Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston S. Churchill.
Hurting is just as much a part of life as joy, maybe even more important. Falling down teaches you how to stand up.
I’m not scary, I’m ridiculous.” I.
Being quiet can be louder than shouting.’” I.
Why is that weird? Honestly it was kind of nice. We were both adulting like adult adults who behaved like adults.
I gagged instinctively, covering my mouth with my hand, but I also laughed. Through my fingers I mumbled, “It’s like there’s a party going on in my mouth, and everyone is throwing up.
You’re the girl that guys like us, if we’re smart and if we’re lucky that is, you’re the girl we marry. You’re the marriage girl.
The first time I heard him speak, I was sunk; his voice made my stomach do a skydive to my toes without a parachute. His voice reminded me of jazz and the bedroom and a strip tease: melodic, deep, soothing, slightly sandpapery, but with an irreverent, careless quality. I daydreamed about him reading me a book, the newspaper, a greeting card, an eviction notice – anything.
Greg ceased stomping around the room turned toward the open door, as though just noticing we had company. Both Dara and Hivan’s eyes widened and, in unison, the couple took a step back. Greg charged toward them, chasing them out of the room while continuing to shout-recite, “Oh, that deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous palace. Shame. Shame on thee!” And with that, he slammed the door in both their faces.
I didn’t hear the rest of Steven’s musings. I was in the Matrix and I’d just unwittingly taken the red pill.
Not everyone is capable of fighting the great fights. Not everyone is brave and strong and powerful. Let people have their causes. Allow them their victories, when victories can be had, without begrudging the wrongs that they right. Attending to injustice, no matter how small, is always a worthy cause.” His.
You’re it, Jessica James. And that’s the truth. Not racing or going fast. Not fixing up old cars. I want to spend my life with you. And maybe that makes me wrong in the head and unhealthy, or old-fashioned, but when I think of my future and what I want, all I see is you.
I’ve come to understand clothes matter to most people because society decrees how a person is ‘packaged’ reflects the internal values, abilities, and personality of that person. This packaging is often called ‘personal expression.’ Since deciphering this, I’ve resented the concept of personal expression.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” – Friedrich Nietzsche.
Kummerspeck, of course, being the German word for emotional weight gain; literally translated, it means grief bacon.
I slept horribly. But, no matter. That was the thing about sleep, there would always be more time to practice.
When I finished my tale of both woe and whoa...
But love is the greatest adventure, where you risk the most for the greatest reward.
We’re not pumpkins. We’re stunning autumn gourds.
She’s your 1968 Plymouth Barracuda. Everyone knows that, well... everyone that matters.