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“Home is just a soft place to land in between adventures, or trouble, or what the hell ever. It’s a harbor, not an anchor. Be brave, see the world, every forest and mountain, and know you always have a safe place to rest and come back to.”
― What I Carry
― What I Carry
“Adopted is not an adjective,” he said. “Joellen says that. It’s an event that happens, not who you are. As an adjective it implies inherent bullshit about a person that isn’t true. A person is not ‘adopted.’ They were adopted. Words matter.”
― What I Carry
― What I Carry
“Don't ever not get angry. You've got every right. No reason to hold on to it forever of course, just always give anger it's due. Let it show sometimes. Respect it.”
― What I Carry
― What I Carry
“Not being perfect is for people who have families; you can screw up and they still keep you.”
― What I Carry
― What I Carry
“Memory is a fascinating thing. Months and years can pass, uneventful and lost, but then certain tiny moments, pieces of conversation or feelings within the thousands of blank days stay sharp, clear like yesterday.”
― What I Carry
― What I Carry
“The entire fucking point of being born is that someone is supposed to take care of you.”
― What I Carry
― What I Carry
“No person, no thing—not Antarctica, not the universe, not ballet—is ever obligated to love us back. True, honest love for a thing is because you love it, with no expectation or want of reciprocation.”
― Up to This Pointe
― Up to This Pointe
“...Your love is evident,' she says. 'But, darling, sometimes the ballet does not love us back.”
― Up to This Pointe
― Up to This Pointe
“It's not like I'm dead inside. It's that I'm allergic to manufactured, insincere emotion. A lifetime of people saying one thing but doing the opposite has inoculated me, and now I understand how to survive with my freedom and sanity intact until I'm eighteen.”
― What I Carry
― What I Carry
“It takes patience and love and bravery to have a home. To not just run off to the next place when things are hard. Or frightening. Or lonely.”
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“She puts her mittened hands on the sides of my hood. “Okay, then remember: ‘Science is nothing but perception’—that’s Plato. He was all about getting out of the cave, seeing life from a new angle, in a new light, letting things move all they want. The ice we’re standing on is shifting as we speak. We’re not where we were five minutes ago. Be here while you’re here. Understand?”
― Up to This Pointe
― Up to This Pointe
“Luck is bullshit. What people refer to as “luck” is actually opportunity meeting preparation. Opportunity will come if you invite it. If you are prepared.”
― Up to This Pointe
― Up to This Pointe
“As far as I could tell, this movie was about parents who had two cute children they were determined to spend as little time with as possible. And so they hire a woman who constantly gaslights the kids and makes them doubt their own sanity; she takes them on fantastical trips, then says they never happened. She gives them the powers of flight and time travel, encourages them to surrender to the magic and enjoy themselves, then acts all affronted and accuses them of lying when they mention how fun the adventure was. The whole movie seemed to be introducing the concept of what a nanny was and, at the same time, arguing against ever employing one.”
― What I Carry
― What I Carry
“Memory, as a substance, is definitely water. It either evaporates completely, or it gets soaked into the brain sponge until the sponge gets squeezed by some unexpected something, and then the water spills everywhere.”
― What I Carry
― What I Carry
“Human decency is thicker than blood.”
― What I Carry
― What I Carry
“Hard work fixes shit all the time.”
― What I Carry
― What I Carry
“Follow the sun and you'll always be where you're meant to be.”
― Up to This Pointe
― Up to This Pointe
“People can be wonderful.”
― What I Carry
― What I Carry
“Any kid would be lucky to have this chance! Couple hours after school in your very own office”—says the guy who hated being in an office so much he’s making his family live in a graveyard—“and you’re getting paid? It’s icing on the cake!” “I don’t want cake,” I whispered.”
― Six Feet Over It
― Six Feet Over It
“Entitlement. No person, no thing—not Antarctica, not the universe, not ballet—is ever obligated to love us back. True, honest love for a thing is because you love it, with no expectation or want of reciprocation. You love ballet?”
― Up to This Pointe
― Up to This Pointe
“Follow the sun and you’ll always be where you’re meant to be.”
― Up to This Pointe
― Up to This Pointe
“Amundsen in my will, Scott in my blood, I will plant my flag.”
― Up to This Pointe
― Up to This Pointe
“I’ve told Dario enough with the skeletons.” She reaches once more into her Mary Poppins bag of magicalness and presses another familiar twine-bound tissue package into my hand. “I made this for you. We hid it with the rings—don’t ask.…” “Yeah, okay.” “With the cocaine,” Dario whispers. She gives him another look.”
― Six Feet Over It
― Six Feet Over It
