- Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.
- I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
- Replace fear of the unknown with curiousity.
- Stop being yourself and become who you’ve always wanted to be.
- There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. then there is another theory which states that this has already happened.
- I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do like her, then you're supposed to like her face, and if you like her face, you ought to be careful about doing crumby stuff to it, like squirting water all over it. It's really too bad that so much crumby stuff is a lot of fun sometimes.
- The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
- I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane.
- Looking for Alaska, by John Green
- Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for plannning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future--you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.
- Paper Towns, by John Green
- I like the strings. I always have. Because that’s how it feels. But the strings make pain seem more fatal than it is, I think. We’re not as frail as the strings would make us believe. And I like the grass too. The grass got me to you, helped me to imagine you as an actual person. But we’re not different sprouts from the same plant. I can’t be you. You can’t be me. You can imagine another well—but never quite perfectly, you know? Maybe it’s more like you said before, all of us being cracked open. Like, each of us starts out as a watertight vessel. And these things happen— these people leave us, or don’t love us, or don’t get us, or we don’t get them, and we lose and fail and hurt one another. And the vessel cracks open in places. And I mean, yeah, once the vessel cracks open, the end becomes inevitable. Once it starts to rain inside the Osprey, it will never be remodeled. But there is all this time between when the cracks start to open up and we finally fall apart. And it’s only in that time that we can see one another, because we see out of ourselves through the cracks and into others through theirs. When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I saw into yours. Before that, we were just looking at ideas of each other, like looking at your window shade but never seeing inside. But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.
- What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.
- Bro, I saw your mom kiss you on the cheek this morning, and forgive me, but I swear to God I was like, "Man, I wish I was Q. And also, I wish my cheeks had penises."
- And maybe by imagining these futures we can make them real, and maybe not, but either way we must imagine them.
- Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
- Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
- Saying 'I notice you're a nerd' is like saying, 'Hey, I notice that you'd rather be intelligent than be stupid, that you'd rather be thoughtful than be vapid, that you believe that there are things that matter more than the arrest record of Lindsay Lohan. Why is that?' In fact, it seems to me that most contemporary insults are pretty lame. Even 'lame' is kind of lame. Saying 'You're lame' is like saying 'You walk with a limp.' Yeah, whatever, so does 50 Cent, he's done alright for himself.
- ... and it argues that true love will triumph in the end, which may or may not be true, but if it's a lie, it's the most beautiful lie we have.
- Disneyland is like falling in love, someone is taking your hand and you go on this enchanting evening, you look into each other's eyes and it's all very romantic and nice. Six Flags is like being repeatedly fucked hard over and over again until you just leave shaking and exhausted, but ultimately better for having had that experience.
- Shawn: Yeah, I'm squealing, that's the sound you make when your best friend takes a gun and stabs you in the back right in front of your eyes!
- Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all, those who live without love.
- Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- Life’s too awesome to waste your time thinking about someone who doesn’t treat you right.
- Cory: Maybe if Hamlet had worn pants he could have made a decision or two. Topanga: Is that a sexist comment? Cory: That's what I was shootin' for.
- Topanga: ... She will play street hockey at any time, day or night... why don't you just marry Shawn? Cory: 'Cause our kids would look like horses.
- (706): Biggest lesson I have learned in college: Drink if you are happy. Drink more if you aren't.
- Alan: Girls are going to be rattling your cage for the next 60 years. Cory: Til I'm 71?! Alan: Yeah, but then you get a break. Cory: You do? Alan: Yeah, you die.
- Shawn: "Tell me something, how do you ask a girl out?" Cory: "Simple, you open the door and say 'get out, you're bothering me'"
- "Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?"
- I live in New York, and I was thinking about the lagoon in Central Park, down near Central Park South. I was wondering if it would be frozen over when I got home, and if it was, where did the ducks go? I was wondering where the ducks went when the lagoon got all icy and frozen over. I wondered if some guy came in a truck and took them away to a zoo or something. Or if they just flew away.
- The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
- Angela: Well, is any one of us safe? Shawn: Yeah, virgins. Virgins never die. Cory: All right! Thanks for saving me. Eric: I'm dead! Jack: I'm dead. Shawn: I'll get as sick as you can get without actually... dying. Angela: Feeny, he's dead. Eric: All right! Go, Feeny, go, Feeny!
- Cory: Ever since I was young, I never really understood anything about the world. And I never understood anything that happened in my life. The only thing that ever made any sense to me was you. And how I felt about you. That's all I've ever known. And that's enough for the rest of my life.
- Harry: You’re the weak one. And you’ll never know love, or friendship. And I feel sorry for you. Lord Voldemort: You’re a fool, Harry Potter, and you will lose everything.
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