“I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have
been changed several times since then”
— Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

slaughterhouse90210:

“People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”
— Albert Camus, The Fall

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.  ~Henry David Thoreau

I’d agree with everything except The Shining.  The book was so much better.

“The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.”
— Albert Camus, The Plague

“I could write a long list of things about myself that could probably be fixed. But even if I fixed them all, another list would probably crop up in no time at all. And where would it end? How would I know when I was all fixed?”

—Jami Attenberg, The Melting Season

Disney Princesses dressed as their nemesis.

Miriam loitered behind, alone. She did not fit in with the others; she could very rarely get into human relations with anyone: so her friend, her companion, her lover, was Nature. She saw the sun declining wanly. In the dusky, cold hedgerows were some red leaves. She lingered to gather them, tenderly, passionately. The love in her finger-tips caressed the leaves, the passion in her heart came to a glow upon the leaves.

-Sons and Lovers, Lawerence