#ch

That is the true challenge--to work within a narrow confine. To accept what you cannot have; that from which you cannot deviate. ↗

— Whitney Otto

#conformity #conformity

He...boasted an unassuming mustache, which was perched atop his upper lip cautiously, as though it were slightly embarrassed to be there and would like to slide away and become a sideburn or something more fashionable. ↗

— Gail Carriger

#description

I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#death

I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade? ↗

— Margaret Cho

#cho #gay #parade #sexuality #sexuality

Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality. ↗

— Iris Marion Young

#breastfeeding #breasts #children #feminism #motherhood

Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest. ↗

— Anatole France

#sex #sexuality

We forget very easily what gives us pain. ↗

— Graham Greene

#psychology

Almost everyone is overconfident--except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists. ↗

— Joseph T. Hallinan

#depression #psychology #realists #psychology

It is always assumed by the empty-headed, who chatter about themselves for want of something better, that people who do not discuss their affairs openly must have something to hide. ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#psychology #remaining-silent #reticence #silence #gossip

If you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#psychology