Prompt Side Story

I'm Jill, a 22 year-old stage manager tackling the city that never sleeps, but I left my heart in Italy. Currently pursuing my MFA in Stage Management.

I am a/an: theatre nerd, feminist, Potterhead, Whovian, Gleek, Gemini, student, Tribute, writer, Slytherin, and dreamer.

I love coffee, Emma Watson, Jesus, chinchillas, Pitch Perfect, quirky office supplies, Percy Weasley, good books, meaningful art, thrift stores, musicals, Clémence Poésy, cover songs, The Big Bang Theory, Chris Rankin, Fleur Delacour, opera, puppies, late nights with good friends, Criminal Minds, Naya Rivera, PostSecret, equality, Grey's Anatomy, Neil Patrick Harris, the smell of new books, Karen Gillian, campfires, Disney, ink-stained fingers, Marcus Flint, Rebel Wilson, Skins, Princess Tiana, mixed drinks, Oliver Wood, Once Upon A Time, the smell of old books, How I Met Your Mother, and intelligent people.

I believe that anything can be accomplished through hard work, that true love does exist, that God don't make no trash, that it's better to do the right thing and be hated than to sit idly by, and that caffeine is a miracle drug.
Recent Tweets @

On the corner of 68 and Broadway, there is a young homeless man who frequents the area. This afternoon, two evangelical Bible-thumpers stood next to him, shouting at passerby to accept Jesus so they don’t go to hell. They were both pointedly ignoring the gentleman with the “homeless and hungry” sign. 

Don’t you dare shout at me to convert while you ignore those in need. I’d rather spend my time with those who practice goodwill than those who simply preach it.

Everything is all right, and everybody has to do exactly what he does.

Billy Pilgrim

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

I look at you sometimes and I get a funny feeling that you’re just full of secrets.

Valencia

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

That’s one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones.

The Tralfamadorian Translator

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. “My God, my God - ” I said to myself, “It’s the Children’s Crusade.

The English Colonel

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

What part of ‘liberation for women’ is not for you? Is it freedom to vote? The right not to be owned by the man you marry? The campaign for equal pay? Did all that good shit get on your nerves? Or were you just drunk at the time of the survey?
Author Caitlin Moran, commenting on the statistic that only 29% of American women identify as feminists (via push-alchemy)C (via feminatheist)

(via backstageleft)

I don’t need your approval; I have my own.

People need to find something better to do with themselves and their time

How nice - to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and billy didn’t really like life at al.
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

Honestly, I don’t know. Whatever it was, it was something watched with a lot of people

Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because the moment simply is.
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five