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alice-crowin · 1 year

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𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊 some of my favourite quotes 𓍊𓋼𓍊𓋼𓍊

“Do not fall in love with people like me. I will take you to museums, and parks, and monuments, and kiss you in every beautiful place, so that you can never go back to them without tasting me like blood in your mouth. I will destroy you in the most beautiful way possible. And when I leave you will finally understand, why storms are named after people." - caitlyn siehl

“It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.” - Warsan Shire

“She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims...” - arundhati roy

“If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong.” - masaru emoto

#quotes #writer #writing #teen writer #wannabe writer #wannabe author #quotations #caitlyn siehl #text #poetry #novels #books #old books #stories #quotes from authors #favorite quotes #warsan shire #arundhati roy #masaru emoto

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baby-girl-aaron-dessner · 6 months

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Poetry on Palestine

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heritageposts · 6 months

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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, by Ilan Pappé (2006, p. 72)

The rhetoric from Israel and their defenders really hasn't changed one bit, has it? Months and months of terrorizing Palestinian villages, and the moment they retaliate, it must be because the Arabs are violent Nazis set to exterminate the oh-so-peaceful Zionist settlers for no other reason than them being Jewish

And what were the Zionists settlers - with Ben-Gurion's explicit approval - doing at the time?

Pappé (2006, p. 58)

Similarly, in the villages:

Pappé (2006, p. 57)

Still the same playbook, 75+ years later...

Also, it's important to understand that these violent attacks against Palestinian cities and villages - and there were many more in the winter of 47/48 than the examples included here - were part of a larger, deliberate operation meant to 'drive out' (i.e. ethnically cleanse) the Native population of Palestine. It didn't matter if the Palestinians were just quietly living their life in the countryside; if they were not Jewish, they would had to go. And if the Zionists could not find a pretext for retaliation, they would make one.

In the aftermath of the UN partition, this operation of ethnic cleansing - without 'pretext' - was not only openly discussed, but approved of, by Ben-Gurion and the rest of the Zionist leadership:

Pappé (2006, p. 64)

What we're seeing today in Gaza - with the collective punishment of 2 million Palestinians - is the continuation of this very same Zionist program of ethnic cleansing that Israel was founded on.

#free palestine #palestine #gaza #these are all quotes from ch. 4 #which deals with the immediate aftermath of the UN partition #starting now on chapter 5 of my rereading #and once again i encourage everyone to read along with me #if you can't afford to buy it there's always libgen (or google author + title + pdf and a copy should come up)

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cupofteajones · 2 years

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Quote of the Day- August 27,2022

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#Agatha Christie #Books #British writers #creative writing #Quote of the Day #Quotes #Quotes about Writing I&039;d Rather Be Writing #Quotes from Authors #writing Quotes

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frog-financial-support · 2 years

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Fanfic authors when referring to eyes: it’s orbin’ time

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thepoisonroom · 17 days

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'I flirted with the idea that instead of being trans that I was just a cross-dresser (a quirk, I thought, that could be quietly folded into an otherwise average life) and that my dysphoria was sexual in nature, and sexual only. And if my feelings were only sexual, then, I wondered, perhaps I wasn’t actually trans.

I had read about a book called The Man Who Would Be Queen, by a Northwestern University professor who believed that transwomen who were attracted to women were really confused fetishists, they wanted to be women to satisfy an autogynephilia. And though I first read about this book in the context of its debunkment and disparagement, I thought about the electricity of slipping on those tights, zipping up those boots, and a stream of guilt followed. Maybe this professor was right, and maybe I was only a fetishist. Not trans, just a misguided boy.

About a year later, on the Internet, I come across a transwoman who added a unique message to the crowd refuting this professor. Oh, I wish I remember who this woman was, and I wish even more that I could do better than paraphrase her, but I remember her saying something like this: “Well, of course I feel sexy putting on women’s clothing and having a woman’s body. If you feel comfortable in your body for the first time, won’t that probably mean it’ll be the first time you feel comfortable, too, with delighting in your body as a sexual thing?”'

-Casey Plett, Consciousness

#this quote always moves me almost to tears when i remember it #i'm not a trans woman and i don't share the author's specific experiences with transition #but it really moves me that she frame transition as joyfully giving yourself permission to approach your body #not as something that has to be disciplined and deprived and made small in all these various ways #but as a means for experiencing pleasure and joy and delight and for insisting that our feelings and desires are worth #valuing and exploring and treasuring #i always used to think of prioritizing those things for myself as selfish and irresponsible #but who does it harm to want to experience pleasure in your own body?#it's such a beautifully simple and powerful switch to have flip in your head #and equally why are we forced to deny our own pleasure in transition and anything else related to our bodies in the name of moral rectitude #this is why i get so confused and pissed off when other trans people are fatphobic for example #like why are you so invested in politics of shame and disgust that never had any purpose other than #violently disciplining people as if they've violated moral codes by existing in a body #to say nothing of white people being racist in gay and trans communities #like again this system of violence is foundational to homophobia and transphobia #so why are you acting like it has nothing to do with you #even if you are unmoved by the urgency of other people's suffering which btw you should be moved by #what do you hope to gain by acting a collaborator and handmaiden to those systems #Casey Plett #she really is one of my favorite authors i wish more non-canadians read her #this quote is from a series of columns she did ont transition and every single one is a banger #i love when she talks about the people-pleasing elements of dysphoria and transition denial #she's so sharp about noting how many of us deny our own dysphoria on the grounds that others like and validate our bodies #that's how i always felt during my cis conventionally feminine era #it pleased other people so much and also that reception felt so hollow and joyless to me because i hated it #i get less of that positive feedback but that feels so unimportant next to the joy and pleasure i get to experience #said with the understanding that i'm very privileged in being able to prioritize those things without fear. but it was a switch flip #personal nonsense

