#red

Boredom comes from a boring mind. ↗

— Metallica

#boredom

I rushed ahead until another girls' bathroom appeared. I pushed the door open, planning to leave Noah outside while I collected myself. But he followed me in. Two younger girls were standing at te mirror applying lip gloss. "Get out," Noah said to them, his voice laced with boredom. As if they were the ones who didn't belong in the girls' bathroom. ↗

— Michelle Hodkin

#romance #boredom

We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring. ↗

— François de La Rochefoucauld

#bores #boring #boredom

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred. ↗

— Woody Allen

#hundred #live #make #things #up

I wish I could say that racism and prejudice were only distant memories. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust…We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better. ↗

— Thurgood Marshall

#race #racism #hatred

Redheaded women buck like goats. ↗

— James Joyce

#sexuality #sexuality

Air grew heavy, damp, almost solid. I was breathing bricks. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#descriptive #khaled #scared #description

Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.' My red hair, like red flames, shall burn up the world,' said Gregory. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#red-hair #anarchy

Do you know what I did to the last guy that called me Tinkerbelle?" "Slept with him?" Darryl was silent for a second. "After that. ↗

— Dani Alexander

#gay-romance #m-m-romance #shattered-glass #gay

Life has been reduced to a series of long periods of boredom in the office punctuated by high-octane “experiences” which you can rack up on your list of things to do before you die. That’s not really living: that is slavery with the occasional circus thrown in. ↗

— Tom Hodgkinson

#life #slavery #experience