January 2010
1 post
“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....
December 2009
9 posts
“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...
“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
November 2009
1 post
“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...
October 2009
5 posts
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
I don't want you to go. I'll eat you up I love you...
- KW, Where the Wild Things Are
August 2009
6 posts
I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It’s just that the translations have gone wrong.
- John Lennon
“ If you’re so prone to accidents and misunderstandings you may accidently misinterpret honesty for selfishness. We’re two human beings. Individually. With inherent interest in each other and how we relate. If you’re still prone to accidents and misunderstandings you won’t understand me or my motivation for being alone”
- American Football
The worst crime is faking it.
- Kurt Cobain
Let your joy scream across the pain.
- Ezbeth Wilder
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
It’s so curious: one can resist tears and ‘behave’ very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer… and everything collapses.
- Colette
July 2009
6 posts
Change is the only constant.
- Proverb
Maybe we like the pain. Maybe we’re wired that way. Because without it, I don’t know; maybe we just wouldn’t feel real. What’s that saying? Why do I keep hitting myself with a hammer? Because it feels so good when I stop.
- Meredith Grey, Grey’s Anatomy
I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like a black shade. Only for me, the long perspective of shades that set off one box from the next day had suddenly snapped up, and I could see day after day after day glaring ahead of me like a white, broad, infinitely desolate avenue.
- Sylvia Plath
Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you. You just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
- Bob Marley
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
- Albert Camus
June 2009
16 posts
You are the smell before rain, you are the blood in my veins.
- Brand New
You don’t have to be blood to be family.
- Throwdown
Nothing gold can stay.
- Robert Frost
The opposite of love isn’t hate, it’s indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
- Kahlil Gibran
It’s not easy. That’s the point.
- Anonymous
Heaven’s not a place that you go when you die, it’s that moment in life when you actually feel alive.
- The Spill Canvas
The difference between friendship and love is how much you can hurt each other.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they...
I really just want to be this warm yellow light that pours over everyone that I love.
- Conor Oberst
People so seldom say I love you, and then it’s either too late or love goes. So when I tell you I love you, it doesn’t mean I know you’ll never go, only that I wish you didn’t have to.
- Unknown
There isn’t any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolism that people say is shit. What goes beyond is what you see beyond what you know.
- Ernest Hemingway
That’s the beauty of music. They can’t take it away from you.
- The Shawshank Redemption
It’s amazing the difference a bit of sky can make.
- Shel Silverstein
So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.
- The Perks of Being A Wallflower