#darling

Perspective basically guarantees that there’s no such thing as a pure emotion. Every emotion is based on how sucky (or not) something is in relation to something else that has already happened. I realized that Hy and Marcus and my ankle wouldn’t be so huge if I had experienced a Hiroshima-size disaster.It kind of makes me wish that the worst thing that will ever happen to me will just hurry up and happen already. That way I could live the rest of my life in bliss, if only because I know how much worse things could be. ↗

— Megan McCafferty

#life

In choosing to be a Psychology major, I decided to learn for the joy of learning for the first time in my life. I'd always been fascinated by human nature. What makes us act the way we do? Why do we make the same mistakes over and over? But I guess my interest is purely theoretical. I'm a Psychology major who has no desire to work with people. This was poor planning on my part, I suppose. My parents definitely think so. But choosing passion over practicality seemed so honorable when I was a first-year student and graduation seemed so very, very far away . . . But now, a semester away from unemployment, I realize how much better off those Engineering students really are. Sure, they're boring conversationalists that make you want to kill yourself because every story begins, “The other day? In the lab?” But people become a whole helluva lot more interesting when they're pulling down six figures, don't they? If I'm going to drag my friends out to my cardboard box, the pressure's on to provide some pretty goddamned sparkling conversation once they get there. And even with all my noble knowledge for knowledge's sake, I'm not sure I can. ↗

— Megan McCafferty

#life

In a maturing market it's not advisable to be always everybody's darling, because you get too thin. ↗

— Thorstein Heins

#always #because #darling #everybody #get

Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember. ↗

— Oliver Herford

#cannot #darling #form #member #moment

I'm not a media darling. I'm not on the cover of all these magazines. I just quietly do my thing. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#darling #i #just #magazines #media

The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#course #darling #overall #reason #successful

What will I be doing in twenty years' time? I'll be dead, darling! Are you crazy? ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#darling #dead #doing #i #time

Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#deny #fortune #group #i #inspiration

Women will always choose the man over the best friend. This is a sad but true fact of life, and it's only this certitude that makes me unashamed to admit it. ↗

— Megan McCafferty

#marcus-flutie #life

Sarah Lynn strides out of the stairwell. Lawrence watches her go. The door slushes shut behind her, and he turns to me with a tightened jaw. I want to tell him: No, no, you've got it all wrong. I don't care if you kiss a white girl. I don't care if you love a white girl. I just wish you'd chosen a white girl worthy of your love. Lawrence's Adam's apple jerks up and down, and I realize that in addition to whatever else he's feeling, he's scared. He's in love with the darling of the school, Sarah Lynn Lancaster, ad he's afriad I'll expose his secret. I give a tiny shake of my head, wanting him to know he has nothing to fear, not from me. ↗

— Lauren Myracle

#darling #scared #secret #white #love