#green

Often I'll go outside and just place my hands on the soil, even if there's no work to do on it. When I am filled with worries, I do that and I can feel the energy of the mountains and of the trees. ↗

— Andy Couturier

#community #environmentalism #gardening #green #japan

Her underwear, her jeans, the comforter, my corduroys and my boxers between us, I thought. Five layers, and yet I felt it, the nervous warmth of touching – a pale reflection of the fireworks of one mouth on another, but a reflection nonetheless. And in the almostness of the moment, I cared at least enough. I wasn’t sure whether I liked her, and doubted whether I could trust her, but I cared at least enough to try to find out. Her on my bed, wide green eyes staring down at me. The enduring mystery of her sly, almost smirking, smile. Five layers between us. ↗

— John Green

#green #john #kissing #sex #sexual

Girls think they’re only allowed to wear dresses on formal occasions, but I like a woman who says, you know, I’m going over to see a boy who is having a nervous breakdown, a boy whose connection to the sense of sight itself is tenuous, and gosh dang it, I am going to wear a dress for him. ↗

— John Green

#the-fault-in-our-stars #connection

There is, incidentally, no way of talking about cats that enables one to come off as a sane person. ↗

— Dan Greenberg

#dan-greenberg #insanity #sanity #sanity

Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it? ↗

— Andy Couturier

#environmentalism #green #japan #sustainability #money

But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own. "Lovely dimples, like little dents in cream. I have given up all hope of dimples. My dimple-dream will never come true; but so many of my dreams have that I mustn't complain. Am I all ready now? ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#anne-shirley #dimples #fiction #l-m-montgomery #dreams

What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#mental-illness #mental-illness

She smashes her knuckles into winter As autumn's wind fades into black She is the saint of all the sinners, the one whose fallen through the cracks... (iViva la Gloria!) ↗

— Billie Joe Armstrong

#bja #green-day #punk #sin #viva

Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start. ↗

— John Green

#simile #john-green

You put funny people in funny costumes and paint them green and we could talk about anything we wanted to, because that was the only thing that fascinated Gene about this particular genre. ↗

— Majel Barrett

#anything #because #costumes #could #fascinated