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“Maybe next time we have a week, they can try not to pack it completely to the fucking brim with explosions, mutilations, death, manhunts, lies, weeping, and the utter uselessness of our political system,” said basically every person in America who isn’t comatose or a complete sociopath. “You know, maybe try to spread some of that total misery across the other 51 weeks in the year. Just a thought.”

“Gotta hand it to this week, though,” added the entire American populace, laughing and crying at the same time. “It’s a motherfucker.”

At press time, sources confirmed that, you know what? Forget this week. 2013 as a whole can pretty much go straight to hell where it belongs.

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- “Jesus, This Week” again courtesy of The Onion. 

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"The first time he’d held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt."

- Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell (via stay-safe-stay-strong)

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"Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape?…If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!"

- J.R.R. Tolkien (via caramelfeathers)

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"Fear can’t hurt you,” she said. “When it washes over you, give it no power. It’s a snake with no venom. Remember that. That knowledge can save you."

- The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson

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"I hate people who write off other people’s talents just because of their taste in movies. I left film-school for that very reason. The first thing the teacher told us was “If you want to make Terminator 2, leave now” and I was like, fuck you man. There could be a kid sat in the corner disheartened because Terminator 2 is the movie he wants to make, that’s his vision and here’s the teacher telling him he can’t do that. He had no fucking right, none of us do. Besides, I think Terminator 2 is a pretty kick-ass movie."

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Paul Thomas Anderson (via rossbirks)

(THIS ALSO APPLIES TO BOOKS/WRITERS.)

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"The truth is human life is a continuum, and while I’m a lot happier and my life is a lot more stable (and less intense) than it was when I was a teenager, I don’t feel THAT distant from it.
I may, someday. And then I may have to write something else, or not write at all. But for now, I still find that time of life very interesting and accessible. It’s an important time, because everything interesting is happening for the first time, and you’re asking the big interesting questions of our species for the first time, without irony or fear. I really love writing about and for such people, and I hope I get to do it for a long time."

- John Green on adolescence and writing for teenagers

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abeautiful-melody:

-John Green from An Evening of Awesome

When i heard John Green say those words, i remembered the scene in TFIOS where Gus rescued the civilians by diving towards the grenade. Maybe it’s just me but I believe that in that moment, Gus knew. 

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"I don’t really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it’s always nice, I’ll grant you, if he has one."

- J.D. Salinger, Seymour - An Introduction (via quotebooks)

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"I privately say to you, old friend (unto you, really, I’m afraid), please accept from me this unpretentious bouqet of very early-blooming parentheses: ((())))."

- Seymour An Introduction, J.D. Salinger (via lamecookies)

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"There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book."

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Philip Pullman

(found here)

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"People often didn’t stop to think. They thought as they went along. Sometimes it was a good idea just to stop moving, in case you moved the wrong way."

- I Shall Wear Midnight by Terry Pratchett

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— Lemony Snicket

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"A day after I got my eye cut out, Gus showed up at the hospital. I was blind and heartbroken and didn’t want to do anything and Gus burst into my room and shouted, ‘I have wonderful news!’ And I was like, ‘I don’t really want to hear wonderful news right now,’ and Gus said, ‘This is wonderful news you want to hear,’ and I asked him, ‘Fine, what is it?’ and he said, ‘You are going to live a good and long life filled with great and terrible moments that you cannot even imagine yet!’"

- Isaac, The Fault in Our Stars 

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