it’s sad, really. people rust. they evaporate. they slowly erase. and we wonder what happened. was it our fault or theirs? did we neglect the friendship or did they no longer need what we had to give? the boys, the girls. one day their names will begin with, “you know, whats her name.” it’s tough when you realize that the nature of relationships is constantly evolving, despite every attempt you make to make it last. to live in love. to freeze people in memory. the rest of my life will be a continuous series of beginnings. of handshakes and text avoidance. someone freeze me.— christopher gutierrez

“ You think abortion is wrong? Don’t have one. I think killing people is wrong, so I’m not in the army. My tax dollars still go to fund it, though (in fact about 21 cents of each of my tax dollars). My tax dollars also go to keep prisoners on death row even though I think the death penalty is morally wrong. My tax dollars fund Guantanamo and Bagram, extraordinary rendition, and Jim DeMint’s salary, all of which I find disgusting. So why is abortion, a legal medical procedure, so remarkably different that we have to go overboard making sure tax dollars don’t fund it? ” -Sarah Jaffe

I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.
-KATY PERRY

there are no safe choices. only other choices.
-LIBBA BRAY

"we all die. the goal isn't to live forever,
it is to create something that will"

When it comes to family we’re all still children at heart.
No matter how old we get, we always need a place to call home.
Because without the people you love most,
you can’t help but feel all alone in the world
-gossipgirl

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions?
Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves
there is no hope of finding ourselves. — Henry Miller

it's crazy, right? to love someone who's hurt you?
it's crazier to think that someone who hurts you loves you.
 -jodi picoult.

what a treacherous thing to believe
that a person is more than a person
-JOHN GREEN

I was paying attention even when I told myself I wasn't.
If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life,
it's been the bass line,
so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.

"…everything has a past. Everything – a person, an object, a word, everything.
If you don’t know the past, you can’t understand the present
and plan properly for the future." — Chaim Potok

i just don't know if i want to do it anymore-
get close to someone so they can leave again
-one tree hill

what do i wear in bed?
why, chanel No.5, of course
-marilyn monroe

you're not just a phase.

if you want something, don't wish for it.
life is too short to wait -stephen hines

“Which is the most universal human characteristic,
fear or laziness?”-Waking Life

Girls do not dress for boys.  They dress for themselves,
and of course, eachother.  If girls dressed for boys,
they'd just walk around naked at all times- BETSEY JOHNSON

Now I do as I please and lie through my teeth
Someone might get hurt, but it won’t be me

Don't feel stupid if you do not like
what everyone else pretends to love
-patrick mimran

“Everyone has the heartbreak that shapes them in a way
that they could never go back to the innocence
that they had before.” — Zooey Deschanel

If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.
That's the single most important thing you can do.
It's staggering when you think about it.
Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot:
ecology, famine, cruelty- Paul McCarthy

I swear, by my life and my love of it,
that I will never live for the sake of another man,
nor ask another man to live for mine. [Ayn Rand]

"The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing
is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away."
— Barbara Kingsolver

don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you
figure out what you have to say. it's the one and only thing
you have to offer-Barbara Kingslver

I'm saying that I'm a moody, insecure, narrow-minded, jealous,
borderline homicidal bitch, and I want you to promise me
that you're okay with that, because it's who I am,
and you're what I need.— Jeaniene Frost

 
"I think I love him, but I also think that you can love people
who aren't good for you." — Augusten Burroughs (Dry: A Memoir)

you deserve to need me, not to have me.-running with scissors

sometimes the right thing feels all wrong
until it's over and done with-alice hoffman

"What every girl dreams of when she's dumped is - that the guy
will someday feel regrest and come back and tell her all about it.
And the beauty of it is you have no regrets whatsoever."
— Emily Giffin

"Nothing is more irritating than not being invited to a party
you wouldn’t be seen dead at."~ William E Bill Vaughan