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But in the real world, you couldnt really just split a family down the middle, mom on one side, dad the other, with the child equally divided between. It was like when you ripped a piece of paper into two: no matter how you tried, the seams never fit exactly right again. It was what you couldn't see, those tiniest of pieces, that were lost in the severing, and their absence kept everything from being complete. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#family #relationships #equality

I know all those words, but that sentence makes no sense to me. ↗

— Matt Groening

#humor #language #satire #simpsons #social-commentary

More people are leaving TV behind to read my books than ever before. In the last year alone I gained over two readers (three, to be exact). So I’d like to take a moment and say thanks mom, dad, and kidnap victim I keep chained in the basement. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#books #coercion #dad #family #gratitude

He doesn’t have to love your CD collection. He doesn’t have to love your shoes. But any good, mature guy better make an attempt to love your friends and family—especially when they’re great. ↗

— Greg Behrendt

#guys #men #relationships #family

Hey—let’s get something straight. It’s a vampire/alien/zombie/warlock hybrid flick. ↗

— Julie James

#humor #humor

People either have comedy or they don't. You can't teach it to them. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#inspirational #humor

I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it. Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#library #architecture

Scrubbing the floor when no one else wanted to was something that my mother would have done. If I can't be with her, the least I can do is act like her sometimes. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#love #separation #family

The most enjoyable book in the world is the phone book, because think of all the sex that went into creating the content. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#books #content #create #enjoyment #family

Percy blinked. “So your brother is a winged horse. But you’re also my half brother, which means all the flying horses in the world are my…You know what? Lets’ forget it. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#flying-horses #percy-jackson #percy-jackson-and-the-olympians #the-heroes-of-olympus #the-mark-of-athena