I'm Grady
July 2011
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“Somebody loves you if they don’t mind the quiet. They don’t mind running errands with you or cleaning your apartment while blasting some annoying music. There’s no pressure, no need to fill the silences. You know how with some of your friends there needs to be some sort of activity for you to hang out? You don’t feel comfortable just shooting the shit and watching bad reality TV with them. You need something that will keep the both of you busy to ensure there won’t be a void. That’s not love. That’s ‘hey babe! i like you okay. do you wanna grab lunch? i think we have enough to talk about to fill two hours!’ It’s a damn dream when you find someone you can do nothing with. Whether you’re skydiving together or sitting at home and doing different things, it’s always comfortable. That is fucking love.”
—How To Tell If Somebody Loves You
Thought Catalog (via 27sandcastles)
Thought Catalog (via 27sandcastles)
“You’re wrong, Ender. You think you’re grown up and tired and jaded with everything, but in your heart you’re just as much a kid as I am. We can keep it secret from everybody else. While you’re governing the colony and I’m writing political philosophy, they’ll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other’s room and play checkers and have pillow fights.”
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-Orson Scott Card, “Ender’s Game” (via like-sartre-and-beauvoir)
I never could manage to get through this book in high school without getting bored and giving up, despite trying several times, but I do like this bit an awful lot.
The Douchiest Colleges in America: 2011 Edition: Humor: GQ →
gq.com
Laughing with Isaac about this and our first reaction was “Yes! We made it along with a bunch of big schools!” shortly followed by “HAHAH THAT’S BRIAN MAHONEY-PIERCE”
Sooo pumped up when I saw this!
Y.E.S.
“I love you much (most beautiful darling)
More than anyone on the earth and I
Like you better than everything in the sky” —E. E. Cummings (via ireadintothings)
More than anyone on the earth and I
Like you better than everything in the sky” —E. E. Cummings (via ireadintothings)
“”Biblical infallibility and biblical literalism typically go together, but they are not intrinsically related. There is no necessary connection. God could speak infallibly in the language of poetry, metaphor, and myth.”
—Marcus J. Borg; The Heart of Christianity
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Let her be bored. Let her have long afternoons with absolutely nothing to do. Limit her TV-watching time and her internet-playing time and take away her cell phone. Give her a whole summer of lazy mornings and dreamy afternoons. Make sure she has a library card and a comfy corner where she can curl up with a book.
Give her a notebook and five bucks so she can pick out a great pen. Insist she spend time with the family. It’s even better if this time is spent in another state, a cabin in the woods, a cottage on the lake, far from her friends and people her own age. Give her some tedious chores to do. Make her mow the lawn, do the dishes by hand, paint the garage. Make her go on long walks with you and tell her you just want to listen to the sounds of the neighborhood.
Let her be lonely. Let her believe that no one in the world truly understands her. Give her the freedom to fall in love with the wrong person, to lose her heart, to have it smashed and abused and broken. Occasionally be too busy to listen, be distracted by other things, have your nose in a great book, be gone with your own friends. Let her have secrets
” —Make Your Kid A Writer (via Ta-Nehisi Coates:kateoplis:georgiaisyourfriend)
12 hours a day, multiple day road trips do the trick, too.
(via sarajudy)
