Emily > Recent Status Updates

"It's a privilege to waste time-- waste as much of it as you can. On things you love, on things you enjoy, on moments that make you so happy you could burst. And in the end, of you do it right, none of it will have been a waste at all."

"Likability should hardly be the test in politics if we mean to have good governance"

Louis XVIII sounds like Stewie from family guy in the audiobook narrated by John Lee and now ive gotten the ick

"Everyone in my life wants me to behave in a very specific way that's beneficial to them, and as soon as I deviate from their expectations it's an issue. As soon as I act out of whatever role they cast me in in their lives, it's somehow my fault."

"There's something terrible about that time between lightening and thunder. That cruel purgatory of anticipation, waiting for the universe to scream."

"Maybe delusion is an eagerness to believe. A desperation for it."

"There are few things on this earth that interest me less than Microsoft Excel."

"There is no virtue in advertising one's sadness. But there is no wisdom in denying it either. And there is the beautiful possibility that great love can grow out of sadness if it is well tended. Sadness can make us bitter or wise. We get to choose."

"Nothing is what it's supposed to be if love is not at the core"

The author loves to describe things in 3s that's for sure

"It's hard to see who I am when I am lost in what's expected of me."

"But here is the nature of life. That we must love things with our whole selves, knowing they will die."

To be a woman was to watch yourself not just through your own eyes but through the eyes of others.

This is actually really scary omg they need to make this a movie asap

"Maybe independence is just the flag we wave to distract from the pain of being alone."