i'm drawn to my friends. it's been a curse for me. i was that idiot who fell in love with everbody and just wanted every one of them separately to myself at some point. i knew at a young age that i needed good friends because they were going to become everything to me... my problem was that i love these people way too much and it fucked me up.

- Kevin Drew

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

- Sir Winston Churchill

“Build a good name. Keep your name clean. Don’t make compromises, don’t worry about making a bunch of money or being successful. Be concerned about doing good work. Protect your work and if you build a good name, eventually that name will be its own currency. Life is like a roller coaster ride, it is never going to be perfect. It is going to have perfect moments and rough spots, but it’s all worth it.”

-Patti Smith

1982

20s

Being in your young twenties is a lot like hanging off the edge of a cliff. When you're hanging off the cliff, you can't afford to panic. You just focus on not dying and hoisting yourself up to the secure ledge. Once safe, on the ledge, you freak out and can't imagine how it was that you survived. That's what being a young-20-something is. No secure career path. No secure housing. No secure relationship. No secure ownership over much of anything worthwhile. No idea where you will be in two months, let alone two years. No secure footing. Not even a ledge in sight. When we are thirty (god willing, by thirty), we are going to look back on this time and wonder "How did I not fall to my death!?" Until then, we drink!

- Rachel Ryan

wonder what this smells like?