When I Was A Boy Of 14, My Father Was So Ignorant I Could Hardly Stand To Have The Old Man Around. But

“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”

— Mark Twain

I am a terrible combination of “whatever happens, happens” and “If everything doesn’t go according to plan, I will vaporize”

“Evil destroys even itself.”

— Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

“The most vital right is the right to love and be loved.”

— Emma Goldman, “The Tragedy of Woman’s Emancipation”, Anarchism and Other Essays

Goodbye Austen girl summer, hello Brontë girl fall