#par

I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#sal-paradise #nothing

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was... ...Parents aren't the people you come from. They're the people you want to be, when you grow up. I sat between my mother and my father, watching strangers on TV carry in Shaker rockers and dusty paintings and ancient beer tankards and cranberry glass dishes; people and their hidden treasures, who had to be told by experts that they'd taken something incredibly precious for granted. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#parenting

It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#giving-in #time

I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched. ↗

— Bryan Adams

#being #entered #far-fetched #hollywood #i

Zo, I'm not a damn pussy!' Erik, looking very tall and full-grown, kick-your-butt vampyre-like, snorted sarcastically and then said, 'No, you're a damn human. Wait, that does make you a pussy! ↗

— P.C. Cast

#paranormal

I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941. ↗

— Jack Adams

#into #june #navy #parents #permission

He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - to me they were the best poets those two writing in those days but it wasn't very encouraging because, well, they weren't getting far were they? ↗

— Robert Adamson

#best #certainly #confused #days #encouraging

For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver. ↗

— George Ade

#life #parlor #saver #use #vague

I don't own everything, I do have a partner. ↗

— Mickey Gilley

#i #i do #own #partner

When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through. ↗

— Mickey Gilley

#everything #finds #guy #market #name