“Life is short, right? We both know that. Well, what if you’re my chance? What if you are the thing that’s actually going to make me happiest?”
— Jojo Moyes, After You
“You’re not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It’s simple. It’s your right.”
— Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
ok lemme get into the horror of dolores roach and see what it’s giving
WHAT ARE IN THOSE EMPANADAS????
Imagine how many people dislike you because they didn’t hear your side of the story
June 2004: An LGBT rights group sailed to an island off Queensland Australia, and declared it a sovereign kingdom in order to perform same-sex marriages, which were illegal in Australia at the time.
This led to the Australian government formally recognising it as a hostile nation in order to ban pride flags from government buildings.
Despite this, Australian governments did largely act cordially with the Kingdom, with government departments addressing communications to "The Gay Embassy" and acknowledging the Kingdom's mission in a number of letters.
The Gay Kingdom declared peace with Australia in 2017 after same-sex marriage was legalised, and formally re-united with the mainland shortly after.
Follow for more batshit moments in Australian politics
“I think too deeply about everything. I still don’t know if that allows me to see more of the world, or less of it.”
— Mobeen Hakeem
“The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.”
—
Heraclitus
Leonora Carrington, from ‘The Sisters’, The Complete Stories
“We’re all so desperate to be understood, we forget to be understanding.”
— Beau Taplin
“A soul so restless I shake the gentle from my ribs. Replace it with the war paint of impulse. Go to battle for a metamorphosis. A chance at moth wings. Find the mountains in me when I grow. The corn fields, the salt lakes. Watch me grow out of this skin & into a new one. Out of this life & into the next one.”
— Kelsey Danielle, “Evolution in the Form of Moths”
“One day I will show you the dirt beneath my nails and you’ll know not only of the things I’ve buried and the graves I’ve dug, but of the weeds picked and the flowers grown.”
Natalie Díaz, from “Isn't the Air Also a Body, Moving?”, Postcolonial Love Poem
“You sometimes think you want to disappear, but all you really want is to be found.”
— Kid Cudi
“Sometimes it feels better not to talk. At all. About anything. To anyone.”
— Breaking Bad