Waking up with a phone is like trees seeing the sunlight. It would be like drinking poison but dont taste the bitterness of the water if I woke up didnt see the tree - Quy Mai

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Here's what's not beautiful about it: from here, you can't see the rust or the cracked paint or whatever, but you can tell what the place really is.

You can see how fake it all is.

It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic.

It's a paper town.

I mean, look at it, Q: look at all those culs-de-sac, those streets that turn in on themselves, all the houses that were built to fall apart.

All those paper people living in their paper houses, burning the future to stay warm.

All the paper kids drinking beer some bum bought for them at the paper convenience store.

Everyone demented with the mania of owning things.

All the things paper-thin and paper-frail.

And all the people, too.

I've lived here for eighteen years and I have never once in my life come across anyone who cares about anything that matters.

Paper Towns, John Green

Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I goTo heal my heart and drown my woeRain may fall, and wind may blowAnd many miles be still to goBut under a tall tree will I lieAnd let the clouds go sailing by

J.R.R. Tolkien

"Verily there is no 'savage nation' that is more absurdly barbarous than the Christian World. They that go naked and drink water and live upon roots are like Adam, or Angels in comparison of us." Thomas Traherne

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That God who made man provided him food and drink for the sake of preserving his life and not for giving him pleasure, one can see very well from this: when food is performing its real function, it does not produce pleasure for man, that is in the process of digestion and assimilation.

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