#paper

People care about what newspapers tell them to care about. ↗

— Delia Parr

#love

She loves mysteries that she became one. ↗

— John Green

#green #john #mystery #paper #town

I never read the paper myself. Why bother? It's the same old shit day in and day out, dictators beating the ching-chong out of people weaker than they are, men in uniforms beating the ching-chong out of soccer balls or footballs, politicians kissing babies and kissing ass. ↗

— Stephen King

#politics #men

It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking. ↗

— Ron Paul

#federal-reserve #fiat #fiat-money #paper-money #war

Jessamine recoiled from the paper as if it were a snake. "A lady does not read the newspaper. The society pages, perhaps, or the theater news. Not this filth." "But you are not a lady, Jessamine---," Charlotte began. "Dear me," said Will. "Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jessamine-lovelace #journalism #newspapers #will-herondale #society

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person. ↗

— John Green

#person

The fundamental mistake I had always made - and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make - was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl. ↗

— John Green

#paper-towns #miracles

This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#taste #wallpaper #wild

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#thoughtlessness #information

And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross and separate and then come back together. ↗

— John Green

#paper #towns #pleasure