#dole

It wasn't until we dropped him at his university dormitory and left him there looking touchingly lost and bewildered amid an assortment of cardboard boxes and suitcases in a spartan room not unlike a prison cell that it really hit home that he was vanishing out of our lives and into his own. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#growing-up #love #parenthood #love

Because they do burn leaves here, the older folks do, and I remember now that I love it and always have. The way fall feels at night because of it, because of the crackling sound and walking around the sidewalks, like when you’re a kid, and kicking those soft piles, and seeing smoke from backyards and Mr. Kilstrap standing over the metal drum with the holes in the top, the sparking embers at his feet. ↗

— Megan Abbott

#adolescence #philosophy #reflection #love

I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls. ↗

— Kate Beckinsale

#always #anorexia #available #breakdown #felt

The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention. ↗

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#attack #attention #condoleezza #condoleezza rice #cruel