There is an unfair responsibility that comes with being an only child—you grow up knowing you aren’t allowed to disappoint, you’re not even allowed to die. There isn’t a replacement toddling around; you’re it. It makes you desperate to be flawless, and it also makes you drunk with the power.
From Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn.
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The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.
Buddha
wiji:
This must be underwater love.
A joke is a statement just like any other, one that draws from and contributes to our ideas about society and culture.
Saying that the content of someone’s words is functionally irrelevant because it makes us laugh is an insulting notion not only to the butt of the joke, but to the art of comedy itself, because it treats it like it doesn’t mean anything.
Prettiness!
“You feel a moment. I’m not certain if it’s a second lost or a second gained, but in that moment the Earth stops. It’s the moment you watch a child, a young girl in purple shoes, pull a loaded AK-47 assault rifle from the cab of a pick-up truck.” Brian Blanco, “An Amendment Revisited”, Reuters
A boy sits with masked militants from the Ezzedine al-Qassam brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement, during the visit of Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Gaza City, Gaza.
Photograph: Ali Ali
