the meaning of life is meatballs
❝ But in life, you can either ask for what you want and suffer the possibility of judgment, or you can pretend you want something else and almost certainly get it. It’s remarkable to me how long I chose the latter. ❞
- Sarah Hepola,
Here Is Everything I Learned in New York City
❝ One doesn’t think about love. Either one feels it or one doesn’t feel it. ❞
- Como Agua Para Chocolate
❝ I’m the type who’d be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn’t going to. I’m the type who’d like to sit home and watch every party that I’m invited to on a monitor in my bedroom. ❞
- Andy Warhol (via
wordscreated)
❝ I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words. By beauty, I mean the feeling you have suddenly glimpsed another world, or looked into a portal that reveals a kind of magic or romance out of which the world has been constructed, a feeling there is something more than the mundane, and a reason for our plodding. ❞
- Donald Miller, To Own a Dragon
❝ Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. It’s part of our perverse, madcap love for this impossible planet we inhabit. People die when curiosity goes. People have to find out, people have to know. ❞
- Graham Swift,
Waterland (via
itsmaureenie)
❝ Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself. ❞
- Sylvia Plath (via
stomachin2knots)
❝ I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. ❞
-
Neil Gaiman
As do I, NG.
(via hermionejg)
(Source: thatquote)
❝ The decision to kiss for the first time is the most crucial in any love story. It changes the relationship of two people much more strongly than even the final surrender; because this kiss already has within it that surrender. ❞
- Emil Ludwig
❝ Let no man pull you so low as to make you hate him. ❞
- Booker T. Washington
❝ A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger wast, the you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncomprimising allegiance to obscenity and evil. ❞
- Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried (66)
❝ And that’s what stories are for. Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can’t remember how you got from where you were to where you are. Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember but the story ❞
- Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried (36)
❝ Swag swag swag, on you Chillin by the fire while we eatin’ fondue I dunno about me but I know about you So say hello to falsetto in three two ❞
- the genius lyricist justin bieber
❝ Patriarchy is not men. Patriarchy is a system in which both women and men participate. It privileges, inter alia, the interests of boys and men over the bodily integrity, autonomy, and dignity of girls and women. It is subtle, insidious, and never more dangerous than when women passionately deny that they themselves are engaging in it. This abnormal obsession with women’s faces and bodies has become so normal that we (I include myself at times—I absolutely fall for it still) have internalized patriarchy almost seamlessly. We are unable at times to identify ourselves as our own denigrating abusers, or as abusing other girls and women. ❞
- Ashley Judd
(Source: thedailybeast.com)
❝ But do you realize what a passing fancy that whole so-called modern movement is? You must learn to understand- and it has been proved by all authorities- that everything beautiful beautiful in architecture has been done already. There is a treasure mine in every style of the past. We can only choose from the great masters. Who are we to improve upon them? We can only attempt, respectfully to repeat.”
“Why?” asked Howard Roark ❞
- Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
