December 2009
Don’t lies eventually lead to the truth? And don’t all my stories, true or...
– Albert Camus
Curiosity can bring guts out of hiding at times, maybe even get them going. But...
– Haruki Murakami
I always knew I would spend a lot of time alone, no one would understand me....
– CocoRosie
Listen. There are times when life calls out for a change. A transition. Like the...
– Paris Je T’aime
Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets again,...
– Dave Eggers, How The Water Feels To Fishes
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or...
– Oscar Wilde
I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think...
– Kurt Vonnegut
Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem...
– Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
And it is true what you said, that I live like a hermit in my own head. But when...
– Death Cab for Cutie
I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love. I am...
– Sylvia Plath
It’s everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so — I don’t know — not...
– J.D. Salinger
im leaving in the morning... so lets not be shy...
We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heros or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it’s our job to invent something better.
To deny the reality of things is to miss their reality; to assert the emptiness...
– Hsin Hsin Ming
and theres too much going on. but its calm under...
i have never been so insulted in all my life
i could swallow the seas to wash...
I always tell the girls, never take it seriously. Never take it seriously, you...
– penny lane
I smoke your brand of cigarettes And pray that you might give me a call I lie around in bed all day just staring at the walls Hanging round bars at night wishing I had never been born And give myself to anyone who wants to take me home
sorrow drips into your heart through a pinhole
just like a faucet that leaks...
I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It...
– Diana Gabaldon, Dragonfly in Amber
But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she...
– Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut
Look - you should be happy for me.Maybe it is love, as much as it can be, for...
She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of...
– Jerry Spinelli (Stargirl)
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
– T.S. Eliot