Mem

"If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your s***, then you deserve it."

Frank Zappa

"Do you want a cookie?
- What?
- A cookie. Like an Oreo. Do you want one?
- No.
- How can you not want a cookie?
- I just don’t.
- Okay, fine,let’s say you did want a cookie. Let’s say you were dying for a cookie, and there were cookies in the cupboard. What would you do?
- I’d eat a cookie?
- Exactly. That’s all I’m saying.
- What are you saying?
- That if people want cookies, they should get a cookie. It’s what people do.
- Let me guess. Dad won’t let you have a
cookie?
- No. Even though I’m practically starving to death, he won’t even consider it. He says I have to have a sandwich first.
- And you don’t think that’s fair.
- You just said you’d get a cookie if you wanted one. So why can’t I? I’m not a little kid. I can make my own decisions.
- Hmm. I can see why this bothers you so
much.
- It’s not fair. If he wants a cookie, he can have one. If you want a cookie,
you can have one. But if I want a cookie, the rules don’t count. Like you
said, it’s not fair.
- So what are you going to do?
- I’m going to eat a sandwich. Because I have to. Because the world isn’t fair
to ten-year-olds."

Nicholas Sparks, The Last Song

"It’s nearly midnight now and I’m running out of time to make this. I worked all day long. On a Saturday! Yeah, I know. The sad part is, I spent all day long hoping for something amazing to happen, something great, something to appreciate this day, and to be a part of it, and to show the world that there’s something great that can happen every day of your life, in everyone’s life. But the truth is, it doesn’t always happen. And for me, today all day long, nothing really happened. I want people to know that I’m here. I don’t wanna cease to exist. I’m not gonna sit here and tell you that I’m this great person because I don’t think I am, at all. I think I’m a normal girl. Normal life.
Not interesting enough to know anything about. But I want to be. And today even though nothing great really happened, tonight I feel as if something great happened."

Life in a day

(Source: araseel, via kholoodone)

"وفي لحظة يسيطر علي شعور غريب بالوحدة، و أتململ كإنسان لا يعرف ما يعمله في الحياة."

أورهان باموق | أسمي أحمر

"إن مجتمعنا قد سلب ثقته من المرأة طوال القرون الماضية و حصر أهداف تربيته لها على الصيانة الجنسية حتى أنها لم تعد تحتاج أن تفعل شيئا سوى أن تصون نفسها بين أربعة جدران، و هي صيانة - في نهاية المطاف - لاتعني العفة بل تعني العجز عن العفة بدون جدران."

الصادق النيهوم | نقاش

"You must drop those thoughts …” said the engineer gravely and admonishingly.
“Why?”
“Because… . Thoughts like that are for the end of life, not for the beginning of it. You are too young for them.”
“Why so?” repeated the student.
“All these thoughts of the transitoriness, the insignificance and the aimlessness of life, of the inevitability of death, of the shadows of the grave, and so on, all such lofty thoughts, I tell you, my dear fellow, are good and natural in old age when they come as the product of years of inner travail, and are won by suffering and really are intellectual riches; for a youthful brain on the threshold of real life they are simply a calamity! A calamity!” Ananyev repeated with a wave of his hand. “To my mind it is better at your age to have no head on your shoulders at all than to think on these lines. I am speaking seriously, Baron. And I have been meaning to speak to you about it for a long time, for I noticed from the very first day of our acquaintance your partiality for these damnable ideas!” "

Lights by Anton Chekhov

"… but I soon detected an absent-minded expression on her face, she did not understand me."

Love by Anton Chekhov

"THREE o’clock in the morning. The soft April night is looking in at my windows and caressingly winking at me with its stars. I can’t sleep, I am so happy!"

Love by Anton Chekhov