#ill

Oof!" Adam caught me all right, with the side of his head. I could tell by the feel of his skull on my foot as I kicked him. He grabbed me the best he could anyway, and we half landed, half fell in the pine needles. He lay facedown on the ground. I flopped him over on his back to make sure he was alive. If he had a concussion, we'd have to call the ambulance, which meant we'd get caught and he'd get sent to military school. On the bright side, maybe the military school would not take him if he had brain damage. "I'm so sorry." "Worth it," he grunted. He rolled onto his feet like a ninja and grabbed my hand. "Hurry, before they release the hounds. ↗

— Jennifer Echols

#adam-vader #boys-next-door #comedy #echols #endless-summer

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#willful-ignorance #ignorance

There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#fools #self-deception #truth #willful-blindness #willful-ignorance

But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#lying #truth #willful-ignorance #ignorance

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#willful-ignorance #ignorance

Money is the great tool through whose means labor and skill become universally co-operative. ↗

— Leland Stanford

#co-operative #great #labor #means #money

My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#illness #cancer

I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the best I have been, which is when I have been midly manic. When I am my present "normal" self, I am far removed from when I have been my liveliest, most productive, most intense, most outgoing and effervescent. In sort, for myself, I am a hard act to follow. ↗

— Kay Redfield Jamison

#mania #manic #mental-illness #psychology #present

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#eyes #pain #shine #silly #song-lyrics

Silver nitrate and water in a super soaker," he told her. "My own invention. Ought to be good at twenty feet, kind of like wasp spray." Oh. "You get me the nicest things." "Anybody can get jewelry. Posers ↗

— Rachel Caine

#morganville-vampires #presents #shane-collins #present