QUOTEWORTHY

“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behaviour. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them—if you want to. Just as some day, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.”

- J.D. Salinger

“So much of the language of love was like that: you devoured someone with your eyes, you drank in the sight of him, you swallowed him whole. Love was substance, broken down and beating through your bloodstream.”

- Jodi Picoult (Nineteen Minutes)

“There’s always going to be bad stuff out there. But here’s the amazing thing — light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can’t stick the dark into the light.” 
— Jodi Picoult (Change of Heart)

All time is all time.  It does not change.  It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations.  It simply is.  Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

- Kurt Vonnegut

The heart is the only broken instrument that works.

- T.E. Kalem

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

- Anaïs Nin

Just remember, the same as a spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close you follow the jumps: Continued on page whatever. No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn’t experience it all. There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention. Well, get used to that feeling. That’s how your whole life will feel some day. This is all practice. None of this matters. We’re just warming up.

- Chuck Palahnuik

“She’d only loved two things; the first was her long dark hair.  The second was how easily she could cut it off and not feel a thing.”

- 500 Days of Summer

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

- Agatha Christie

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

- Robert Frost

“I’ve met God across his long walnut desk with his diplomas hanging on the wall behind him, and God asks me, “Why?”. Why did I cause so much pain? Didn’t I realize that each of us is a sacred, unique snowflake of special, unique specialness? Can’t I see how we’re all manifestations of love? I look at God behind his desk, taking notes on a pad, but God’s got this all wrong. We are not special. We are not crap or trash, either. We just are. We just are, and what happens just happens. And God says, “No, that’s not right.” Yeah. Well. Whatever. You can’t teach God anything.”

- Chuck Palahnuik

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We laugh and laugh, and nothing can ever be sad, no one can be lost, or dead, or far away: right now we are here, and nothing can mar our perfection, or steal the joy of this perfect moment.”
- The Time Traveler’s Wife

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.
- David Byrne