tinyghosts:

“But I do feel strange-almost unearthly. I’ll never get used to being alive. It’s a mystery. Always startled to find I’ve survived.”

— John Steinbeck, from Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters(viawatchoutforintellect)

Recently read “Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck. The fact that corporations still throw away so much perfectly good food is not only infuriating but down right evil. This book is still relevant nearly 100 years later.

     “I don’t very much believe in blood,” said Samuel. “I think when a man finds good or bad in his children he is seeing only what he planted in them after they cleared the womb.”
     “You can’t make a race horse of a pig.”
     “No,” said Samuel, “but you can make a very fast pig.”

- John Steinbeck, East of Eden

So how ‘bout “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck?

Gotta love hefty doses of ableism and non disabled people defending it because “it was for his own good” and “it was a different time”. Not to mention the racism and sexism! I hate this book and will fight people over it.

John Steinbeck [HC] {sfw}

Having a crush headcanons.

this man can suck my nuts for hurting sweet yumeno—

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✧ When he has a crush on someone, he’s rather fairly open about it. He’s always talking to Lovecraft about anything and everything, pretty loudly, too so it isn’t really a surprise when they figure that they’re the one he has a crush on.

✧ He becomes five times nicer to them than he already was. For example, if he sees them heading towards a door that is closed, he’ll go out of his way and run to open it. He gets skittish and tries to act more gentlemanly in hopes he can capture their fancy.

✧ Although he goes out of his way to do many kind gestures for them, he’s actually afraid to talk to them if he hasn’t already. He’s usually pretty open and carefree about who exactly he is talking to, but when it comes to them, he’s terrified. If he does talk to them already, all he’ll wanna do is listen without interrupting them (which he actually does a lot).

✧ He doesn’t get jealous easily, but at the same time it doesn’t take much for him to get jealous—or in this case, envious of another person (male). If his crush is simply standing next to another male, he doesn’t mind. Talking, he’s fine. But the moment another person’s hands or body part is on you, he’ll go on and interrupt. Whether or not he’s close with them, he’ll go and intervene by striking a conversation (even if it’s random, he’s absolutely aware that things are awkward but he wants the touching to stop).

✧ He finds that his crush pops up in his mind quite often. Not too often that he’s always daydreaming about them, but enough that he talks to Lovecraft about them, trying to get his opinion on them (to which Lovecraft responds, “They’re great…I want to sleep now.”).

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✧ April 1st, 2019 ✧

I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one… . Humans are caught—in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil… . There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well—or ill?

John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.”

thehopefulquotes:

“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”

—John Steinbeck, East of Eden