“ah, life—
the thing
that happens
to us
while we’re off
somewhere else
blowing on
dandelions
& wishing
ourselves into
the pages of
our favorite
fairy tales.”
― quote from The Princess Saves Herself in this One
“repeat after me:
you owe
no one
your forgiveness.
- except maybe yourself.”
― quote from The Princess Saves Herself in this One
“silence has always been my loudest scream.”
― quote from The Princess Saves Herself in this One
“once upon a time, the princess rose from the ashes her dragon lovers made of her & crowned herself the mother-fucking queen of herself. - how’s that for a happily ever after?”
― quote from The Princess Saves Herself in this One
“i’m not scared
of the monsters
hidden underneath
my bed.
i’m much more scared
of the boys
with messy brown hair,
sleepy eyes,
& mouths
that only know
how to form
half-truths.”
― quote from The Princess Saves Herself in this One
“the only thing
required
to be
a woman
is to
identify
as one.
- period, end of story.”
― quote from The Princess Saves Herself in this One
“fiction:
the ocean
i dive
headfirst
into
when i
can
no longer
breathe
in
reality.
- a mermaid escapist II.”
― quote from The Princess Saves Herself in this One
“the princess locked herself away in the highest tower, hoping a knight in shining armor would come to her rescue. - i didn’t realize i could be my own knight.”
― quote from The Princess Saves Herself in this One
“that is what abuse is: knowing you are going to get salt but still hoping for sugar for nineteen years. -”
― quote from The Princess Saves Herself in this One
“sticks & stones never broke my bones, but words made me starve myself until you could see all of them. -”
― quote from The Princess Saves Herself in this One
“i’m pretty sure you have s t a r d u s t running through those v e i n s. - women are some kind of magic.”
― quote from The Princess Saves Herself in this One
“if i ever have a daughter, the first thing i will teach her to love will be the word “no” & i will not let her feel guilty for using it. - “no” is short for “fuck off.” ”
― quote from The Princess Saves Herself in this One
“he
opened me up
like a book
& poured the
poetry
back into
me.
-my personal pen and paper”
― quote from The Princess Saves Herself in this One
“raid your library. read everything you can get your hands on & then some. go on, collect words & polish them up until they shine like starlight in your palm. make words your finest weapons— a gold-hilted sword to cut your enemies d o w n. - a survival plan of sorts.”
― quote from The Princess Saves Herself in this One
“the love
some girls
have for
other girls
is
so gentle
& so soft
& so fucking
beautiful,
&
these girls
deserve
to have
better stories
than the ones
where they
are murdered
because they love
with too much
of their
hearts.
-love is never a weakness.”
― quote from The Princess Saves Herself in this One
“if you
don't want to
end up in
someone else's
poem,
then maybe
you should
start
treating
people
better
for
a
change.
- an unapologetic poet.”
― quote from The Princess Saves Herself in this One
“all of the oceans
& galaxies
did not
conspire together to
create me
just so i could
reproduce for
you.
-Startling Fact #1”
― quote from The Princess Saves Herself in this One
“it is strange
how
sisters
can
be
saviors
or
strangers
&
sometimes
a bit of both.”
― quote from The Princess Saves Herself in this One
“when I die, do not waste a minute mouring me. I may go, but I will leave behind all my thousand & one lives — a bookmad girl never dies.”
― quote from The Princess Saves Herself in this One
“you have
been the
star
of each
& every
one of
my
nightmares.
"- you left but you stayed.”
― quote from The Princess Saves Herself in this One
“where
do all the
memories go,
the ones we
hide away
with
lock &
key yet
continue
to shape
us all the
s a m e?
"- did it really happen if i can't remember it?”
― quote from The Princess Saves Herself in this One
“a
world
where all
human beings
are taken care of
shouldn't be called
a "revolutionary"
way of life
& yet
it is.
-burn”
― quote from The Princess Saves Herself in this One
“friend request from ........."
a) the girl who said you were ugly.
b) the girl who said your voice was off-key.
c) the girl who refused to defend you.
d) the girl who laughed at you behind your back & to your face.
e) the girl who took your lunch money every day because she said you didn't need to eat.
f) the girl who said you were "fat" even after you starved yourself to death.
g) the girl who was supposed to be your best friend.
h) all the above.
-keep pressing ignore, lovely.”
― quote from The Princess Saves Herself in this One
“if
love
is a
battlefield,
then i
must have
forgotten
all of
my armor
at home.
-a war i never agreed to fight”
― quote from The Princess Saves Herself in this One
“just because they don’t hit you doesn’t mean it isn’t abuse. wouldn’t you think it a crime to look up at the night sky & tell the stars that they have no sparkle? guess what? you shine brighter than all the starlight there has ever been or ever will be. - emotional abuse is still abuse.”
― quote from The Princess Saves Herself in this One
“no” is short for “fuck off.” ”
― quote from The Princess Saves Herself in this One
“he promised to fix me & he left me more s h a t t e r e d than i had been before. - but now i’ve got gold in the cracks.”
― quote from The Princess Saves Herself in this One
“i bet you regret making an enemy out of me. -”
― quote from The Princess Saves Herself in this One
“When I had
no friends
I reached inside
my beloved
books
& sculpted some
out of
12 pt
Times new roman.
-- & it was almost good enough.”
― quote from The Princess Saves Herself in this One
“you may not have left (many) bruises on my skin, but you left giant blackberry bruises all over my soul. - i still wonder who i would have been.”
― quote from The Princess Saves Herself in this One
“Loving someone always requires you to not love others.”
― Koushun Takami, quote from Battle Royale
“Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people, though. Once you know them you mostly forgot about it.”
― Ann Brashares, quote from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
“He walked straight out of college into the waiting arms of the Navy.
They gave him an intelligence test. The first question on the math part had to do with boats on a river: Port Smith is 100 miles upstream of Port Jones. The river flows at 5 miles per hour. The boat goes through water at 10 miles per hour. How long does it take to go from Port Smith to Port Jones? How long to come back?
Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick question. You would have to be some kind of idiot to make the facile assumption that the current would add or subtract 5 miles per hour to or from the speed of the boat. Clearly, 5 miles per hour was nothing more than the average speed. The current would be faster in the middle of the river and slower at the banks. More complicated variations could be expected at bends in the river. Basically it was a question of hydrodynamics, which could be tackled using certain well-known systems of differential equations. Lawrence dove into the problem, rapidly (or so he thought) covering both sides of ten sheets of paper with calculations. Along the way, he realized that one of his assumptions, in combination with the simplified Navier Stokes equations, had led him into an exploration of a particularly interesting family of partial differential equations. Before he knew it, he had proved a new theorem. If that didn't prove his intelligence, what would?
Then the time bell rang and the papers were collected. Lawrence managed to hang onto his scratch paper. He took it back to his dorm, typed it up, and mailed it to one of the more approachable math professors at Princeton, who promptly arranged for it to be published in a Parisian mathematics journal.
Lawrence received two free, freshly printed copies of the journal a few months later, in San Diego, California, during mail call on board a large ship called the U.S.S. Nevada. The ship had a band, and the Navy had given Lawrence the job of playing the glockenspiel in it, because their testing procedures had proven that he was not intelligent enough to do anything else.”
― Neal Stephenson, quote from Cryptonomicon
“Well, au revoir, one and all.”
― P.L. Travers, quote from Mary Poppins
“Sometimes goodness doesn't tell everything it knows. Sometimes goodness waits for the appropriate time and does the best it can with what it has.”
― Sylvain Reynard, quote from Gabriel's Inferno
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