Latest Quotes

“You do not get to destroy someone and decide how ruined they are allowed to feel.”

— Anonymous, via Tumblr

“Your entire body shakes when you laugh, As if your sense of humour was built on a fault line And the coast of your heart falls into the ocean of yourself And I’m left looking for this Atlantis.”

— Shane Koyczan, Atlantis

“If you continuously go out of your way to make someone happy and they don’t return the energy, leave them because they don’t consider you worthy of the same energy they are taking from you.”

— Anonymous, via Tumblr

“Working is overrated. People try to make it about dignity, but it's all forced because of capitalism.”

— alicia fiasco, via twitter.com

“I don't think I'm gonna die tomorrow or even two weeks from now, or even ever. I just don't know — who the hell knows what's gonna happen to them? Nobody! Isn't that comforting? Nobody has a clue. I like that we don't know. And I like that it's somebody else's decision, not mine.”

— Elaine Stritch, Elaine Stritch, Volatile And Vulnerable In 'Shoot Me'

“You are not your age, Nor the size of clothes you wear, You are not a weight, Or the colour of your hair. You are not your name, Or the dimples in your cheeks, You are all the books you read, And all the words you speak, You are your croaky morning voice, And the smiles you try to hide, You're the s…”

— Erin Hanson, Not. | av Erin Hanson

“We define ourselves by the best that is in us, not the worst that has been done to us.”

— Anonymous,

“Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.”

— Susan Ertz, Anger in the Sky

“I get all my news from the memes”

— nic brodine, via twitter.com

“almost drunk enough to call my grandma”

— nic brodine, via twitter.com

“They didn't have very far to fall--I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to believe yourself. Feelings seemed completely unreliable, like faulty gibberish scraped from a Ouija board. My childhood visits to the family doctor were stressful events for that reason. He'd ask me…”

— Emma Cline, The Girls: A Novel

“How sad it was to realize that sometimes you never got there. That sometimes you lived a whole life skittering across the surface as the years passed, unblessed.”

— Emma Cline, The Girls: A Novel

“So much of desire, at that age, was a willful act. Trying so hard to slur the rough, disappointing edges of boys into the shape of someone we could love. We spoke of our desperate need for them with rote and familiar words, like we were reading lines from a play. Later I would see this: how imperson…”

— Emma Cline, The Girls: A Novel

“That was part of being a girl--you were resigned to whatever feedback you'd get. If you got mad, you were crazy, and if you didn't react, you were a bitch. The only thing you could do was smile from the corner they'd backed you into. Implicate yourself in the joke even if the joke was always on you.”

— Emma Cline, The Girls: A Novel

“Mr. Emanuel, who is now the mayor of Chicago but remains close to the president Obama, said he and Obama once imagined moving to Hawaii to open a T-shirt shack that sold only one size (medium) and one color (white). Their dream was that they would no longer have to make decisions. During difficult W…”

— Michael D. Shear, Obama After Dark: The Precious Hours Alone

“whoever I marry has to be cool with the fact that we're gonna spend our honeymoon in bushwick”

— nic brodine, via twitter.com

“You do care. You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”

— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets

“Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past.”

— Dan Brown, Deception Point

“Some people take a scalpel to the heart of media culture; Sady Doyle brings a bone saw, a melon baller, and a machete. Trainwreck is a blistering indictment of how history has normalized sexism as entertainment, defining—and destroying—the women we claim to love.”

— Andi Zeisler, We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement