#ends

"...we’re all fucking Duffs.” (Designated Ugly Fat Friend) “I’m not the Duff,” Wesley said confidently. “That’s because you don’t have friends.” (Bianca) “Oh. Right.” ↗

— Kody Keplinger

#self-esteem #design

How long it takes to write a book depends on its length. ↗

— Walter Jon Williams

#depends #how #length #long #takes

So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#sisterhood #union #dreams

Nothing gives you confidence like being a member of a small, weirdly specific, hard-to-find demographic. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#dreams #friendship #humor #inspirational #life

If my tears spilled spontaneously at that moment it’s because I immediately understood that what was happening, like in a dream, was the treat you had prepared for me I felt your friendship much stronger than if you had thanked me a million times that what pleased and touched me. ↗

— Ai Yazawa

#nana #dreams

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#characteristics #completely #cut #dream #friends

Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful… ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#friendship #l-m-montgomery #dreams

I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#atonement #love #love

What I really needed wasn't a dose of school spirit; it was a glass of water, an aspirin the size of my fist, and the answers to the history exam that I hadn't studied for the night before. "As long as I'm dreaming," I muttered, my words lost to the cacophony of the gym, "I'd also like a pony, a convertible, and a couple of friends." "That's a tall order." I'd known that there were people sitting next to me, but I couldn't begin to imagine how one of them had heard me. I hadn't even heard me. "Would you settle for a piece of gum, an orange Tic Tac, and an introduction the the school slut? ↗

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#new-friends #sarcasm #dreams

We always see our worst selves. Our most vulnerable selves. We need someone else to get close enough to tell us we’re wrong. Someone we trust. ↗

— David Levithan

#love #reflection #trust #friendship