18 May
What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.
The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis (via itookadeepbreath)
(Source: effyeahyoungadultlit)
06 Oct
Charlie don’t you get it? I can’t feel that. It’s sweet and everything, but it’s like you’re not even there sometimes. It’s great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn’t need a shoulder. What if they need the arms or something like that? You can’t just sit there and put everybody’s lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You just can’t. You have to do things.
- Perks of Being A Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
*Finally finished the book. Will post my thoughts on it soon. MUST DO things!
05 Sep
I look at people holding hands in the hallways, and I try to think about how it all works. At the school dances, I sit in the background, and I tap my toe, and I wonder how many couples will dance to “their song.” In the hallways, I see the girls wearing the guys’ jackets, and I think about the idea of property. And I wonder if anyone is really happy. I hope they are. I really hope they are.
The Perks of Being A Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
02 Sep
There will always be betrayals because we are men, not angels. But they who betray— no pile of money, no shining title or other forms of adulation by which they were bought can assuage the self-hate, the sense of inferiority and sickening weakness which will corrode their very bones. They know this and there is no greater punishment than this self-knowledge. They cannot end it with suicide for they know that such an act is the final push that bogs them into the slime of their own creation.
- Po-on, F.Sionil Jose
02 Sep
There is no escape then from this prison that is living, just as there was no escape, too, from his unquenchable yearning for knowledge.
- Po-on, F.Sionil Jose
12 Aug
The worst thing isn’t that the world isn’t free, but that people have unlearned their freedom.
Milan Kundera (Life Is Elsewhere) (via bodywithoutorgans) (via fuckyeahexistentialism) (via nosebluntslide)
