I ain’t got nothing. I’ve got nothing.
In time, in time they tell me, I’ll not feel so bad. I don’t want time to heal me. There’s a reason I’m like this.
I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won’t smooth you away.
I can’t say goodbye.

China Miéville, The Scar (p. 568)

Stop looking for happiness in the same place you lost it.

Unknown (via seyttan)

Needed to hear thisssss

If the Gilbert, Arizona, school board does decide to go ahead with a stealth plan to start ripping the pages out of science textbooks… I think we’ve got it covered. High school kids of Arizona, if they do steal the stuff out of your books, ArizonaHonorsBiology.com is where you can get it again.

Arizona may be conservative, but Arizona, you are still part of the United States, and you can’t pretend some parts of biology don’t exist because they make you feel oogy. You can try, but you cannot get away with it.

Rachel Maddow expertly trolls Tea Partiers who want to censor Arizona sex ed  (via micdotcom)

Gods and fuck,” he growled in his graveyard whisper. The councilors were silent instantly, and aghast. He stood and spread out his arms. “I have been listening to you for hours,” he hissed, “spewing your trite horseshit. Platitudes and desperations. You are ineffectual.” He made the words sound like a soul-blasting curse. “You are failures. You are pointless. Get off my boat.

The Brucolac, The Scar (p. 229) by China Miéville.

Sometimes Garwater ships would prowl the coastal settlements of Bas-Lag committing wordstorms, and the pirates would rampage from house to house, seizing every book and manuscript they found. All for Booktown, the Clockhouse Spur.

China Miéville, The Scar (p. 100)

I’ve never seen any life transformation that didn’t begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own bullshit.

Elizabeth Gilbert (via liquid-diamonds-flowing)

Blind obedience to everything in buttons. Hitherto, the German has had the blessed fortune to be exceptionally well governed; if this continues, it will go well with him. When his troubles will begin will be when by any chance something goes wrong with the governing machine.

Jerome K. Jerome on the German attitude towards civic responsibility at the end of the 19th Century.