#ex

When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music, and the same teacher invited me back to speak at the school. I don't say that to brag, I just want to be an example. ↗

— Big Sean

#back #brag #example #following #graduated

No matter how convoluted my life got, one thing remained consistent- my hair looked like a baby opossum had taken refuge in it, invited some friends over, and thrown a party. ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#life

I'm poor, not homeless. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#life #perfect-chemistry #life

When You Weren't Looking ...why. ...Can't you ...care ...more ...about ...me. ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#real-life-struggle #sex #life

Dear Sir, poor sir, brave sir." he read, "You are an experiment by the Creator of the Universe. You are the only creature in the entire Universe who has free will. You are the only one who has to figure out what to do next - and why. Everybody else is a robot, a machine. Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines. You are pooped and demoralized, " read Dwayne. "Why wouldn't you be? Of course it is exhausting, having to reason all the time in a universe which wasn't meant to be reasonable. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#free-will #life #experience

Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and her arms and legs clutching him as a drowning woman might clutch another person to save her life. Don't don't don't don't leave me. DON'T LEAVE ME. As in animal copulation the frenzy is to be locked together not out of sentiment or choice but physical compulsion. As if bolts of electric current ran through both their bodies and would only release them from each other when it ceased. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#sex #life

My dick didn't seem to be aware that she was there. She kept asking me what was wrong, and I was so out of it that I thought she meant what was wrong with the world, so I started talking about global poverty and shit. I'm not surprised she left. I suspect she won't be coming back. ↗

— Nikki Sixx

#sex #humor

In one drop of water are found all the secrets of all the oceans; in one aspect of You are found all the aspects of existence. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#life #water #life

When life gives you lemons, go murder a clown. ↗

— Festus Krex Skyrim

#elder-scrolls #festus-krex #skyrim #life

Play to your strengths.” “I haven’t got any,” said Harry, before he could stop himself. “Excuse me,” growled Moody, “you’ve got strengths if I say you’ve got them. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#education #encouragement #exhortation #prophecy #education