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knifekraze · 1 day

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love that all the characters in saw are doomed. from the moment they appear onscreen their fate has already been sealed. they can't help themselves because they've been dead since the beginning.

#does this make sense are you guys gettin what im puttin down #this is a butchered quote from somewhere but i cant rember the author #saw #mark hoffman #amanda young #adam stanheight #saw movies #sawposting #saw franchise #chainshipping

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uhbasicallyjustmilex · 8 months

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quotes from alex turner's favourite authors that make me want to put my face through a wall:

"although i have never been an actor in the strict sense of the word, i have nevertheless, in real life, always carried about with me a small folding theatre" - vladimir nabokov, despair

"there is a terrible emptiness in me, an indifference that hurts," - albert camus

"there is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself" - raymond chandler

"at eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air" - vladimir nabokov

"no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge" - joseph conrad

"everything i've ever let go of has claw marks on it" - david foster wallace

"we're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. how else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?" - david foster wallace

"i turn over a new leaf every day, but the blots show through" - keith waterhouse

"the truth will set you free. but not until it's finished with you" - david foster wallace

"curiosity is insubordination in its purest form" - vladimir nabokov

"i'm me and nobody else; and whatever people think i am or say i am, that's what i'm not, because they don't know a bloody thing about me" - alan sillitoe

"we live as we dream; alone” - joseph conrad

"i liked, as i like still, to make words look self-conscious and foolish, to bind them by mock marriage of a pun, to turn them inside out, to come upon them unwares" - vladimir nabokov, despair

"whatever you get paid attention to for is never what you think is most important about yourself" - david foster wallace

"i continued to stir my tea long after it had done all it could with the milk” - vladimir nabokov, despair

"i remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind" - edgar allan poe

"all the information i have about myself is from forged documents" - vladimir nabokov, despair

"how odd i can have all this inside me and to you its just words" - david foster wallace

"you will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. you will never live if you're looking for the meaning of life" - albert camus

#all of these are from books/authors alex has explicitly mentioned being a fan of #god i wish he talked more about what he reads because i find the books and authors people are drawn to fascinating #it's such an insight into someone's psyche #then again maybe that's why he doesn't talk about it a lot - the books you love are quite a personal thing #but yeah #having read a few things i just thought i'd compile a little selection of quotes from his favourite books/authors that #idk - stuck out to me as being very alex #and it's safe to safe i have well and truly destroyed my own heart in the process #i also now absolutely have to read despair by vladimir nabokov #it's one of his that i haven't read but i had a little flick through it and oh my god i can totally see why alex is so into it #this list was almost entirely just quotes from that book #there are SO MANY that are just painfully alex #(in my mind anyway)#anyway #enough rambling from me #i might have to do a part two of this at some point #alex turner #arctic monkeys #lulu posts

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bethanydelleman · 1 year

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I feel like Jane Austen would get a good laugh from how many of her quotes are used in earnest that are meant in jest.

“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves... said the two-timing, attachment-faking Isabella Thorpe. -Northanger Abbey

“I declare, after all, there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!... No one made any reply. She then yawned again, threw aside her book (because she was only reading to attempt to impress a man) -Pride and Prejudice

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.... said the meddling busybody who wasn’t actually helping anyone at all. -Emma

The Caroline Bingley one is extra special because I see it in libraries:

“Learn to read, girls! It might catch you a wealthy husband.”

#jane austen #pride and prejudice #caroline bingley #ironic quotes #I'm sure this happens to other authors too #like all the quotes from Polonius that still float around as wisdom #check the context first #or don't #it's funnier this way

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threewordusername · 5 months

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i hope you find your happiness.

six-word poem.

d.b.a

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ninasdrafts · 5 months

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At times I think about how you always wanted to get away. To see the world, never stay in one place for too long. How you couldn't sit still. It should've given me pause. It never did. Instead I admired you for being so at ease in strange places, for being so comfortable meeting new people all the time. It never occurred to me to pity you, never occurred to me that you'd been forced to become this good at adapting because you didn't feel at home where others expected you to. Surrounded by your friends and family. When you were asked to settle down, you couldn't breathe. I asked you one too many times, I know. I hurt you worse than I would've if I'd given you time and space. And that's where we're different. I can't stand feeling lost at sea when it comes to you, water closing over my head, waves tossing me to shores unknown. But it was where you felt safe. Unmoored. Free. Even if we'd tried, we never would've stopped wanting different things from life. And yet I can't stop wondering what would have been if we had. What would have happened if I'd changed my mind and adapted to whatever you wanted, jumping right into the endless depths with you.

lost at sea / n.j.

