Hemingway- A Clean, Lighted Place
Last week he tried to commit suicide, one waiter said.
Why?
He was in despair.
What about?
Nothing.
How did you know it was nothing?
He has plenty of money.
"If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don’t want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it, too. I want them to be able to do whatever they want around me"
- Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
(Source: thetalentedkurthummel, via greenskies-over-bluefields)
"What if the water that came out of the shower was treated with a chemical that responded to a combination of things, like your heartbeat, and your body temperature, and your brain waves, so that your skin changed color according to your mood? If you were extremely excited your skin would turn green, and if you were angry you’d turn red, obviously, and if you felt like shiitake you’d turn brown, and if you were blue you’d turn blue. Everyone could know what everyone else felt, and we could be more careful with each other, because you’d never want to tell a person whose skin was purple that you’re angry at her for being late, just like you would want to pat a pink person on the back and tell him, “Congratulations!” Another reason it would be a good invention is that there are so many times when you know you’re feeling a lot of something, but you don’t know what the something is. Am I frustrated? Am I actually just panicky? And that confusion changes your mood, it becomes your mood, and you become a confused, gray person. But with the special water, you could look at your orange hands and think, I’m happy! That whole time I was actually happy! What a relief!"
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
(Source: drizzleandhurricane)
"I read in the National Geographic that there are more people alive now than have died in all of human history. In other words, if everyone wanted to play Hamlet at once, they couldn’t, because there aren’t enough skulls!"
- Oskar Schell, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (via thefaint-heartedartist)
"I spent my life learning to feel less.
Every day I felt less.
Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."
- Jonathan Safran Foer - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. This man is incredible.
(Source: dreamsuponthousandsofdreams)
"I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live, Oskar. Because if I were able to live my life again, I would do things differently."
- Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Grandma to Oskar
(via an-echo)
