Let your art carry you away from this tragic past, my darling. You deserve to be free.
“Loving me isn’t easy, I have sharp edges, I have missing parts.”
— Donte Collins
I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I wanted. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.
Jonathan Franzen, Freedom (via thoughtkick)
Jonathan Franzen, Freedom (via thoughtkick)
my biology professor has such a chaotic energy about him, last week i went to his office hours and somehow we ended up on the topic of gay marriage:
he said that when he lived in texas they changed the law to define marriage as “between a man and a woman in a house of religious worship with the intention to have children” so he filed his taxes as single and when they called him up like “you filed married last year” he was like “you changed the law, i was married by a judge in a courthouse and i have no intention of having kids” and they told him “you know who that law was for” and i guess he hung up on them and did not, in fact, pay taxes as a married man that year
Chaotic good
NO! This is Lawful Good! He is following the LAW! Chaotic doesn't just mean cheeky!
this is like how Sweden stopped classifying homosexuality as an illness because people started a campaign of calling in gay to work
malicious compliance is one of the best tools in the arsenal of civil rights activism
when hayao miyazaki said that true love was two people inspiring each other to live…recognizing just how hard living is, putting one foot in front of the other every day, how easy it is to lose our passion for it…… that’s the real shit
The Good Place as John Mulaney: Kid Gorgeous Quotes
Eleanor: “Fourteen years ago, I smoked cocaine the night before my college graduation. Now I’m afraid to get a flu shot. People change.”
Chidi: "College was like a four-year game show called Do My Friends Hate Me or Do I Just Need to Go to Sleep? But instead of winning money, you lose $120,000.”
Tahani: "i am six feet tall. i lower myself, i go, "hi. knock, knock”… i say “knock, knock” out loud….“
Jason: "i thought i would be dead in a trunk with my hand hanging out of the taillight by now”
Janet: “I don’t know what my body is for, other than just taking my head from room to room.”
Michael: “brush your teeth and drink orange juice. that’s life”
Mary Oliver, from Worm Moon in “Twelve Moons”
Despite how open, peaceful, and loving you attempt to be, people can only meet you as deeply as they’ve met themselves.
Matt Kahn (via thoughtkick)
Matt Kahn (via thoughtkick)
He asked me when I fell in love with him and I knew it sounded dramatic to say the moment I saw him, so I told him this story of my grandma who had Alzheimer's- she forgot her name and the words for fruit and food, she forgot her address and how to use the washroom, all her life lost to the disease. The only thing she remembered was her son's name and when that began to fade, the one thing she always remembered was that she loved him, even in illness, even in insanity. She saw this 6 foot 2 man with a scrubby beard and she didn't know him but she said she trusted him, she asked him to hold her hand when she died. When does memory end and love begin? All I know is- she loved him before she remembered him.
-Ritika Jyala, excerpt from The world is a sphere of ice and our hands are made of fire

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