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[sophie_lizzie]

You poor dear, dear thing. Look at you weltering in your misery. The extraordinary truth is that you want to stay there. Unlike so many of the young, you do not yearn for adulthood, pubs and car keys. You want to stay where you are, in the Republic of Pubescence, where feeling has primacy and pain is beautiful. And you know what ... ?

I think you are right.

(Stephen Fry's Letter to His 16-Year-Old Self)

[sophie_lizzie]

Better Than You island doesn’t exist. And if it does it’s full of idiots, looking over their shoulder for the next idiot to arrive.

(David Whitehouse)

[sophie_lizzie]

Once upon a time there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. And they grew next to each other. And every day the straight tree would look at the crooked tree and he would say, “You’re crooked. You’ve always been crooked and you’ll continue to be crooked. But look at me! Look at me!” said the straight tree. He said, “I’m tall and I’m straight.” And then one day the lumberjacks came into the forest and looked around, and the manager in charge said, “Cut all the straight trees.” And that crooked tree is still there to this day, growing strong and growing strange.

(Wrist-Cutters: A Love Story)

[sophie_lizzie]

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

(Nietzsche)

[sophie_lizzie]

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

(Dorothy Parker)