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I spend far too much time breaking hearts before they can break mine. But the soft underbelly of emotions means I always give them ample chance to bruise.

Why is there so much self-denigration and envy? Because every woman somehow finds herself, without her consent, entered into a beauty contest with every other woman. No matter how irrelevant to her goals, how inappropriate to her talents and endowments, or how ridiculous the comparison, women are always compared one to another and found wanting. Hillary Clinton’s haircuts…get as much press coverage as [her] words and actions.

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Nancy Etcoff, Survival of the Prettiest (via dancewiththedevilonyourback)

Said far better than I ever could. That’s why I end up unwittingly comparing myself

(via alllllll-of-the-spectacular)

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NO. No no no. I don’t want to screw you. I just love you. When did who you want to screw become the whole game? Since when is the person you want to screw the only person you get to love? It’s so stupid, Tiny! I mean, Jesus, who even gives a fuck about sex?! People act like it’s the most important thing humans do, but come on. How can our sentient fucking lives revolve around something slugs can do. I mean, who you want to screw and whether you screw them? Those are important questions, I guess. But they’re not that important. You know what’s important? Who would you die for? Who do you wake up at five forty-five in the morning for even though you don’t even know why he needs you? Whose drunken nose would you pick?!

— Will Grayson, Will Grayson, John Green & David Levithan (via followandreblog)

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, it’s unlikely you will step up and take responsibility for making it so. If you assume that there’s no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there’s a chance you may contribute to making a better world. The choice is yours.

— Noam Chomsky (via ninefoldgoddess)

(Source: whimsicalele)

when things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. it’s because a little piece gets lost — the two remaining ends couldn’t fit together even if they wanted to. the whole shape has changed.

— David Levithan, Will Grayson Will Grayson (via e-p-i-c-q-u-o-t-e)

You like someone who can’t like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.

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Will Grayson, Will Grayson

J. Green & D. Levithan

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