Less than a month, then a week of this
I wish I didn’t hate my job so much
My life would be pretty spiffing otherwise. Enough money to survive, my own place, friends, and the most astoundingly perfect boy I have no right to be able to call mine.
I’m at war with my management
Let’s fuck shit up
It’s stupid how quickly you get used to sharing your bed with someone. He stays four to five nights a week, but the couple nights I spend alone it’s hard to fall asleep.
It’s a day of rather dapper demonstration outside the Abercrombie & Fitch store on Burlington Gardens. Protesters are objecting to the company’s plans to open a children’s clothing store on Savile Row in London. They claim the chain store’s presence would signal the demise of a street dedicated to the bespoke tailoring trade Photograph: Matthew Lloyd/Getty Images
"Well, I’ve always been unpopular in school and it doesn’t bother me, but now I’ve discovered the reason. It’s an impossible kind of reason. They dislike me, not because I do things badly, but because I do them well. They dislike me because I’ve always had the best grades in class. I don’t even have to study. I always get A’s. Do you suppose I should try to get D’s for a change and become the popular girl?"
— Dagny Taggart, Atlas Shrugged. (via nihilnoetia) (via booklover) (via libraryland, nathanielstuart)
"All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair."
— Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
(Source: libraryland)
"There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense."
— Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice (via libraryland)
"Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving."
— Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky (via girlwithoutwings)
(Source: quote-book)
"I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes."
— Ferdinand von Schrubentaufft
(Source: salveo, via quote-book)
"Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a pedestal or down on your knees, it’s all a male fantasy: that you’re strong enough to take what they dish out, or else too weak to do anything about it. Even pretending you aren’t catering to male fantasies is a male fantasy: pretending you’re unseen, pretending you have a life of your own, that you can wash your feet and comb your hair unconscious of the ever-present watcher peering through the keyhole, peering through the keyhole in your own head, if nowhere else. You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur."
— Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride (via helplesslyamazed)
(Source: quote-book)
"I love badly. That is, too little or too much. I throw myself over an unsuitable cliff, only to reel back in horror from a simple view out the window."
— Jeanette Winterson, Gut Symmetries (via helplesslyamazed)
(Source: quote-book)
