Books, coffee & rainy days

“There was no such thing as society and, even if there was, I most certainly had nothing to do with it.”

“Sometimes you don’t see that the best thing that’s ever happened to you is sitting there, right under your nose.”

ok hear me out here:

odd socks and washed out wide leg grey/blue jeans

procrastinating until the very last minute

an essay is not an essay unless it’s at least twice as long as it needs to be and contains a vast amount of tangents and rants that are very off topic

cute comfy knitted jumpers over old band t-shirts 

buying the band t-shirt only because it was cool but you’ve never actually heard of the band before so you listen to them through your headphones until 5am so you can be an (exhausted) expert by the next day and can confidently say “wait…you’ve never heard of ____ before??”

being able to quote ‘the catcher in the rye’ and ‘the outsiders’

watching kickflips on youtube when you should be working

having the most extensive vocabulary but “fuck” is still your only adverb

upbeat, easily excited, quick one liners, sarcasm and loud laughter

definitely read Roald Dahl as a child

playing a complex form of chess with your friends which has rules no one else gets

“well actually I think you’ll find that earlier today my knight and rook launched a rebellion and overthrew the monarchy, this is now a representative democracy. kill my king, save us the effort, VIVA LA REVOLUTION”

extensive day dreaming 

watching ‘Blade Runner’ and ‘Kill Your Darlings’

not necessarily being top of the class (the chaotic essays don’t help with that) but knowing a weirdly large amount about random topics

record player on quietly at 2am, dancing gently on your own in your room - letting yourself be still and melancholy now that no one can see

skateboarding to class and waltzing in late with a massive grin on your face, winking at the teacher

only sending texts in lowercase

notes and books sprawled all over your bedroom floor “it’s not messy because *I* can tell you exactly where everything is”

never being able to find anything

losing biro lids 

writing notes and essays on those yellow paper pads