They didn't gave a damn about the lawn

"They said nothing and our parents said nothing, so we sensed how ancient they were, how accustomed to trauma, depressions, and wars. We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in, and for all their caretaking and bitching about crabgrass they didn't give a damn about lawns."

-The Virgin Suicides, Jeffrey Eugenides

Again, With Feeling

"You think you can just waltz in and assume things and because the great James Potter gives his blessing, it will be alright? You think I haven't watched and hoped and planned, that I just gave up straight away?"

"I - "

"Because that's just bullshit! Let me tell you if Remus even thought one romantic thought about me I would know, and I would be there making him love me!"

-Again With Feeling, McAbacus (fanfic)

Girls

· 'We could never understand why the girls cared so much about being mature, or why they felt compelled to compliment each other, but sometimes, after one of us had read a long portion of the diary out loud, we had to fight back the urge to hug one another and to tell each other how pretty we were. We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together.'

-The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

Contradiction

'We live in a contradiction: a brutal state of affairs, profoundly inegalitarian—where all existence is evaluated in terms of money alone—is presented to us as ideal. To justify their conservatism, the partisans of the established order cannot really call it ideal or wonderful. So instead, they have decided to say that all the rest is horrible. Sure, they say, we may not live in a condition of perfect Goodness. But we're lucky that we don't live in a condition of Evil. Our democracy is not perfect. But it's better than the bloody dictatorships. Capitalism is unjust. But it's not criminal like Stalinism. We let millions of Africans die of AIDS, but we don't make racist nationalist declarations like Milosevic. We kill Iraqis with our airplanes, but we don't cut their throats with machetes like they do in Rwanda, etc.'

-On Evil: An Interview with Alain Badiou

Unfortunate Coincidence

"By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying.
Lady make note of this --
One of you is lying."

-Unfortunate Coincidence by Dorothy Parker

Bloody Hell

"Bloody hell" he muttered, then smiled, because that was Ron's favorite swear. Then frowned because that was Ron's favorite swear. Then rolled over and try to ignore the tightening in his groin because that was Ron's favorite swear. (and one he absolutely did not on a daily basis imagine Ron moaning as Harry licked a wide trail down his sweat damp abs). "Bloody Hell there's more to the world than Ron bloody Weasley!"

-DeNile by Feonixis (fanfic)

Cassie

Cassie,

I'm shit with words, everything always comes out so crap. But I've been doing some thinking and everything is getting clearer. The thing is Cass, I've woken up this morning and the sun's shining through the window and it's making me think of you.

Cassie, it's not right, you hiding away in that clinic. You've got to get out in the world.Cassie, I don't care if you think you're odd, because I feel like singing when I see you. And you're beautiful. And I've been such a fucking chapstick this past few weeks. And all I want to do this morning is sit on top of Brandon Hill and hold you, and tell you how wonderful you are, and stick my hand down your knickers

and I love you.

Sid

-Sidney, Skins (S01E09)

The Shipping News

'Their silence comfortable. Something unfolding. But what? Not love, which wrenched and wounded. Not love, which came only once.'

-The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

Vanity

'Hermione is not vain on any account for her own self-nature will do the job for her, not her own hands. But as Pansy Parkinson sits there, Hermione thinks lustfully that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and oh how she wants to take that long mane of raven silk and strangle herself with it, because that would be the only way she could die happy.'

-Vanity by August Fai (Fanfic)

Unpredictable

"Change. It’s a wonderful thing. Look, you know how subatomic particles don’t obey physical laws? They act according to chance, chaos, coincidence. They run into each other in the middle of the universe somewhere and bang! Energy! We’re the same as that. That’s the great thing about the universe: unpredictable. That’s why it’s so much fun."

-Tony Stonem, Skins (S01E05)

Bright Star, would I were steadfast as thou art

BRIGHT star! would I were steadfast as thou art— Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature’s patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task 5 Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores, Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors— No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable, Pillow’d upon my fair love’s ripening breast, 10 To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever—or else swoon to death. -Bright Star! would I were steadfast thou art, John Keats

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Bloody minorities

-Simon Amstell, Grandma's House series 1 episode 2

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They're all real

"A stout, middle-aged man, with enormous owl-eyed spectacles, was sitting somewhat drunk on the edge of a great table, staring with unsteady concentration at the shelves of the books. As we entered he wheeled excitedly around and examined Jordan from head to foot.

'What do you think?' he demanded impetuously.

'About what?'

He waved his hand towards the bookshelves.

'About that. As a matter of fact you needn't bother to ascertain. I ascertained. They're real.'

'The books?'

He nodded.

