January 2012
“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flame yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don‘t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling.”
—David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (via boxofoctaves)
Valentine Application
- are you alive
- do you like mozzarella sticks
accurate
“Love gets so sexualized in our world. We start to feel like there is no love outside of romantic love. There are lots of wonderful love stories that have nothing to do with sex or romance, and I guess I wanted to write one of those.”
—John Green (on writing Will Grayson, Will Grayson with David Levithan)
There's basically nothing to do with John Green on pinterest.
Therefore I’m already kind of bored with it.
“It was nice - in the dark and the quiet… and her eyes looking back, like there was something in me worth seeing.”
—John Green (via nostalgicbird) Paper Towns (via epicjohngreenquotes)
The Suite Life of Zac and Cody
the box said it would be a honey-mist auburn
honey, you missed auburn big time
Emily Blunt looked like mint chocolate at the SAG awards.
Is that I weird way to describe someone? Whatever…
