December 2011
I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.
Joan Didion
I think a lot, but I don’t say much.
Anne Frank
She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.
Michael Ondaatje
I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticising, sanctioning and moulding my life, is too much of a daily event for me.
Anais Nin
I hate this feeling. Like I’m here, but I’m not. Like someone cares. But they don’t. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here.
Ellen Hopkins, Crank
As a child
I suppose
I was not quite
normal.
My happiest times were
when
I was left alone in
the house on a
Saturday.
Charles Bukowski
I don’t love him, and he definitely doesn’t love me. Still, he semi-fills a gaping black hole inside me. That place wants love, maybe even needs love, but love is something I’m pretty sure doesn’t exist.
Identical by Ellen Hopkins
When I was a girl I would look out my bedroom window at the caterpillars; I envied them so much. No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, they could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched.
Patch Adams
She’s like smoke: you think you’re seeing her clearly enough, but when you reach for her, there’s nothing there.
Ryū Murakami
I sometimes wonder what it would be like to have a real life: a boyfriend, a dog, to go to the same place every day. Maybe it’s less complicated, but I think I’d kill myself in frustration. I need tons of freedom to do anything creative.
Alison Mosshart
I am the only person I would like to know thoroughly
Oscar Wilde
He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
I beg your pardon I didn’t recognize you - I’ve changed a lot.
Oscar Wilde
I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.
Oscar Wilde
You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
When i watched you dancing that day, I saw something else. I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh, cruel world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go....