#it

His hand closed automatically around the fake Horcrux but in spite of everything, in spite of the dark and twisting path he saw stretching ahead for himself, in spite of the final meeting with Voldemort he knew must come whether in a month in a year or in ten, he felt his heart lift at the thought that there was still one last golden day of peace left to enjoy with Ron and Hermione. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#loyality #friendship

Remember, the change you want to see in the world, and in your school, begins with you. ↗

— Joseph Clementi

#equality #gay-rights #human-rights #change

I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that. ↗

— Josephine Baker

#equality

Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth. ↗

— Lucy Parsons

#equality

There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time. ↗

— Stephen King

#equality

The shoddy work of despair, the pointless work of pride, equally betray Creation. They are wastes of life. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#equality

To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and equally warranted for those of sound insight'. All others were irrational, merely symptoms of imaginations left idle, of memories out of work. And above these mundane responses, the only elevation allowable, the only valid transcendence, was a sardonic one: a bliss that annihilated the universe with jeers of dark joy, a mindful ecstasy. Anything else in the way of 'mysticism' was a sign of deviation or distraction, and a heresy to the obvious. (“The Medusa”) ↗

— Thomas Ligotti

#insanity #melancholy #mysticism #sanity #sardonic

A woman's never too old to make an idiot of herself. It goes along with equality of the sexes and potty parity. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#equality

If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the observer that heterosexuality issues from a disappointed homosexuality? ↗

— Judith Butler

#homosexuality #sex #sexual-orientation #sexuality #equality

Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#life #nowhere #open-heart #status #truth