All I wanna do is get high by the beach

What have they done to us? We are their creatures

“what have they done to us? we are their creatures”

I’m this blond, blue-eyed woman who you can be fooled into thinking is quite safe but is actually rather dangerous.

We live in a society and I believe in equality of race and sex and gender. We should all be open and generous and kind to each other.

We have a couple of house rules, though. You can’t use the front door; you have to climb in through the back window. No personal phone conversations. If you ever speak to me in Spanish, please use the formal “usted.” And no electricity after 6:00 PM. A couple more rules: if you ever watch a sad movie, you have to wear mascara so we can see whether or not you’ve been crying. There’s no noise allowed on Mondays. And no TV after breakfast.

feminist attire i made for the women’s march on san diego today ‼‼‼

— The Secret History (1992)

And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them from the fire, and sought them when they were lost, and tried to preserve them and save them while passing them along literally from hand to hand, singing out brilliantly from the wreck of time to the next generation of lovers, and the next.

“Isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty? Those first images that crack your heart wide open and you spend the rest of your life chasing, or trying to recapture, in one way or another?”

The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt (2013)

You fail to connect actions to their consequences.

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