“We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.”

― Jonathan Gottschall

"Men always say that as the defining compliment, don’t they? She’s a cool girl. Being the Cool Girl means I am a hot, brilliant, funny woman who adores football, poker, dirty jokes, and burping, who plays video games, drinks cheap beer, loves threesomes and anal sex, and jams hot dogs and hamburgers into her mouth like she’s hosting the world’s biggest culinary gang bang while somehow maintaining a size 2, because Cool Girls are above all hot. Hot and understanding. Cool Girls never get angry; they only smile in a chagrined, loving manner and let their men do whatever they want. Go ahead, shit on me, I don’t mind, I’m the Cool Girl.

Men actually think this girl exists. Maybe they’re fooled because so many women are willing to pretend to be this girl."

-Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

Saul Leiter

Alaska Young, Looking for Alaska

Banned for: strong language, 

drug use and sexually explicit situations. 

Harry Potter, Harry Potter series

Banned for: Promoting witchcraft 

and un-Christian values.

Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye

Banned for: Strong language, sexual references

 and for encouraging rebellion.