September 2011
Take To The Sky: Pronouncing Australian cities: A guide →
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(don’t take this too seriously, please. Us Australians have lazy accents)
Sydney
- Incorrect: SIDE-nee
- Correct: SID-nee
Melbourne
- Incorrect: MEL-born
- Correct: MEL-bin / MEL-ben
Canberra
“It’s just that…I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It’s the universe’s way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It’s how life is.”
—Sarah Dessen, The Truth about Forever (via 15natives)
“We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.”
—Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook (via 15natives)
“I still think that, sometimes, maybe the “afterlife” is just something we made up to ease the pain of loss, to make our time in the labyrinth bearable.”
—Looking For Alaska (via amentis)
“We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.”
—Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook (via 15natives)
“If you wake up and you’re not in pain, you know you’re dead.”
—Russian Proverb (via hiraiya)
“I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can’t feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. But I think I have known it pretty often, too often.”
—Charles Bukowski, “Tales of Ordinary Madness” (via anditslove)
