FUCK YEAH LITERATURE

Basically, literature is the best fucking thing that ever happened to anything, and if you don't like books, then what the actual fuck are you doing on this blog? (seriously. I don't get it.)

Wherever you will go,
I will let you down,
But this lullaby goes on.

Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby

Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.

Henry Miller, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

(Source: bethanyxwhite)

I know that’s what people say— you’ll get over it. I’d say it, too. But I know it’s not true. Oh, youll be happy again, never fear. But you won’t forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him.

Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me.

Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.

Tina Fey, Bossypants

(via baby-sin)

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

Isaac Asimov, Foundation

I hate all those flirty-birty games that women make up. Life’s too short. If you ever find a man you love, don’t waste time hanging your head and simpering. Go right up to him and say, ‘I love you. How about getting married?

Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

The trouble is, sometimes words are like arrows. Once you shoot them, there’s no going back.

Jess Rothenberg, The Catastrophic History of You and Me