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If you take, we will take back. Steal from us, and we will rob you blind. When you squeeze, we will hit.
This is the way the world is made now.
- Pandemonium by Lauren Oliver
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Medicine, law, business, engineering — these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love — these are what we stay alive for.
- Dead Poets Society (via mjoftheday)
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You can’t just make me different and then leave…
- Looking for Alaska, John Green (via sobutand)
Your past is just a story. And once you realize this, it has no power over you.
- Chuck Palahniuk  (via blood—countess)
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…because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars…
- Kerouac-On the Road (via ryantcarson)
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What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.
- Chuck Palahniuk, Choke  (via vanityem)
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Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you’re lucky.
- Alan Moore (via teenagewitch)
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And now she was colder by the hour, more dead with every breath I took. I thought: That is the fear: I have lost something important and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and hey told him that the world had run out of glasses and he would just have to do without.
- Looking For Alaska (via d4untless)

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