#th

These teenager looks aren't going to last forever, and that there are much better foundation to build a life upon than how attractive you are. ↗

— David Levithan

#every-day #life

Sometimes things happen. Things happen even when you don't intend them to happen. Maybe at the beginning you had good intentions, or no intentions, or intentions you thought were harmless, but before you knew it things got out of control. ...Sometimes things take on a life of their own. You become powerless. There is nothing you can do to stop certain things from happening. ↗

— Dana Reinhardt

#life #pain #truth #life

Who are we without our memories? ↗

— Marta Acosta

#la-vie #life #memories #truth #life

If there's anything worse than a woman living alone, it's a woman saying she likes it. ↗

— Thelma Ritter

#anything #likes #living #living alone #saying

Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're jaded cunts, in a scene we hate, a city we hate, pretending that we're at the center of the universe, trashing ourselves with crap drugs to stave off the feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, aware that all we're doing is feeding that paranoia and disenchantment, yet somehow we're too apathetic to stop. Cause, sadly, there's nothing else of interest to stop for. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#drugs #life

If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich ↗

— Charles Wagner

#wealth #life

The life we’re given is on a thread, so wear it well. ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#life #philosophical #poetry #poets #wisdom

The concept of randomness and coincidence will be obsolete when people can finally define a formulation of patterned interaction between all things within the universe. ↗

— Toba Beta

#define #formulation #interaction #life #mystery

Is Lisa going to the prom?' I shelved my worries for the moment. 'I don't know, Mom. We don't talk about the You-Know-What. We made a pact.' You could go together, if you didn't want to mess with dates and things.' I don't want to mess with the prom at all, Mom.' She ignored me, placidly eating popcorn, piece by piece.'Some girls in my high school class did that and had a wonderful time. They weren't lesbians or anything. Not that it would matter if they were.' That's nice, Mom. I'm glad you're so open-minded.' I grabbed my Coke and the popcorn bowl and headed for the stairs, because I could go my whole life without ever hearing my mother talk about lesbians again. Maybe you could take Justin to the prom,' she called after me, laughter in her voice. 'He is such a hottie.' Shoot me now. ↗

— Rosemary Clement-Moore

#mothers #prom #dating

Sometimes silence means more than words filled with pity and regret. He squeezes my hand, and I know that is his way of saying that I’m not alone. That even though he doesn’t know what it feels like to be me, because I hurt, he hurts. For the first time in my life, I find a great deal of comfort knowing that I don’t have to carry this burden alone anymore. ↗

— J.B. McGee

#forgiven #gabby-gerhart #gabriella-gerhard #this-series #life