Christian Scientist Character Who’s Asked Why He Believes In God And Says ‘I Believe In What I Can

KINGS

July 18, 1998 — see The Complete Peanuts 1995-1998

oh to wear dark turtlenecks and oversized blazers, consume unhealthy amounts of coffee, study during rainy nights whilst the moon stares at you, go to long lost ruins of old castles with your friends and make poetry about your secret lover

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Crime and Punishment)

Me: I don't underline and highlight sentences in a book for nothing. I do that to reflect upon the important things and ideas later so I can better understand the core theme of the book and enrich my knowledge and perspective of life.

Also me: *underlines every time a character 'flung himself on to the sofa' in the Picture of Dorian Gray*

tag yourself: school subjects

english: cozy borrowed hoodies, rustling papers, “i can’t read”, thermos filled with tea, illegible notes in the margins, sleeping with shakespeare covering your face, daily journaling, doodling through lectures

math: shaky hands during tests, the familiar feel of a calculator in your palm, dead silence when you work, flipping through the textbook, easing through problem sets, swapping pens for pencils, wistfully looks out the window

history: summaries of bills and acts on chart paper, the scratch of sharpies, eternal group projects, granola bars hidden under desks, hand cramps from writing, squinting at the board, being told off for talking to your friends

art: paint stained jeans, braiding your friends’ hair, lightning-quick gesture drawings, rivers of sunlight in the classroom, headphones in, snacks strewn around you, snapping charcoal (accidentally!!), wet clay on your fingers

foreign languages: hours of conjugating charts, subtitled films, loopy gel pens, mumbled presentations, repeated listening exercises, forgetting vocabulary immediately, the sound of someone writing with chalk, late breakfasts

gym/health: rewatching mean girls for the 100th time, iced coffee, morning runs under the gentle sun, oversized t-shirts, squeaky floors under sneakers, gossip on the bleachers, avoiding the school pool, rolling up your shorts

science: high ponytails, rapid memorization that fades after the test, frowning while you work, old classroom TVs with dated science programs, whispers and giggles between powerpoint slides, searching for not-gross lab goggles (and not finding them)

Do you ever just have a breakdown over the fact that there are too many books to read, too many movies to see, too many poems to memorize, too many plays to watch, too many artworks to stare at and that you will never be able to consume all of it or is that just me

hanako is an annoying brat and i love it

Some of My Favorite Ravenclaw Quotes:

Wit beyond measure is a man’s greatest treasure. (Obviously…)

Knowledge is a weapon. I intend to be formidably armed.

I’m not crazy, my reality is just different then yours.

When in doubt, go to the library.

The mind is it’s own palace, and in itself it can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

To be insane is to be sane with just a little more knowledge of what’s going on.

I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.

Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.

I think, therefore, I am dangerous.

Never be so focused on what your looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

have we gotten to the point where we can accept that dark academia tumblr is just the classic lit fandom or are we not ready for that yet