“It’s not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
—Stephen Fry (via suzywire)
November 2010
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“I need to believe that something extraordinary is possible.”
—A Beautiful Mind (via julie911)
“To have dismantled one’s self in order finally to be alone and meet the true double at the other end of the line. A clandestine passenger on a motionless voyage. To become like everybody else; but this, precisely, is a becoming only for one who knows how to be nobody, to no longer be anybody…”
—Deleuze & Guattari
SOMETIMES
I look at people and think, “gosh, why are you such a raging dumbass right now?”
We sit and talk quietly,
with long lapses of silence,
and I am aware of the stream that has no language,
coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes, which has no speech.— William Carlos Williams
“Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her—when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?”
—Helen Rowland (via whyimsingle)
“When it comes to [people] who are romantically interested in you, it’s really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.”
—Randy Pausch (via amusemi)
“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.”
—The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (via floralandlace)
“The newspaper headline screams: “Eighteen-Year-Old Slain by Husband after Giving Birth.” As you continue reading, you learn that the young woman was brainwashed by a strange blood-drinking cult who call themselves a “family,” though none of the members were actually related. The young woman’s husband was much older than she and had a history of violence. In fact, you learn that her husband used to stalk her prior to her marriage, watching her secretly from the woods near her home and climbing into an unsecured window at night to watch her sleep without her knowledge. Once the young woman, then seventeen, was initiated into a relationship with the man and his “family,” she was encouraged to marry right after her high school graduation. The young woman reportedly had bruises all over her body after returning from her honeymoon, where she also reportedly became pregnant. Her husband was not happy about the pregnancy and wanted her to have an abortion. She refused, eventually leading to him ripping the child from her womb, then, draining her of her blood until she finally stopped breathing. Sounds torturous and sick, doesn’t it? But in fact, this is the basis of a tween-teen literary phenomenon called the Twilight saga…”
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Twilight and Philosophy, p.178 (chapter by Rebecca Housel)
(via thefistofartemis)
L-O-FUCKING-L
Waiting for somebody to take you by the hand and say: fuck the world you’re in, fuck it. It’s time for mayhem. It’s time for self-revelation motherfuckers. It’s time for destruction. It’s time for consequences.
“Our integrity sells for so little, but it’s all that we really have. It is the very last inch of us, but within that inch, we are free.”
—V for Vendetta
Rabbit Fur Coat
Jenny Lewis With The Watson Twins
“Rabbit Fur Coat” - Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins
“Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she’d wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was a certain lonely comfort in the fact that she’d known it was impossible and had gone ahead and done it anyway.”
—(via wildcardinside)
“At the end of the day, you have to feel really good in what you wear, like, you have to and even if it’s maybe a little crazy, if you feel good then fuck the others.”
— Lady Gaga (via lexmarie)
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
—Jack Kerouac (via lajoiedevivre)
“I am vulnerable. Starved for kindness, and when I receive it, I lose my mind.”
—Marjorie Liu, from “Tiger Eye” (via thechocolatebrigade)
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And if you want me
You better speak up- I won’t wait
So you better, move fast
Don’t fool yourself
In thinking you’re more than you are
With your arms outstretched to me
“I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going—I have no post-satisfaction.”
—Karl Lagerfeld
Noel’s response to this tweet. (via jessicachu)
Noel’s response to this tweet. (via jessicachu)
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.”
—Paulo Coelho (via quotewhore)
“Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn that anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.”
—David Whyte (astroinquiry via saturnrising) (via melancholynotes) (via starsmending)
