FAVORITE QUOTES "I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you’ll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you’ll make something that didn’t exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind." — Neil Gaiman "I never change, I simply become more myself." — Joyce Carol Oates "Do you see that tree? It is dead but it still sways in the wind with the others. I think it would be like that with me. That if I died I would still be part of life in one way or another." — Anton Chekhov, The Three Sisters "We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving." — J.K. Rowling "In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him. I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves. And then, in that very moment when I love them…. I destroy them." — Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game "The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen." — Elisabeth Kübler-Ross "Destroying things is much easier than making them." — Katniss Everdeen; The Hunger Games “Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.” —John Lennon "Have you ever had that feeling that no one was on your side? For example, let's say you get into an arguement with someone, right? Let's also say you think of talking to someone else about it after the arguement, all you want is someone to talk to because you're feeling angry or down and you need someone to convey your feelings to. Do you ever just think of doing that but then don't because you feel the person, no matter how close, will just take the other person's side? I feel like a lot. No matter who the person is I want to talk to, I don't talk to them, because I feel like they won't take my side. This makes me not want to take my own side, it makes me want to just curl up under a rock and drown in this dumb feeling. I just want someone to take my side for once. Just one person." -Desirae Carr (exploreration) "I like to complain a lot, it’s just what I do." — Desirae Carr (exploreration) “Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there’s something inside us that’s so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won’t be able to stand looking at it. But it’s when we’re willing to come face to face with that demon that we face the angel.” - Hubert Selby Jr., Last Exit To Brooklyn “I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.” -Franz Kafka, The Castle “That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.” -John Green ""When I was younger I wanted to be older, and now that I’m older, I wish I was younger. My parents would wipe away the blood from my knees, put a cute little band aid on my scrape, and a kiss on top of it all. I would magically wake up in my bed in the morning and wonder how I got there, when I fell asleep on the living room floor. Staying up late meant going to bed at 8:30, and the only electronic found in my room was a colour changing night light. The only time a boy/girl made me cry was on the playground, and broken hearts were only stepped on cookies. Friendships were built by trading what was inside your lunchbox, and sleeping in school was part of the schedule. Chocolate milk and puppies meant everything, and clothes were just something your parents put on you when you woke up in the morning. We all had cubbyholes and homework never existed. Parents smiled and laughed at every word you said, and people stopped to tell your mum how adorable you were. Your dad was your best friend, and fuck wasn’t in your vocabulary. No one cared if you had the same shirt as them, and myspace didn’t exist. MTV was boring, and the only thing you were in love with was cartoon characters. You took time to see everything around you, and you could make an adventure out of any place, at any time. It’s weird how one day everything changed. You couldn’t care less if your parents existed, and you start to obsess over how you look. You don’t appreciate everything around you, and you don’t know what you have until it’s gone. Your grandparents aren’t here anymore, and you spend most of your life behind a computer screen, with the phone glued to your ear. The friends you had 6 years ago, are enemies, and you suddenly start watching what you eat. Before you know it you will have kids of your own, and your parents won’t be here for you to rely on. The friends you have now, you probably won’t see after highschool and you will spent most of the rest of your life working to buy your kids the shit that keeps them where they ‘need to be socially’. They say life goes by fast, so slow it down as much as you can." -Unknown