la vie en rose

Magical Thinking:
[maj′ikəl] /think·ing/ (thingk´ing)
The inaccurate belief that one's thoughts, words or actions will cause or prevent a specific outcome that does not demonstrate a realistic relationship between cause and effect.
Tue Dec 20

I liked looking on at other people in crucial situations. If there was a road accident or a street fight or a baby pickled in a jar for me to look at, I’d stop and look so hard I never forgot it.

I certainly learned a lot of things I never would have learned otherwise this way, and even when they surprised me or made me sick I never let on, but pretended that’s the way I knew things were all the time.

The Bell Jar by Silvia Plath (via cgjake)