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Stars are beautiful, but they may not take an active part in anything, they must just look on for ever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was. So the older ones have become glassy-eyed and seldom speak (winking is the star language), but the little ones still wonder.
J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan (via tale-of-woe)
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We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey.
Leonard Cohen, Poems and Songs (via penseesduchoeur)
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I think we rarely say what we mean. I think we say what we say.
Alfred Uhry (via thefreaksquotebook)
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You have nothing to feel ashamed or embarrassed about. If you had diabetes, you would not be like, “I don’t want to tell my friends and family about my diabetes, because it will make them worry about me, so I’ll just continue to have this untreated diabetes until it disables or kills me.”
You deal with illness by treating it, and a big part of that is being honest and upfront with your friends and family and getting the help that you need to live a healthy and productive life.
John Green (via thefreaksquotebook)
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I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (via alecshao)
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I have a theory that everyone’s crazy anyway. And those who think they aren’t, are the ones who are even crazier - because they’re in denial
Micheal Fassbender (via hayyyymitch)
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And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
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Everything that makes you feel alone, right now, in high school, is what’s gonna make you an awesome, interesting adult.
Gillian Jacobs (via thefreaksquotebook)
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