This is the Twilight Zone

It was, in part, a longing – common enough among the inventors of heroes – to be someone else; to be more than the result of two hundred regimens and scenarios and self-improvement campaigns that always ran afoul of his perennial inability to locate an actual self to be improved

— Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

They lay there for a few seconds, in the dark, in the future, listening to the fabulous clockwork of their hearts and lungs, and loving each other

— Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place.

— Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

Protect your friends. You only have one hometown. If you think you’ve had a bad date, remember, it can always get worse. And it’s okay to eat breakfast for dinner.

— Amy Poehler in New York Magazine on what she’s learned from Leslie Knope (via wheezy)

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‎’Slut’ is attacking women for their right to say yes. ‘Friend Zone’ is attacking women for their right to say no.

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And “bitch” is attacking women for their right to call you on it.

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I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.

— John Green (via natashakills)

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Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.

— Mitch Albom (via cybergirlfriend)

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In Greek, “nostalgia” literally means “the pain from an old wound”. It’s a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine. It goes backwards and forwards, it takes us to a place where we ache to go again.

— Don Draper (via the-vintage-hippie)

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Make sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do.

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J.D.Salinger (via loveyourchaos)

oh is that what you did with your child brides?

(just kidding i still love you)

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Above all, be the heroine of your life, not the victim.

— Nora Ephron (via thatkindofwoman)

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If a writer falls in love with you, you can never die.

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We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

— Ernest Hemingway (via castlekeys)

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If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel— as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them— wherever you go.

— Anthony Bourdain (via antique-eyes)

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I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It’s not the best way to live. But it’s the way I am.

— Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex (via thatquote)

Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out, and for no other reason.

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J.D. Salinger, ‘Seymour: an Introduction’ (via catchercarousel)

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