"The World Is Not A Wish-Granting Factory."

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[franstar]

She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowell

Goddamnit.

(via thatwellspokentoken)

[vihola]

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.

John Green, The Fault In Our Stars (via inkheartsilence)

[bookmania]

My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.

Charles Dickens, David Copperfield (via bookmania)

[austentatious]

I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

The Great Gatsby | F. Scott Fitzgerald  (via ahundredwordsforsnow)

[lustful-breathing-blog]

“That I didn’t just feel depressed - instead, it was like the depression was the core of me, of every part of me, from my mind to my bones?”

Will Grayson, Will Grayson- John Green  (via p-r-e-t-z-e-l-s)

[r-ch-el]

[mytumblofjumbl]

I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I’m in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we’re all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we’ll ever have, and I am in love with you.

John Green.

I could read this over and over and over. And sigh, I must be in the business.

(via truthofparadox)

[coypatalagsa-deactivated2014110]

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (via myquotelibrary)

[favoritelittlelyrics]

[soft-targets]

Lyrics from Get Lonely by The Mountain Goats

[awishgrantingfactory-blog]

"What great malice there could be in allowing something to live."

The Book Thief  by Markus Zusak

[paperbackwords]

We did a few things worth remembering, and I wish for someone to remember them.

John Green (via concepten)

[aseaofquotes]

Jamie Ford, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet

[favoritelittlelyrics]

Taylor Swift, “Innocent”

[aseaofquotes]

Andre Dubus, “A Father’s Story” 

Submitted by dontcallmesmall.

[mellifluousbookshelf]

“There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar.”

[killergnome69-deactivated201209]

When things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it’s because a little piece gets lost - the two remaining ends couldn’t fit together even if they wanted to. the whole shape has changed

John Green (via killergnome69)