“When you have failed at being nice, you’ve actually succeeded in being mean. Success is everywhere if you know where to look for it.”
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“To ugly ducklings everywhere,
Don't worry about those fluffy yellow morons:
They'll never get to be swans”
― The Swan Kingdom
Don't worry about those fluffy yellow morons:
They'll never get to be swans”
― The Swan Kingdom
“Dad, one of my first memories is of sharing my worry with you about the space shuttle poking holes in the atmosphere and letting out all of Earth's air.”
― The Way of Shadows
― The Way of Shadows
“After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially since 1563, the number of writings published in every field is greater than all those produced in the past thousand years. The Paracelsians have created medicine anew and the Copernicans have created astronomy anew. I really believe that at last the world is alive, indeed seething, and that the stimuli of these remarkable conjunctions did not act in vain.”
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“Sometimes you just have to put on lip gloss and pretend to be psyched.”
― Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
― Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
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