I’m not used to being loved. I wouldn’t know what to do.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, More Than Just A House (via canhappenlove)
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…and you drink a little too much and try a little too hard. And you go home to a cold bed and think, ‘That was fine’. And your life is a long line of fine.
Gone Girl (Gillian Flynn)
If you should find yourself in a place that is indifferent to you and there is someone there that your spirit stretches to, then that person is kin.
Helen Oyeyemi, The Opposite House (via vintageanchorbooks)
Suddenly you’re 21 and you’re screaming along in the car to all the songs you listened to when you were sad in middle school and everything is different but everything is good.
If you’re a Kanye West fan, you’re not a fan of me, you’re a fan of yourself. You will believe in yourself. I’m just the espresso. I’m just a shot in the morning to get you going, to make you believe you can overcome the situation that you’re dealing with all the time.
Kanye West during his BBC Radio 1 interview with Zane Low (x)
It has never been against U.S. law to commit genocide against indigenous peoples — in fact, genocide is the law of the country. The United States could not exist without it. In the United States, democracy is actually the alibi for genocide — it is the practice that covers up United States colonial control over indigenous lands.
Andrea Smith, “Undoing Racism” (via makuahineoceania)
You have such a February face,
So full of frost, of storm, and cloudiness.
Don Pedro to Benedick, in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing (5.4.41-42)
But I tried, didn’t I? Goddamnit, at least I did that.
Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
…using someone else’s cultural symbols to satisfy a personal need for self-expression is an exercise in privilege.
You strip the bed, you open the window. You can’t strip yourself of your heart or your heart of itself or the room of its ghost, but today is better.
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