”
“I can’t abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human...”
“Take it from me, Fate doesn’t care most of the time.
~Diana Wynne Jones...”
“Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying...”
“Go to bed, you fool,” Calcifer said sleepily. “You’re...”
“In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of...”
Snowball fight in Times Square
tameourways:
This was an impromptu snowball fight in Times Square around 1AM in the midst of the blizzard Saturday night. The real danger wasn’t the snow and subsequent moisture destroying my gear. No, the real danger was shooting the mayhem with a wide lens which meant that I was a prime target. I had to put the gear down several times for some payback.
12/19/09 © Doug Kim
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“…good fortune is not only good fortune, and over the years things happened...”
“What did dead mean, Ray wondered. It meant lost, it mean frozen, it mean gone....”
“At Eversong, there were all sorts of dogs. And some of them, the ones I liked...”
“For three nights he hadn’t known how to touch my mother or what to say....”
“By the time darkness fell, the candles the latecomers had had the foresight to...”
“As he wrote, the candle in the window kept flickering, and despite his desk lamp...”
“If I walked too far and wondered loud enough the fields would change. I could...”
“Loss could be used as a measure of beauty in a woman.
~Alice Sebold (The Lovely...”
“Those who say they would rather fight to the death than be raped are fools. I...”
“She sat in her room on the couch my parents had given up on and worked on...”
“Inside the room it was dark now, the florescent light behind my father...”