#journal

I think I know what military fame is; to be killed on the field of battle and have your name misspelled in the newspapers. ↗

— William T. Sherman

#glory #journalism #military

I will be known forever as the Puppy who chased a cutpurse and caught fish garbage instead. My descendants will pretend I'm not in their bloodline. No – no one will want to make descendants with me. [from Beka Cooper's journal of her first day as a new Dog i.e. cop] ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#first-day #police-officer #journalism

I can't deceive myself that out of the bare stark realization that no matter how enthusiastic you are, no matter how sure that character is fate, nothing is real, past or future, when you are alone in your room with the clock ticking loudly into the false cheerful brilliance of the electric light. And if you have no past or future which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well dispose of the empty shell of present and commit suicide. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#future #loneliness #suicide #journalism

I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#journalism

The best fiction is far more true than any journalism. ↗

— William Faulkner

#truth #journalism

I'm a creature of the night for God's sake And she wants me home by eleven? ↗

— Heather Brewer

#journalism

Don't read my diary when I'm gone. Ok, I'm going to work now, when you wake up this morning, please read mmy diary. Look trough my things, and figure me out. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#journalism

I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#personalities #personality #pieces #journalism

No. The answer was no, I was not all right. I nearly got knocked out. Knocked out by desire! Desire for forbidden dissimilar molecules ↗

— Meg Cabot

#princess #journalism

Inside the envelope with the letter was a little Princess Leia action figure USB flash drive. (they make these?) For me to store my novel on, since he was right-I never back up my computer's hard drive. The sight of it-it's Princess Leia in her Hoth outfit, my favorite of her costumes (how had he remembered?) brought tears to my eyes. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#princess #journalism