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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Oscar Wilde
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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.” - Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
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Funny how when your life is mostly bullshit, you turn off feeling.
Sometimes it’s hard to turn it back on again.
Ellen Hopkins, Identical
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I can’t tell anymore when I’m asleep and when I’m awake, or which is worse.
Laurie Halse Anderson
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THE FIRST TEN LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL
1. We are here to help you.
2. You will have time to get to your class before the bell rings.
3. The dress code will be enforced.
4. No smoking is allowed on school grounds.
5. Our football team will win the championship this year.
6. We expect more of you here.
7. Guidance counselors are always available to listen.
8. Your schedule was created with you in mind.
9. Your locker combination is private.
10. These will be the years you look back on fondly.
TEN MORE LIES THEY TELL YOU IN HIGH SCHOOL
1. You will use algebra in your adult lives.
2. Driving to school is a privilege that can be taken away.
3. Students must stay on campus during lunch.
4. The new text books will arrive any day now.
5. Colleges care more about you than your SAT scores.
6. We are enforcing the dress code.
7. We will figure out how to turn off the heat soon.
8. Our bus drivers are highly trained professionals.
9. There is nothing wrong with summer school.
10. We want to hear what you have to say.
Laurie Halse Anderson
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What do I want?
The answer to that question does not exist.
Laurie Halse Anderson
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I have nothing. I say nothing. I am nothing.
Laurie Halse Anderson
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It’s easier not to say anything. Shut your trap, button your lip, can it. All that crap you hear on TV about communication and expressing feelings is a lie. Nobody really wants to hear what you have to say.
Laurie Halse Anderson
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I was supposed to be having the time of my life.
Sylvia Plath
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I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like a black shade. Only for me, the long perspective of shades that set off one box from the next day had suddenly snapped up, and I could see day after day after day glaring ahead of me like a white, broad, infinitely desolate avenue.
Sylvia Plath
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Like driving along a bumpy road and losing control of the steering wheel, tossing you—just a tad—off the road. The wheels kick up some dirt, but you’re able to pull it back. Yet no matter how hard you try to drive straight, something keeps jerking you to the side. You have so little control over anything anymore. And at some point, the struggle becomes too much—too tiring—and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy…or whatever…to happen.
Jay Asher
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If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.
Sylvia Plath (via wasteofayoungheart)
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You see how instantly the ground can shift you thought was solid. You can see the stop signs and the yellow dividing markers of roads you traveled and all the instructions you had played according to vanish. You see how everyday things you counted on was just a dream you had been having by which you run your whole life
Louise Edrich
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The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
Sylvia Plath
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Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit.
Chuck Palahniuk
