#davis pickett

[ecnmatic]

TURTLES ALL THE WAY DOWN (2024) dir. Hannah Marks.

[evilbookworm]

The Byler forehead touch I want in s5…

[gunsandshipsforhands]

“i can’t choose my thoughts like i can’t choose my name” skill issue just be trans

[de-la-bibliotheque]

I thought, lying there, that I might love him for the rest of my life. We did love each other—maybe love was never something we were in, but it was something I felt. I loved him, and I thought, maybe I will never see him again, and I'll be stuck missing him, and isn't that so terrible.

John Green, Turtles All the Way Down

[i-m-marvel-istic]

"Anybody  can look at you. It's quite rare to find someone who sees the same world you see."

-John Geen // Turtles All The Way Down

[just-twinkling]

Turtles All The Way Down

Chapter 1

At the time I first realized I might be fictional, my weekdays were spent at a publicly funded institution on the north side of Indianapolis called White River High School, where I was required to eat lunch at a particular time—between 12:37 p.m. and 1:14 p.m.—by forces so much larger than myself that I couldn’t even begin to identify them. If those forces had given me a different lunch period, or if the tablemates who helped author my fate had chosen a different topic of conversation that September day, I would’ve met a different end—or at least a different middle. But I was beginning to learn that your life is a story told about you, not one that you tell.

Of course, you pretend to be the author. You have to. You think, I now choose to go to lunch, when that monotone beep rings from on high at 12:37. But really, the bell decides. You think you’re the painter, but you’re the canvas.

-JOHN GREEN

[as-t-er]

[shadychocolate]

When observation fails to align with a truth, what do you trust—your senses or your truth? The Greeks didn't even have a word for blue.

I think about her all the time, my stomach flips when I see her. But is it love, or just something we don't have a word for?

–Turtles All the Way Down, John