“To die would be an awfully big adventure.”
-Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie
Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk — real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.
― Jack Kerouac - On the Road (via a-new-american-classic)
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
― Jack Kerouac, the Dharma Bums (via winedarkseas)
Why am I so anxious? And then it hits me. I’m not anxious, I’m lonely. And I’m lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be so lonely because it seems catastrophic - seeing the car just as it hits you.
― Augusten Burroughs, Dry (via 1995you)
We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out.
You have five minutes to wallow in the delicious misery. Enjoy it, embrace it, discard …and proceed.
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-Elizabethtown
(via missnyu)
Relationships don’t work the way they do on television and in the movies. Will they? Won’t they? And then they finally do, and they’re happy forever. Gimme a break. Nine out of ten of them end because they weren’t right for each other to begin with, and half of the ones who get married get divorced anyway, and I’m telling you right now, through all this stuff, I have not become a cynic, I haven’t. Yes, I do happen to believe that love is mainly about pushing chocolate covered candies and, y’know, in some cultures, a chicken. You can call me a sucker, I don’t care, because I do believe in it. Bottom line is: it’s couples who are truly right for each other wade through the same crap as everybody else, but the big difference is they don’t let it take them down. One of those two people will stand up and fight for that relationship every time. If it’s right, and they’re real lucky, one of them will say something.
― Dr. Cox, Scrubs (via captainjasha)
When you start to live outside yourself, it’s all dangerous.
― The Garden of Eden, Ernest Hemmingway (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
