March 2012
February 2012
“My life story is the story of everyone I’ve ever met.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
—Isaac Asimov (via larmoyante)
“It’s just that I don’t want to be somebody’s crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don’t want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it too.”
—Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.”
—Douglass Everett (via nagging)
“The more you love someone, he came to think, the harder it is to tell them. It surprised him that strangers didn’t stop each other on the street to say I love you.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
“It takes a minute to say hello and forever to say goodbye.”
—Anurag Gupta
“People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
—Abraham Lincoln
“I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others - The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated
