calantheandthenightingale:

“Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit.

“Sometimes,” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful.  “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.”

“Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?”

“It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse.  “You become.  It takes a long time.  That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept.  Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby.  But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”

— from The Velveteen Rabbit (or How Toys Become Real) by Margery Williams, 1922

amandaonwriting:

On life’s constant little limitations

Calvin: You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.

On expectations

Calvin: Everybody seeks happiness! Not me, though! That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn’t good…

kaminmh:

To all those Pixar moments that have made me who I am.

“Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language” - Walt Disney

(via allonsyblue, willgoesrawr)

incendiochevaliere:

sagekiller:

geekmystic:

intrigued-by-llamas:

I am convinced Mary Poppins is the Doctor.

Or the Doctor’s and River’s daughter.  Hmm…  Plot bunnies…

This…this is an idea O.O

Her purse is bigger on the inside…

DoctorxHermione?

All I know is she hangs out with Ms. Frizzle and Susan (from Discworld)

neplusultradream:

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so. — Noam Chomsky

heathyr:

• “Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator.”
• “It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up…

sunsetlullaby:

lolsherlock69:

MOFFAT!

I’d feel accomplished as well.

regeneratingman:

How long have they been here?

As long as there has been something in the corner of your eye or creaking in your house or voices through a wall.