"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer." |
| ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via fitzgeraldquotes) (via factoseintolerant) |
"If gay marriage affects your straight marriage obviously your marriage is pretty shitty to begin with." |
| ~ Mila Kunis (via puckersons) (via oywithepoodle) |
“Nostalgia. It’s delicate, but potent. In Greek, nostalgia literally means ‘the pain from an old wound.’ It’s a twinge, in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn’t a spaceship. It’s a time machine. Goes backwards, and forwards. Takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It’s not called The Wheel, it’s called The Carousel. Lets us travel the way a child travels, ‘round and around, and back home again… to a place where we know we were loved.”
(via callmeserena)
"And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn’t really change the fact that you have what you have." |
| ~ The Perks of Being A Wallflower (via polyploidy) (via badgley-love) |
"You can’t own a human being. You can’t lose what you don’t own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don’t, do you? And neither does he. You’re turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can’t value you more than you value yourself." |
| ~ Toni Morrison (via ronbeesly) |
"oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge." |
| ~ toni morrison. nobel lecture. 12/07/1993. (via mythicbeing) (via wrwererer) |
“It always has seemed to me that each human being, before going out into the silence, should leave behind him, not the story of his own life, but of the time in which he lived, - as he saw it, - its creed, its purpose, its queer habits, and the work which it did or left undone in the world.”
Rebecca Harding Davis
“My real self, the self I have always been from a child, is a loner and nerd, slightly overweight, with a very heavy fringe. That is who I was as a kid. I don’t think I will ever be anything other than that. It is sheer delight when I see pictures of myself now because I think: that’s not me. I was ‘Hayley Fatwell’ at school. I had the only-child syndrome of loving my independence to the point of being a bit socially retarded.”
(via mournforanera)
