“Try to be a filter, not a sponge.”

She asked me very long questions that were really just her ideas with a question mark put at the end. The only thing I could say was either “yes” or “no.”

- Perks of Being a Wallflower

"I am strong because I've been weak. I am fearless because I've been afraid. I am wise because I've been foolish.”

 

Having perfected our disguise, we spend our lives searching for someone we don’t fool.

- Robert Brault

“There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.”

― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

apt. for every time i felt something i could not explain

What happens when the shining adoration dulls?

“I told him to lie

with my eyes.”

- Holden Ford, Mindhunter

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change ( Read more... )

Hath not a Jew hands, organs,
dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with
the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
to the same diseases, healed by the same means,
warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as
a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison
us, do we not die?
-  ( Read more... )