#ss

ll I can think about, every day, every waking minute since they drew Prim's name at the reaping, is how afraid I am. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#katniss-and-gale #prim #reaping #rebellion #rebellion

Our purest form of joy comes when people we envy get hurt. That most genuine form of joy. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#joy #envy

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#necessity #passion #vocation #obedience

wanting what you could not have led to misery and madness ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-prince #infernal-devices #madness #misery #tessa-gray

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. ↗

— Bill Vaughan

#citizen #cross #democracy #election #fight

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes ↗

— Robert Jordan

#war #fool

Eve: She told me last! Shane: Boyfriend! Michael: Landlord! Eve: Crap. Right. Next time you sell your soul to the devil, I get first contact! ↗

— Rachel Caine

#eve-rosser #michael-glass #morganville-vampires #devil

Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#devil

The American appetite for loneliness impressed me, and there was something about this solitude that freed conversation. One night at a bar, I met a man, and within five minutes he explained that he had just been released from prison. Another drinker told me that his wife had passed away, and he had recently suffered a heart attack, and now he hoped that he would die within the year. I learned that there's no reliable small talk in America; at any moment a conversation can become personal. ↗

— Peter Hessler

#conversation #intimacy #loneliness #solitude #talk

No I am not okay. I've just been pulled out of play tryouts where I had to be the first to audition and everyone's trying out for the same parts, I just had a very bizarre conversation with the school secretary, Megan may be throwing up her cucumber sandwiches, I've broken five of the seven deadly sins in as many hours, a demon may be inside a girl in my world religions class, Grant Brawner called me by name, my license photo looks like a dead fish, I have to drive my friends all over town in two hours when I've never even driven without Dad before, none of my birthday wishes have come true yet, and now you're here with muffins like I'm in second grade? So, no, I am not ok. ↗

— Wendy Mass

#drama #driving #license #muffins #wendy-mass