you asked me for my sacrifice, and I am winterborn

In the fury of this darkest hour we will be the light

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astheplanetsbend:

i wish that i had a little bar above my shoulder like characters do in video games, but instead of showing my health or energy it would measure my human interaction limit. and once it filled up everyone would know that i had maxed out on socialization and would know to leave me alone to recharge. 　

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so long as there shall exist a social condemnation, which, in the face of civilization, complicates a destiny that is divine with human fatality; so long as the three problems of the age—the degradation of man by poverty, the ruin of women by starvation, and the dwarfing of childhood by night—are not solved; so long as social asphyxia shall be possible; so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.

            —preface to les misérables, by victor hugo

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I hate learning to drive.

I just feel so clumsy and awkward and useless and I don’t feel like I’ll ever be able to do it properly and easily.

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I was very young and rather silly; but [Robespierre] gave me such good advice that, young as I was, I enjoyed listening to him. If I was upset about anything, I used to tell him about it. He was never censorious, but a friend, the best brother a girl could have, a model of virtue. He had a great regard for my father and mother, and we all loved him dearly.
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fuckyeahhistorycrushes: Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross Clara got her start, like many women of her time, as a school teacher. She organized schools in towns where there had been none and gained such a reputation that she became a well sought after instructor.  When the Civil War broke out, many of the boys who were once her students ended up on the battlefields, which drove her to take up the work of nursing though her only prior experience had been tending to her ill brother as a child.  Clara helped untold numbers of soldiers and earned the nickname Angel of the Battlefield, often charging out into the fray to tend to the wounded.  Bright, stubbornly independent and a total BAMF, Clara once turned down a teaching job because the school would not pay her the same amount as the male teacher who preceded her, stating: “I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man’s work for less than a man’s pay.” I loved her so, so much when I was in elementary school!

fuckyeahhistorycrushes:

Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross

Clara got her start, like many women of her time, as a school teacher. She organized schools in towns where there had been none and gained such a reputation that she became a well sought after instructor. 

When the Civil War broke out, many of the boys who were once her students ended up on the battlefields, which drove her to take up the work of nursing though her only prior experience had been tending to her ill brother as a child. 

Clara helped untold numbers of soldiers and earned the nickname Angel of the Battlefield, often charging out into the fray to tend to the wounded. 

Bright, stubbornly independent and a total BAMF, Clara once turned down a teaching job because the school would not pay her the same amount as the male teacher who preceded her, stating: “I may sometimes be willing to teach for nothing, but if paid at all, I shall never do a man’s work for less than a man’s pay.”

I loved her so, so much when I was in elementary school!

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