#ran

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly. ↗

— Matthew Quick

#feelings-of-weakness #happiness #life #literature #movie

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

— John Green

#blending-in #life

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#intellectual #political #willful-ignorance #life

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

— Amanda Hocking

#life #life

Life is a book waiting to happen. ↗

— Sloan McBride

#romance #life

Why had my life suddenly become a Nancy Drew mystery from hell? ↗

— Rachel Hawkins

#ya #ya-paranormal #life

Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering. ↗