'Absolutely real- have pages and everything. I thought they'd be a nice durable cardboard. Matter of fact, they're absolutely real. Pages and- Here! Lemme show you.'

Taking our scepticism for granted, he rushed to the bookcases and returned with Volume One of the 'Stoddard Lectures'.

'See!' he cried triumphantly. 'It's a bona-fied piece of printed matter. It fooled me. This fella's a regular Belasco*. It's a triumph. What thoroughness! What realism! Knew when to stop, too- didn't cut the pages. But what do you want? What do you expect?'"

-The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

*'David Belasco (1853-1931) was a broadway theatre producer renowned for the realism of his sets'

She's so high

She's blood, flesh and bone

No tucks or silicone
She's touch, smell, sight, taste and sound

But somehow I can't believe
That anything should happen
I know where I belong
And nothing's gonna happen
Yeah, yeah

'Cause she's so high...
High above me, she's so lovely
She's so high...
Like Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, or Aphrodite
She's so high...
High above me

First class and fancy free
She's high society
She's got the best of everything

What could a guy like me
Ever really offer?
She's perfect as she can be
Why should I even bother?

'Cause she's so high...
High above me, she's so lovely
She's so high...
Like Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, or Aphrodite
She's so high...
High above me

She comes to speak to me
I freeze immediately
'Cause what she says sounds so unreal

But somehow I can't believe
That anything should happen
I know where I belong
And nothing's gonna happen
Yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah

'Cause she's so high...
High above me, she's so lovely
She's so high...
Like Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, or Aphrodite
She's so high...
High above me

-She's so high, Tal Bachman

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Then wear the gold hat

'Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her;

If you can bounce high, bounce for her too,

Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing Lover

I must have you!"'

(Though really Fitzgerald made D'invilliers up)

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Fantastic Mr. Fox

"This Story's too predictable."

"Predictable? Really? Then, how does it end?"

"In the end, we all die. Unless you change."

-Mr. and Mrs. Fox, Fantastic Mr. Fox (film)

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City of Ashes

"You are mortal; you age; you die," the Queen said dismissively. "If that is not hell, pray tell me, what is?"

-City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare

Conscientious Objector

"I may not be very conscientious, but I do object"

-Bugsy, Valiant

Jesus had two dads

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What a lot of parties

'Oh Nina, what a lot of parties... Masked parties, Savage parties, Victorian parties, Greek parties, Wild West parties, Circus parties, parties where you have to dress as somebody else, almost naked parties in St. John's Wood, parties in flats and studios and houses and ships and hotels and nightclubs, in swimming baths and windmills. Dances in London so dull. Comic dances in Scotland and disgusting dances in the suburbs. All that succession and repetition of massed humanity. All those vile bodies. And now a party in a mental hospital...'

-Adam Fenwick-Symes, Bright Young Things 2003

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Going round and round

'You know all that time I was dotty I had the most awful dreams. I thought we were all driving round and round at a motor-race and none of us could stop. And there was an enormous audience composed entirely of gossip writers and gate-crashers and Archie Shwert! Bogus people all shouting at us to go faster and car after car kept crashing until I was left all alone driving and driving. And then I would crash and wake up.'

-Agatha, 'Bright Young Things' 2003

It's a Wild World

'Now that I've lost everything to you
You say you wanna start something new
And it's breakin' my heart you're leavin'
Baby, I'm grievin'
But if you wanna leave, take good care
I hope you have a lot of nice things to wear
But then a lot of nice things turn bad out there

Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world
It's hard to get by just upon a smile
Oh, baby, baby, it's a wild world
I'll always remember you like a child, girl

You know I've seen a lot of what the world can do
And it's breakin' my heart in two
Because I never wanna see you a sad girl
Don't be a bad girl
But if you wanna leave, take good care
I hope you make a lot of nice friends out there
But just remember there's a lot of bad and beware'

-Wild World, Cat Stevens

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We are greater than the sum of our parts

'But ultimately I do not believe that she was only matter. The rest of her must be recycled too. I believe now that we are greater than the sum of our parts. If you take Alaska's genetic code and you add her life experiences and the relationships she had with people, and then you take the size and shape of her body, you do not get her. There is something else entirely. There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed.'

-Looking For Alaska by John Green

If people were rain

- Looking For Alaska by John Green

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More Interesting

'They love their hair because they aren't smart enough to love something more interesting'

-Looking For Alaska by John Green

Nostalgia

'Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia'

-Looking For Alaska by John Green

(as told to him by his wife Sarah on their first date)

You Gotta Find Your Death Star

-Hutch, Fanboys

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The History Boys- Hector

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I could hardly pick anything else for my first post