You're Ugly and You're Dumb, I Promise.

"It’s the ripe fruit that gets eaten. I say the truth is I don’t work at things because then I get them."

- Catie Rosemurgy, excerpt from Miss Peach: The College Years (via holdonmagnolia)

(Source: theoryoflostthings)

"Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads. And there are millions of teens who read because they are sad and lonely and enraged. They read because they live in an often-terrible world. They read because they believe despite the callow protestations of certain adults that books-especially the dark and dangerous ones-will save them."

- Sherman Alexie (via booksandnerds)

(via -theperfectmistake)

"once someone told me they were tired of managing me and my emotions one man said that i humiliate myself publicly and need self respect another man said i was morbid because of my taste in movies one man tells me he loves me and another says he did love me and always will but not as much as her all i can think of is that i want you all to be quiet very quiet quiet as death"

- Kendra Grant Malone, excerpt from quiet as death (via holdonmagnolia)

(Source: theoryoflostthings)

"I hope the weather holds but you don’t need the sun to make you shine. These islands towns don’t care for city folk, but I think we can starve the city from our minds. I know we won’t want for much; it’s just you and me and a bed and the shoreline.” - Minus the Bear"