#excerpt from a book i'll never write #spilled ink #writing #writing community #quote #authors on tumblr #prose #poetry #creative writing #lit #quotes #literature #writerscreed #love quotes

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24-0z · 2 years

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Quotes I've heard somewhere that remaind me of some aftg characters.

Kevin Day:

Then he said: don't you know? I am trying to make you great.

And I said: I do not want to be great, I want to be loved.

Neil Josten:

I don't want to just survive anymore, mom.

It hurts it hurts it hurts, mom.

Renee Walker:

And the earth looked at me and said: wasn't that fun?

And I replied: I'm sorry if I hurt anyone

Jean Monroe:

Am I supposed to be grateful to have survived this?

Andrew Minyard:

I'm not a whole person and I don't think I ever will be. Parts of me died in the house I grew up in and I visit them in dreams.

Seth Gordon:

Promise that you will sing about me.

Aaron Minyard:

I have searched for my mother's love in all the corners of the world.

Nicky Hemmick:

This is not a joke. I mouth

love me. love me

Neil Josten:

My mother did not mean to hate me, she didn't even know she hated me, and yet, I was hated. And I carried that hate with me through life with more pride than it perhaps deserved. A bruise of honor.

Nicky Hemmick:

I need a father, I need a mother, I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God but the sky is empty.

Dan Wilds:

In another universe, my window is open and I'm lying on my floor. I am 12 years old and nothing bad has ever happened to me

Andrew Minyard:

The truth is that no child can save their mother.

Andrew Minyard:

Now I know why I was drawn to you. We have the same darkness inside.

Neil Josten:

The word father rotted in my mouth.

Neil Josten:

I am not my mother's daughter.

I was not born from her womb.

I was born from her rage.

Andrew Minyard:

love is insane, you fell like you're always subtly asking "do you still love me even though I'm flawed?" and the answer just keeps being yes.

Neil Josten:

Tell me every terrible thing you ever did, and let me love you anyway.

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arrowmaker15 · 5 months

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(Father's Day, pt 4)

Bruce: Damian... Please tell me this isn't what I think this is.

Damian: I do not play games, Father.

Bruce:

Bruce: Why did you get me a birdcage with five Robins, the actual birds, in it?

Damian: You collect Robins. And you insist on all of them living here. Hence, one birdcage.

Bruce:

Bruce, muttering: I should've stopped at Jason...

#dc comics #incorrect quotes #incorrect dc quotes #batfam incorrect quotes #bruce wayne #damian wayne #father's day #Bruce collects Robins #except in this case #it's the actual bird #Bruce isn't having fun anymore #Bruce has lived with Alfred long enough to know that the man is trying so hard not to laugh #but is able to keep a perfect straight face #Alfred should have stopped them #he didn't #he's pretty sure Alfred helped on some of these #the birds had to have come from somewhere else and that isn't cheap #and the only other person who could authorize that for a minor that's not him in this house is legally Alfred

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belle-keys · 5 months

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“In ancient Rome, grief made men twirl in their thin, leather sandals and pirouette until their feet bled; in India, it walked widows onto pyres waiting for fire. The Persians gave the bodies of their deceased beloveds to dogs; the Egyptians buried them with servants. Grief will make you laugh at the funeral, weep over the cereal bowl; it will buzz your feet until they start dancing in the middle of the night. It’s grief that inspires the unlikeliest of bedfellows… Grief will pack your bag, quit your job, buy a white dress. It will make you say yes.”

- The Arsonists' City by Hala Alyan

#hala alyan #palestinian authors #palestinian writers #palestine #free palestine #from the river to the sea palestine will be free #grief #grief quotes #book quotes #marriage #marriage quotes #litfic

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im-queen-of-the-black-forest · 6 months

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The Chosen One

Copia: For your information, no, I did not wake up and choose violence today. *holds up a shoe that has very clearly been chewed on* I woke up and violence personally informed me I was ✨ the chosen one✨

#ghost band #shitghosting #incorrect ghost quotes #dewdrop ghoul #was it Mountain Swiss or Dew that chewed up the shoe?#not even the author knows #joke swiped from 1dropproductions on tiktok #mountain ghoul #swiss ghoul #papa copia

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apothecrowley · 11 months

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his need was to be loved and his tragic flaw was the belief that he was unlovable

#truly insane quote from the trent crimm authority himself mr. jimmy lance #trent crimm #ted lasso #ted lasso fanart #james lance #art

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