Random Book Quotes

Quotes from the random books I read. Topics include, but are not limited to: fiction, spirituality, philosophy, metaphysics, new age thought, psychology, cultural studies, feminism, and sexuality. I hope you enjoy these quotes as much as I do :)

[bookwormingparty]

[mastreworld]

[sidequestdylan]

if you live here in the states, spread this like wildfire. look up what the number is for your state’s attorney general.

[amyhyma]

PLEASE CALL! Im in Illinois so I can be of no use here.

[psych2go]

If you like interesting factoids like these, follow us @psych2go . We will also be sharing interesting psychology articles along the way.

[staff]

Here it is: Best stuff first

Extremely handy if you follow a lot of people and hate missing anything good. 

Best Stuff First moves the best stuff on your dashboard—mhm!—right up to the top. 

It’s rolling out this week on iOS and Android, and comes with this Help Center article.  

Thanks! ✌️

[le-wendigogo]

I don’t have the option to turn it off yet, but chances are good that my dash is still affected. Chances are good that y'all have been affected. Whatever you do, keep checking your settings tab for the ability to TURN THIS OFF. Because we creators are gonna suffer from this.

[le-wendigogo]

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There’s a chance that y'all might not have gotten this option yet, but i finally did. For the sake of all creators out there, check your general settings and look for this option. If you have it, TURN IT OFF. Don’t let some algorithm dictate what you see.

[le-wendigogo-reblogs]

Don’t just like this. It needs to be spread so people know. Not only will your feed be out of chronological order, but creators who aren’t hella popular are suffering lack of exposure because of this. This is the one thing i WILL pressure to reblog.

[poisonous-panda-deactivated2018]

I’ve just switched it off

[writterings]

me thinking about shakespeare normally: mercutio was gay

me thinking about shakespeare at 3 am: romeo and juliet is underrated as a story. why? because everyone treats it as a love story when they should be treating it as a commentary on how children are too afraid to come to their parents with a problem or even voice their opinions on things without fear of facing repercussions. juliet didn’t want to marry paris, some old guy she didn’t know. so OF COURSE she was going to choose romeo, some hot young thing that talked nice and looked nicer and probably made her feel special. she had had at least a conversation with the guy. but no. she can’t tell her father that she doesn’t want to marry and would rather try to get to know that nice montague boy that was chatting her up while crashing her party. but of course she can’t. both of because societal expectations and because of the whole blood feud. and then there’s romeo. we all call him an emo fuck but the fact remains that it is highly hinted that he had depression and while finding someone “to love” doesn’t automatically fix that in a person, him “loving” juliet definitely did seem to improve his mood while his parents just brushed him off. and in the end of the story, they’d both rather kill themselves then tell their parents that they’re going to be disappointing them by telling them who they “love” and that’s just fucked up. these were teenagers. and while this may have not been old billy shakes’ original message, it stands that this interpretation could benefit being taught to a lot of students and even some parents. 

[writterings]

me thinking about shakespeare at 3:30 am: also know what was fucked up? mercutio and tybalt died without even knowing what they were dying for. they literally say in the beginning of the play that no one remembers why the blood feud started. and mercutio wasn’t even an capulet or montague. this wasn’t his fight. but he died anyways, under romeo’s arm, by tybalt’s hand. sure, they were fighting because tybalt was pissed about romeo seeing juliet and shit, but mercutio didn’t know that. he thought tybalt was just starting shit just to start shit. he didn’t know what he was dying for. “a plague on both your houses” indeed. and then tybalt. fucking firey tybalt. like i said before, no one knows why the blood feud started. he essentially just died because his family hates another guy’s family probably over something like the 13th century equivalent of a sports rivalry. that’s so fucked up. while i don’t remember what their exact ages were, i’m pretty sure they were teenagers too. what the fuck.

