#pear

The thing about chameleoning your way through life is that it gets to where nothing is real. ↗

— John Green

#blending-in #life

Being liked for the way you looked is worse than not being liked at all. ↗

— Amanda Hocking

#life #life

Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#satire #shakespeare #humor

You're fun to look at," decided Galinda. Boq's face fell. "Fun?" he said. I'd give a lot to achieve fun," Elphaba said. "The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion- ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#ugly #life

The very stone one kicks with one's boot will outlast Shakespeare. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#shakespeare #life

I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#girls #pressure #relateable #life

You can't just skip the boring parts." "Of course I can skip the boring parts." "How do you know they're boring if you don't read them?" "I can tell." "Then you can't say you've read the whole play." "I think I can live a happy life, Meryl Lee, even if I don't read the boring parts of The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark." "Who knows?" she said. "Maybe you can't. ↗

— Gary D. Schmidt

#life #philosophy #reading #shakespeare #life

I'm not going to disappear. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#going #i

For 'tis your thoughts that now must deck our kings, Carry them here and there; jumping o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hour-glass: for the which supply, Admit me Chorus to this history; Who prologue-like your humble patience pray, Gently to hear, kindly to judge, our play. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#william-shakespeare #life

What do you do when the alienating silence deafens your 'bootless cries'? ↗

— Solange nicole

#poetry-life #shakespeare #solange #life