"Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?"
- Timothy Leary
(via bluebiird)
"Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you’ll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit."
- Neil Gaiman
(via bluebiird)
"You owe reality nothing and the truth about your feelings everything."
- Richard Hugo
(via uberverbosity)
"There’s nothing wrong with being happy. There’s nothing wrong with enjoying something so much that it strips away all that irony and cynicism. And there’s nothing wrong with loving anything so much that it feels like it could pull your heart out of your chest and toss it on the floor. We build ourselves up to not do that, and then we build up the armor so thickly that we have trouble finding what’s underneath. We use that as an excuse to lash out at people who do feel stuff, who do like things (and I am, of course, mostly saying this about myself). It’s hard sometimes to remember that the world isn’t a place to glide through, so nothing can touch you. It’s a place to be experienced."
- Todd VanDerWerff (via monkeyknifefight)
(via thequietworld)
"We take pictures because we can’t accept that everything passes, we can’t accept that the repetition of a moment is an impossibility. We wage a monotonous war against our own impending deaths, against time that turns children into that other, lesser species: adults. We take pictures because we know we will forget. We will forget the week, the day, the hour. We will forget when we were happiest. We take pictures out of pride, a desire to have the best of ourselves preserved. We fear that we will die and others will not know we lived."
- Michelle Richmond (via bluebiird)
(via bluebiird)
"It was kind of a beautiful day, finally real summer in Indianapolis, warm and humid— the kind of weather that reminds you after a long winter that while the world wasn’t built for humans, we were built for the world."
-
“The Fault in Our Stars” (John Green)
(I briefly wanted to call the book It Was Kind of a Beautiful Day, but Julie convinced me I was insane.)
(via fishingboatproceeds)
"
It’s a weird thing, writing.
Sometimes you can look out across what you’re writing, and it’s like looking out over a landscape on a glorious, clear summer’s day. You can see every leaf on every tree, and hear the birdsong, and you know where you’ll be going on your walk.
And that’s wonderful.
Sometimes it’s like driving through fog. You can’t really see where you’re going. You have just enough of the road in front of you to know that you’re probably still on the road, and if you drive slowly and keep your headlamps lowered you’ll still get where you were going.
And that’s hard while you’re doing it, but satisfying at the end of a day like that, where you look down and you got 1500 words that didn’t exist in that order down on paper, half of what you’d get on a good day, and you drove slowly, but you drove.
And sometimes you come out of the fog into clarity, and you can see just what you’re doing and where you’re going, and you couldn’t see or know any of that five minutes before.
And that’s magic.
"- There’s more from today’s blog… It’s at http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2012/03/some-thoughts-on-writing-and-driving-in.html (via neil-gaiman)
(via neil-gaiman)
"To get really high is to forget yourself. And to forget yourself is to see everything else. And to see everything else is to become an understanding molecule in evolution, a conscious tool of the universe"
- Jerry Garcia (via onlyaslighthippie)
"For my part, I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars make me dream."
- Vincent van Gogh (via rararaizza) (via thestuffofstars, iheart-books) (via mimirscopybook)
He said to people: you’re free. And they said hooray and then he showed them what freedom cost and they called him a tryant and, as soon as he’d been betrayed, they milled about a bit like barn bred chickens who’ve seen the big world outside for the first time, and then they went back into the warm and shut the door.
-Terry Pratchet, Feet of Clay
(via fuckyeahdiscworld)
"There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty.
The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: ‘What’s up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don’t think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass!’
And at the other end of the bar the world is full of the other type of person, who has a broken glass, or a glass that has been carefully knocked over (usually by one of the people calling for a larger glass), or who had no glass at all, because they were at the back of the crowd and had failed to catch the barman’s eye."
- Terry Pratchett, The Truth (via tgadding)
(via fuckyeahdiscworld)
"I punched Chris Hemsworth in the face last week. Gave him a black eye. I was supposed to miss him. And I have to say for anyone who’s ever been in that situation where, as a girl, you think it’s not going to do anything — it fucking does something. He was standing over me, like, Huntsman-ing out, and I just went BOOM. I spun around, I punched him right out of his close-up. And then I started crying. I felt horrible… [but] it felt good in the way, like, I know this [gestures to her fist] works now. I can punch Chris Hemsworth. I can spin that man around!"
- Kristen Stewart (x)
(via falulatonks)
"It puzzles me how many people still believe ‘friendship’ or at least bonhomie conducted in cyberspace isn’t a valuable form of social contact, but, say, being thrown together at an NCT group, or in halls of residence, or because your desks at work face on to each other, is. Or that anodyne small talk with a neighbour is ‘genuine social stimulation,’ whereas chatting over Twitter with someone 6,000 miles away who loves Top Gun and Jefferson Airplane as much as you do is just lonely, dysfunctional nerds clashing in cyberspace. This, to my mind, is idiotic. It’s time for us all to come out of the closet about our secret internet chums."
- Grace Dent, How to Leave Twitter (via pitcherplant)
(via hayree)
