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)