21 Feb
Without pain, how could we know joy?’ This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.
John Green (The Fault in Our Stars)
(Source: thecuriouscheshirecat)
21 Feb
She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful.
Neil Gaiman
(Source: teefz)
30 Sep
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.
Marilyn Monroe (via myquotelibrary)
05 Sep
We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it’s forever.
Carl Sagan
(Source: seawardseaweed)
29 Aug
Be the best that you can in everything you do, because in life every encounter is a performance.
George N. Parks (via madisonhasfriends)
(Source: loveiknow)
27 Aug
The best moments in reading are when you come across something – a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things – that you’d thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you’ve never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it’s as if a hand has come out, and taken yours.
The History Boys (via prettybooks)
27 Aug
All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
American Gods by Neil Gaiman (via dreamerdefect)
(Source: inkwellforaheart)
