"I too am 39, turning 40 next year, and to celebrate am taking my first trip to Paris with my sister-in-law, who will be 50. I can honestly say that I look forward to getting older every year. Each year I feel a little more accomplished, a bit wiser and view myself and humanity with more compassion. There is a lot of negative press around ageing. But what we’re not told is how freeing it can be. I no longer place so much importance on how I am perceived by others."
Australia Vogue letters, January 2012
why ‘Glee’ is great.
Principle Figgins: Why, only last year a list was posted ranking McKinley’s ugliest gingers, and the perpetrator would have been expelled… had it not turned out to be a member of the faculty!
Sue Sylvester: I stand by that list.
"You think of the two types of aloneness you’ve known recently: this wonderful, sparkly, soul-refreshing type, and the despairing loneliness that sucks the breath from your life."
Nikki Gemmell, The Bride Stripped Bare (via quotesixty)
"You’ve got to do what you think is worth it. You can’t let any weird rules - no matter what they are - matter. You’ve got to make life your own. It’s one of the more heartbreaking lessons to learn but life is yours, it really is yours."
The beautiful Beth Ditto.
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism — it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen. As proof, let’s make an amazing thing happen right now."
"Prince William was almost lost for words when a six-year-old girl spoke up on Tuesday. “Did your mummy die?” she asked. William was taken aback, but bowed slightly and immediately replied: “Yes she did, it was pretty sad."
Prince William at a Redfern Community Centre.
"The opposite of “funny” is not “serious;” it’s “somber.” Humour is a matter of tone, of rhetorical style. Coleridge put it nicely, writing about Laurence Sterne: “The true comic is the blossom of the nettle."
Randy Cohen of The Ethicist.
"I knew this: there was only one of him in the world. One hour with him was denser than all the years spent with everybody else I had ever known. My instincts were not mistaken. My instincts had been with me as I crawled from the swamp; my brain only showed up later. It was my instinct I would trust. Even if it defied logic. Especially if it defied common sense. I wanted nothing to do with common. But extremely rare and precious speciality items often carry an extraordinary price. I knew this, too."
You Better Not Cry - Augusten Burroughs
tiresome:(via tinyparcels)
"I don’t want to get married. “Yes, you will — one day!” One day? Which day? No, please, specifically which day of my life do I wake up and — à propos of presumably fuck all — yearn to peel the socks from my husband’s rancid feet, crusted from his sweat, or wipe the stream of shit from a child’s arse, or run around a supermarket while children bash me in the face, or stab Lego bricks into my eyes, until I agree to buy Cheds?"
"A man should seek the service of a professional if he finds himself being dishonest to get what he wants. Do not let lust run rampant and wreak havoc in some woman’s life because you feel the need to sleep with her."
"Come rolling into town unaware of the power that you have over me & what am I to do with, hello-how-are-you? nothing’s ever said that should be…"
Teddy Thompson “Separate Ways”
"I feel that life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. That’s the two categories. The horrible are like, I don’t know, terminal cases and blind people, crippled. I don’t know how they get through life. It’s amazing to me. And the miserable is everyone else. So you should be thankful that you’re miserable, because that’s very lucky, to be miserable."
Woody Allen in Annie Hall
