Consumerism thrives on emotional voids.
I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable.
The important people in our lives leave imprints. They may stay or go in the physical realm, but they are always there in your heart, because they helped form your heart. There's no getting over that.
I've always resented Hermione, because I wanted to be her so badly and she never seemed to appreciate as much as I thought she should that she got be her. She got to live at Hogwarts and be friends with Harry and kiss Ron, which was supposed to happen to me.
No--when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it, because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life. (Nick, page 156)
I want to believe there is a somebody out there for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.
When in doubt, ingest carbs.
Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.
As I am, so are others as others are, so am I. Having thus identified self and others, harm no one nor have them harmed.
I am a hunter. Not merely 'a person who hunts', but someone to whom this ancient, natural and honorable activity is an essential and deeply meaningful part of life.
I remember riding across the Brooklyn Bridge about 12 times because they wanted me to keep up with the helicopter, and I said, "Can you have the helicopter keep up with me, my calves are burning!"