[writterings]

me thinking about shakespeare at 3:35 am: and then benevolio. oh god benevolio. what even happened to him??? first, he watches this guy who was always a jackass to him but he’s probably known all his life get killed, then his (boy)friend dies all because of something his cousin does, and then his cousin is exiled/flees before he’s exiled. he’s then all alone for like the rest of the play, until he assuredly walks into the mausoleum at the end of the play and sees his cousin dead on the ground with some girl he’s maybe seen twice in his life dead on top of him. what the fuck. what the actual fuck. poor benevolio just lost his two best friends and now he’s all alone. and you know they never even say if he’s in the play for the rest of the thing. you just assume he is. for all we know he could’ve skipped town, or killed himself as well, or died in a duel, or anything. i always headcanoned him as the youngest of the group. and like, that just makes it worse. poor benevolio, the guy that was left all alone at the end of the play with all his friends and acquaintances dead. “for never was a story of more woe / than that of juliet and her romeo”???? bullshit. for never was a story of more woe than that of our poor fucking benevolio. 

[itsagifnotagif]

me thinking about Shakespeare at anytime: There is a character in Midsummer Night’s Dream called Bottom

yknow if romeo had just Cried on juliets corpse for a couple hours instead of drinking poison Right Then they would have been Fine

[persephonesidekick]

The moral of the story is: always take time to cry for a few hours before making important decisions.

[runecestershire]

[runecestershire]

So I’m more or less being facetious here, but this is actually a thing.

Hamlet is genre savvy. Hamlet knows how Tragedies work, and he’s not going to rush in and get stabby without making absolutely certain he’s got all the facts.

Except once he thinks he has all the facts – once he’s certain that it really is the ghost of his father and Claudius really did kill him, he rushes in and stabs the wrong guy, which starts a domino line of deaths and gets Laertes embroiled in his own revenge tragedy and ultimately results in the deaths of nearly every character other than Horatio.

That’s the irony and the tragedy of the story. Hamlet knows his tropes and actively tries to avoid them, and the tropes get him anyway. It’s inevitable, the tropes are hungry.

[motherfuckingshakespeare]

I want a sticker that says the tropes are hungry so I can put it on my laptop

[daimonie]

i met a scholar once who said that tragedies aren’t about a silly “flaw” or anything, it’s about having a hero who’s just in the wrong goddamn story

if hamlet swapped places with othello he wouldn’t be duped by any of iago’s shit, he’d sit down & have a good think & actually examine the facts before taking action. meanwhile in denmark, othello would have killed claudius before act 2 could even start. but instead nope, they’re both in situations where their greatest strengths are totally useless and now we’ve got all these bodies to bury.

[whopooh]

The tropes are hungry and the hero is in the wrong goddamn story.

I love this post.

[haunted-hideaway]

Feels

[vr-trakowski]

I believe the artist is Katy Doughty.  

[zombolouge]

I want “The tropes are hungry and the hero is in the wrong damn story” tattooed somewhere on my person

[cat-cosplay]

“You can’t be so stupid as to think this will be easy.” ~ Captain Pawsma

[waronidiocy]

If Dr. Seuss Books Were Titled According to Their Subtexts

my theatre teacher has all of these on a wall in his classroom.

[8xns]

If you think about it in the shower, you’re not over it

[unclebeanbag]

I’m apparently not over the burning of the library at Alexandria

[foxyamazingoperates-deactivated]

Is anyone truly over it?

[unclebeanbag]

They shouldn’t be

[sigilathenaeum]

“I am a good actor/actress” sigil

Sigil requests are closed.

[striders]

today on “weirdly specific but extremely relatable goodwill finds”

[stringerbells-deactivated202105]

“How are your grades?”

“What are you majoring in?”

“Have you got a girlfriend?”

“What do you want to do when you graduate?”

[misscupcakemonster]

Freya has my heart.

[hawkgirls-deactivated20260403]

jean valjean: i’m on the run so i shouldn’t attract attention

also jean valjean: *becomes mayor of a town*

[cynema]

This is the best one yet

[amicitonia-deactivated20190106]

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[pattiluponeisagoddess]

I love her sm tbh.

[non-binary-laurie-strode]

She did that!!!!!!!

[jdvancefreefeetpics]

if she wasn’t an icon already…

[bookappreciation]

"Love peels back the veil, the Big Illusion, the lie that we are expendable, interchangeable. Love is grace, shed by the divine onto the ordinary world. And in the act of loving, of cherishing, we become real."

from "City of Refuge (The Fifth Sacred Thing Book 3)" by Starhawk, Jessica Perlstein