“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.”

Jeanette Winterson (via thebooker)

“The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you figure out why.”

Mark Twain  (via you-are-my-piece-of-paradise)

“when your little girl
asks you if she’s pretty
your heart will drop like a wineglass
on the hardwood floor
part of you will want to say
of course you are, don’t ever question it
and the other part
the part that is clawing at
you
will want to grab her by her shoulders
look straight into the wells of
her eyes until they echo back to you
and say
you do not have to be if you don’t want to
it is not your job
both will feel right
one will feel better
she will only understand the first
when she wants to cut her hair off
or wear her brother’s clothes
you will feel the words in your
mouth like marbles
you do not have to be pretty if you don’t want to
it is not your job”

it is not your job | Caitlyn Siehl (via elle-emeno-pee)

“I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life.”

Paulo Coelho (via thepaintedbench)

“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.”

Stephen R. Covey (via birthofasupervillain)

“Common threads amongst homophobes: one is that you choose to be gay, the second one is “All gay people are recruiting others to be gay”, and the third is that they are exactly the same as pedophiles, that there’s no difference”

“The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream along with you, and in this way memory and imagination and language combine to make spirits in the head. There is the illusion of aliveness.”

― Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried (via senselessrose)

• someone: *says something*
• me: breaks into a song with a word they just said