#ado

Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow… ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#louisa-may-alcott #shadow #sunshine #louisa-may-alcott

Okay. ↗

— John Green

#awww #im-gonna-cry #the-fault-in-our-stars

Boys and girls hid in the library stacks or behind the gym and flew at each other with no promise of love or even kindness, tasting one another in clumsly attempts to steal pleasure before they could be hurt or hated. ↗

— Laura Whitcomb

#love

We all romanticize the people we adore. ↗

— John Green

#love #romance #love

Procrastinate now, don't put it off. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#paradox #procrastination #humor

He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#paradox #religion #humor

What was he? A mere human, stuck between the rungs of blended adolescence and nascent adulthood. What power did he command over the mysterious forces of love? Which sword could shatter the impenetrable armour of desire? ↗

— Faraaz Kazi

#confusion #desire #love #love

I am Dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it. ↗

— Isaac Marion

#humor #paradox #humor

Don't you know that it is only the very foolish folk who talk sense all the time? (Anne) ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#paradox #humor

Americans invented adolescence. It is not a natural phenomenon. Adolescence is a social construct, created by an urban-industrial society that keeps its young at home far past puberty. Teenage angst is a luxury if a successful modern human conceit that isn't condoned by our superior species. ↗

— Sarah Beth Durst

#angst #humour #love