caseyisadumbhuman:

to-goboldly:

vondell-swain:

not in our stars, but in ourselves

oh, this is lovely.

why would you do this to me this is perfect.

I kind of want to keep track of how many cups of tea I drink a day. Today so far, I’ve had 2 cups.

"I don’t know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likable characters with whom you can have some simple identification. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make your brain go all like i>[unintelligible noises]"

The kid I’m watching is singing along to Muse. They’re 2. Awesome.

(Source: forget-why)

"You know what I believe? I remember in college I was taking this math class, this really great math class taught by this tiny old woman. She was talking about fast Fourier transforms and she stopped midsentence and said, ‘Sometimes it seems the universe wants to be noticed.’ That’s what I believe. I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it - or my observation of it - is temporary?"

julieheartsbooks:

leahclifford:

tinaoreo:

last night

The Fault in Our Stars

This will probably be me tonight.

The Fault in Our Stars, thank you very much!

(Source: reblogthis-if)

petrichloroform:

Oh wow. Sassy Siri.

"On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They slipped over my tongue and spilled from my mouth. And because of them I, who was nothing and nobody, was a prince of Denmark, a maid of Verona, a queen of Egypt. I was a sour misanthrope, a beetling hypocrite, a conjurer’s daughter, a mad and murderous king."

"The fundamental mistake I had always made—and that she had, in fairness, always led me to make—was this: Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl."