#bookishly fascinated

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Let's end by pointing out all the positive ways you can scare yourself and feel alive. You can tell someone you love them first. You can try to speak only the truth for a whole week. You can jump out of an airplane or spend Christmas Day all by your lonesome. You can help people who need help and fight real bad guys. You can dance fast or take an improv class or do one of those Ironman things. Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul. Violence and desperation are brutal things to search out. Why search out the horror? It's around us in real ways every day.

Amy Poehler, Yes Please

[theatreshoppe]

Because what else are we going to do? Say no? Say no to an opportunity that may be slightly out of our comfort zone? Quiet our voice because we are worried it is not perfect?

Amy Poehler, Yes Please

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One of the things I have learned about me while writing about me is that I am really onto myself. I have got Amy Poehler's number, I'll tell you. I also learned that writing topless tends to relax me. Go figure. Life is a mystery.

Amy Poehler, Yes Please

[theatreshoppe]

I'm going to tell you something important. Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when they were your age. The truth is, there aren't any grown-ups. Not one, in the whole wide world.

Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

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She was the storm, she was the lightening, she was the adult world with all its power and all its secrets and all its foolish casual cruelty.

Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

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Childhood memories are sometimes covered and obscured beneath the things that come later, like childhood toys forgotten at the bottom of a crammed adult closet, but they are never lost for good.

Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

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Harry Potter Secret Book #8

My favourite alternate title for Mindy Kaling's book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me (And Other Concerns)

[theatreshoppe]

Let us put it another way: the lack of curiosity is the Dementor that sucks all hope, joy, possibility and beauty out of the world. The dull torpid acedia that does not care to find out, that has no hunger and thirst for input, understanding and connection will desertify the human landscape and land our descendants squarely in the soup.

Stephen Fry, forethought to 'The Second Book of General Ignorance'