#gh

Evil always turns up in this world through some genius or other. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#evil #genius #other #some #through

I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a song. It's more like you write what comes to you... You try to reflect the mood of the songs. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#am #come #comes #enough #good

And then there was Jacob, who stepped closer to me and then waited, letting me decide whether I would take the next step. Balanced there in indecision, it was as if the Twisted Sisters were before me, shaking their pom-poms, asking: But what is fair about staying with a guy who is ashamed to be seen with you? What was so miraculous about a relationship that was based more on my gratitude than mutual respect. ↗

— Justina Chen

#beauty

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. ↗

— Joan Didion

#forget #never #never forget #soon #things

I hadn't thought that I was generally a pack rat, but it turns out I am. ↗

— Joan Didion

#generally #hadn #i #i am #out

I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter. ↗

— Joan Didion

#i #right #tiny #totally #typewriter

I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#being #eyes #feel #gas #gas station

Once I get over maybe a hundred pages, I won't go back to page one, but I might go back to page fifty-five, or twenty, even. But then every once in a while I feel the need to go to page one again and start rewriting. ↗

— Joan Didion

#back #even #every #feel #get

There is that thing about not working with animals and children - I don't think that's true. Although you should never work with donkeys. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#although #children #donkeys #i #never

Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before? ↗

— Joan Didion

#anyone #before #choice #choices #devoid