#got

I am the burrito in the taco. Hold your skepticism, and the lettuce. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #funny

...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at. ↗

— Chris Crutcher

#prejudice #racism #small-mindedness #prejudice

This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow. ↗

— Mervyn Peake

#description #gothic #owl #purple #ruin

All our silences in the face of racist assault are acts of complicity. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#racism

The sad truth about bigotry is that most bigots either don't realize that they are bigots, or they convince themselves that their bigotry is perfectly justified. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#bigot #bigotry #bigots #delusion #denial

The questions push me further into the space in between, the place where my madness lays waiting for me. I struggle with each question, determined to extract some sort of answer, an explanation for everything that has happened so far. But no answers come and I’m forced to acknowledge the feeling lodged between my two worlds Terror. ↗

— Christine Fonseca

#horror #psychological-thriller #ya #thriller

Another tug and a yank at my chestnut curls and she snarls at me, “You are so much like her.” This is something my mother often says and never explains. Though it is a great mystery to me it is also a blessing, for she always hurries from the room after saying it. ↗

— Gwenn Wright

#dark-romance #gothic-romance #strong-heroine #suspense-drama #thriller

You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true? ↗

— Oscar Hammerstein II

#dream #gonna #gotta #how #make

The problem is hedonism. The problem is the preening vanity and selfishness of 'coming out,' of parading private inclinations, of a kind that repel normal people, as if those inclinations were, all by themselves, marks of authenticity and virtue, of suffering and oppression. ↗

— John Derbyshire

#hedonish #selfishness #vanity #pessimism

I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#forgotten #heart-ache #heartache