“I decided to masturbate with shampoo instead of conditioner today. Because yolo. Things Jesus never said.”
― Dave Matthes, quote from Sleepeth Not, the Bastard
“There just isn’t enough cock in this world to be caught suckin’ and be called anything but a slut for life. The cynic in me would call it a bad habit, but that’d make me a whore in denial and if there’s one thing I am, it’s an honest bitch. Then again, you don’t get famous for being daddy’s little angel, but you can easily fall into the Infamy Bracket by preaching a made-up Bible quote now and again. They say I’m shallow, but I’ve made a living out off diving off the deep end.”
― Dave Matthes, quote from Sleepeth Not, the Bastard
“She once told me of a night that fumed with escapes and was filled with bedsides reeking of ecstasy; she told me the stars cast not judgments, but blessings, knowing full well the disastrous outcomes of the deeds they cradled with the strings of their young hearts. She’d inhaled the night itself, those around her doing the same, and so all become one. No disharmony. No discordance. Nothing to shatter the cause; nothing to unearth the beauty. So as we together ascended that front porch, allowing the glow behind the blown-out windows and the odious steams plunder us from through the cracks...time forgot to distill us, and our steps became as silver as glass. I could no longer deny the boiling words of my blood: tonight would be the beginning of a very long road indeed.”
― Dave Matthes, quote from Sleepeth Not, the Bastard
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“The pigs were pushing their noses through the slats in the truck bed, which made Langston so unaccountably sad she thought she would have to sit down on the sidewalk. How is it possible, she thought, that a person can drive a thinking, feeling, animal to slaughter and not become less than an animal himself? And what were the pigs searching for, after all, but air and freedom?”
― Haven Kimmel, quote from The Solace of Leaving Early
“Najniebezpieczniejszą, choć całkiem oddzielną sprawą, przed którą chciał mnie przestrzec najbardziej, a która posłała w opary szaleństwa całe kompanie młodych biedaczyn, było czytanie książek. Ten niedobry zwyczaj nasila się ostatnimi czasy, stąd więc niewypowiedziana wdzięczność ojca, że nie wykazałem do tej pory takich tendencji. Szpitale psychiatryczne są przepełnione ludźmi, którzy czytają zbyt dużo. Kiedyś byli - tak jak my - silni fizycznie, otwarci, zadowoleni i zrównoważeni. Potem zaczęli czytać. Najczęściej przez przypadek. Jakieś przeziębienie, wymagające kilku dni leżenia w łóżku. Ładna okładka wzbudzająca ciekawość. I nagle rodzi się zły nawyk. Pierwsza książka prowadzi do następnej. I następnej, i jeszcze jednej, ogniwa w łańcuchu, który wiedzie prosto w dół, w wieczny mrok choroby psychicznej. Po prostu nie można przestać. To gorsze niż narkotyk.”
― Mikael Niemi, quote from Popular Music from Vittula
“Днес на тази планета има 120 милиона деца в училищна възраст, които са лишени от образование поради полова дискриминация, бедност, експлоатация, религиозен екстремизъм и правителствена корупция.
Надявам се и се моля през следващото десетилетие да успеем да проправим път на образованието навсякъде и да осигурим обучение на всички тези деца, две трети от които са момичета. Нищо не би ме направило по-щастлив, ако книгата „Училища от камък” помогне за постигането на тази цел.”
― Greg Mortenson, quote from Stones Into Schools: Promoting Peace With Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan
“Mind your business" had been the motto of her childhood. But now that seemed like a failing in a friend.”
― Anita Diamant, quote from Good Harbor
“We live many lives, Jane, but very rarely do we ever come across the same soul twice.”
― Abra Ebner, quote from Book of Love
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