July 24, 2008
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the last shadow puppets - meeting place (live on xpn)

love their voices.

ben, discussing free obama pins

  • ben: meh...I might get one.
  • ben: free stuff is never really free
  • ben: see, look...I have to wear it, according to them
  • ben: that's not free
  • ben: that's like selling a piece of my body
  • ben: to barack obama...
  • ben: okay, I'm in
We wear shirts. No one wants to see your cellulose, Pete Wentz. No one would know if Jared Followill had a six pack. A lot of girls would know. But you wouldn’t.
Jared Followill. Hilarious.
Then I thought, boy, isn’t that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.
Sharon Creech, Absolutely Normal Chaos

“There’s something about north,” he said, “something that sets it apart from all other directions. A person who is heading north is not making any mistake, in my opinion.”

“That’s the way I look at it,” said Stuart. “I rather expect that from now on I shall be traveling north to the end of my days.”

E.B. White, Stuart Little
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E.B. White
You know what? You’re an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it’s gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.

Harriet the Spy (via jackieheartsb) (via unicornology)

i wanted to be her when i was 10.