#ex

Once I ran out of excuses, I reclaimed my life. Now, I don't need excuses. ↗

— Jamie Anne Richardson

#happiness #positive-thinking #life

He was secretive, bossy, and regularly insufferable. He had also saved my life a couple of times. And he looked really good in my kitchen. ↗

— Kalayna Price

#life

mooo," she said... "I mean mmmm," she moaned. Louder this time. Goddamn Dr. Seuss is ruining my sex life. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#life

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#extraordinary #life #ordinary #truth #life

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. ↗

— Albert A. Bartlett

#humanity #life #science #sustainability #sustainable-development

It's creepy, but here we are, the Pilgrims, the crackpots of our time, trying to establish our own alternate reality. To build a world out of rocks and chaos. What it's going to be, I don't know. Even after all that rushing around, where we've ended up is the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night. And maybe knowing isn't the point. Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#construction #importance-of-existence #life #living #life

To sit in solemn silence on a dull, dark dock in a pestilential prison with a life-long lock awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock from a cheap and chippy chopper on a big, black block. ↗

— W.S. Gilbert

#life

اعتقادي أن هناك وعدا آخر.. ثمة شخص جمع الأوغاد والأفاقين وفاقدي الهمة من أرجاء الأرض في وطن قومي واحد هو مصر .. لهذا لا تجد في اليابان فاقد همة .. لهذا لا تجد في ألمانيا وغدا .. لهذا لا تجد في الأرجنتين أفاقا .. كلهم هنا يا صاحبي!" هتف في دهشة وهو يطلق أبخرة الحشيش " -"يا سلام .. هناك من وعد الـ..." ثم لم يستكمل العبارة لأن رأسه مال علي صدره ونام .. خيط لعاب يسيل على ذقنه.. ↗

— أحمد خالد توفيق

#experience

Listen, kiddo,” he said. “I’m a selfish prick, and I want to be the greatest fuck of your life and ruin you for every man who comes after me. But I’m not a mind reader, so I need some help. Otherwise I could end up as the douchebag who’s got shitty taste in wine and totally traumatized you when you were thirty. ↗

— Cara McKenna

#selfish #life

Jack stares at me blankly. ‘A what?’ he asks. I choke back the laugh. ‘A boy. You know? A Y-chromosome holder? You don’t seem to notice them as much as you do the X-carriers.’ ‘What are you talking about?’ Jack asks, ‘A boy? She’s just a kid.’ I hesitate, wondering how Jack is only just doing the maths on this one now. ‘She’s seventeen. She’s not a kid anymore.’ Jack looks like he’s about to go all Incredible Hulk and burst out of his clothes before rampaging through the bar. He jumps off the stool. ‘If any boy ever lays a finger on my sister, I’m going to kill him,’ he says. Again I stare at him in silence, thinking of all the girls Jack has laid fingers and much more of his anatomy on besides. Poor Lila. If she ever wants to have a shot at a normal life, as in one that doesn’t require a vow of celibacy, she needs to stay in London. ↗

— Sarah Alderson

#jack #life