Alain De Botton, Status Anxiety
(via aseaofquotes)
"The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or not. These things are your becoming."
Cheryl Strayed, “Tiny Beautiful Things”
(Source: annaverity, via apsies)
"There were no sex classes. No friendship classes. No classes on how to navigate a bureaucracy, build an organization, raise money, create a database, buy a house, love a child, spot a scam, talk someone out of suicide, or figure out what was important to me. Not knowing how to do these things is what messes people up in life, not whether they know algebra or can analyze literature."
William Upski Wimsatt
(Source: radicalginger, via littlemiss)
"But sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes we are sad but we don’t really know we are sad. So we say we aren’t sad. But really we are."
Mark Haddon
(Source: durianquotes, via swanqween)
"I want someone who will be monogamous, and nice to his mother. And I want someone who likes musicals but knows to just shut his mouth when I’m watching LOST. And I want someone who thinks being really into cars is lame and strip clubs are gross. I want someone who will actually empty the dishwasher instead of just taking out forks as needed, like I do. I want someone with clean hands and feet and beefy forearms like a damn Disney prince. And I want him to genuinely like me, even when I’m old. And that’s what I want."
Liz Lemon
(Source: arewhedonyet)
"Learn that every day will be different; some days you can be “brave,” and some days you cannot. Don’t punish yourself with it, it’s okay. It’s normal."
Anthony Loyd
(Source: middlenameconfused, via wendesgray)
"People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves."
Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted
(Source: thenocturnals, via littlemiss)
