#ado

It's easier to floss with barbed wire than admit you like someone in middle school. ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#awkwardness #emotion #school #emotion

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#difference #paradox #significance #action

I think we can put our differences behind us. For science. You monster." -GLaDOS, Portal 2 trailer ↗

— Valve

#portal #portal- #science

Camus-boy, you're always going to be the same you, just older. It's not like there's a moment when you wake up and go, Shit, I'm grown-up, I don't feel like myself anymore.' I don't tell him, but this is the scariest fucking thing I've ever heard in my life. Being grown-up should feel like a big transition. It can't be something that, despite my best efforts, I've been drifting closer and closer to every summer. It needs to be a shock. I need to know at what point to stop holding on. And that moment will suck, and probably every moment after that will suck, but at least I'll know that everything that came before really was valid. I really was young and innocent. I wasn't fooling myself. ↗

— Hannah Moskowitz

#adulthood #growing-up #life

Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace. ↗

— A. Powell Davies

#life #meaning #peace #reverence #life

If I fail I’ll come back to you... Then both of us will die together. Both of us will vanish from the life of our tribe. ↗

— Amador T. Daguio

#wedding-dance #life

Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and you kill the patient. ↗

— Rohinton Mistry

#economy #money #shadow-economy #family

YOU AND YOU ALONE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN HAPPINESS, NOT ANYONE ELSE ↗

— Sondra A. Torres

#autobiography #family #fetal-alcohol-syndrome #inspirational #family

You are the one star I wish upon nightly; praying your glory will fall from the heavens and land in my undeserving arms.  ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#heaven #love #lovers #richelle #richelle-goodrich

The beggarly question of parentage--what is it, after all? What does it matter, when you come to think of it, whether a child is yours by blood or not? All the little ones of our time are collectively the children of us adults of the time, and entitled to our general care. That excessive regard of parents for their own children, and their dislike of other people's, is, like class-feeling, patriotism, save-your-own-soul-ism, and other virtues, a mean exclusiveness at bottom. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#parental-love #love