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The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse. Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual. it was difficult to come back.
- Ian McEwan, Atonement
   
   
“But how can you keep track of the rest of the world? Sometimes I can hardly keep track of myself.”
- Stargirl (Jerry Spinelli)
   
   
   
"The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye."
-Winston Churchill
   
Time passes. Even when it seems impossible. Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. It passes unevenly, in strange lurches and dragging lulls, but pass it does. Even for me.
- Scrubs
   
Whatever comes, cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.
- Sara Crewe, A Little Princess
   
   
" I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone."
- Jonathan Safran Foer
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
-The Twits
   
"I’m a supporter of gay rights. And not a closet supporter either. From the time I was a kid, I have never been able to understand attacks upon the gay community. There are so many qualities that make up a human being… by the time I get through with all the things that I really admire about people, what they do with their private parts is probably so low on the list that it is irrelevant."
- Paul Newman
   
"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."
- C.S. Lewis
   
"I have a friend who went to Uganda a few summers ago with her only intention being to “learn how to love.” It changed her life. Another friend spends extended periods of his time fasting and praying at a monastery in the woods. He’s one of the most spiritually-connected guys I know. Traveling is how I reconnect with God; it’s how I move beyond apathy and get back in tune with a Creator whose heart bleeds for a broken creation."
- Jeff Goins
  
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"There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own."
- Katherine Anne Porter
   
No, I'm not Jesus, but I'm more than a man
I'll never grow older, lonely or sad
Still I'm never pleased
From the corners until
I wake up walking as careful can be
Careful to miss out on all that I see
- Portugal, The Man, Never Pleased
When I lay me down, will you still be around?
When they put you six feet underground,
will the big bad beautiful moon be around?
- Cat Power, The Moon
   
   
"We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will cushion the blow. But the future is always changing. The future is the home of our deepest fears and wildest hopes. But one thing is certain when it finally reveals itself. The future is never the way we imagined it."
- Meredith Grey, Grey's Anatomy
   
"The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen."
- Frank Lloyd Wright
   
   
It's your lipstick, it just blankets your honest eyes and your glances,
only glimpse too all the secrets that you hide. You're so contagious,
and I'm longing for your taste. And it's all coming back to me.
- Green River Ordinance, Catch Me On Your Way Back Down
   
   
   
I can feel them come back around
The slow migration of our hearts
Back to our empty chests
When we know there's nothing left to win back
Our love picks up slowly in the night
It slides across dirty bedroom smiles
Lift up your head so the sun can catch your eyes
- Tilly and the Wall, In Two Glasses of Wine
“In the real dark night of the soul it is always three o' clock in the morning, day after day.”
- F. Scott Fiztgerald
   
   
"No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings."
- William Blake
   
"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.”
- Norman Cousins
“Hollywood amuses me. Holier-than-thou for the public and unholier-than-the-devil in reality”.
- Grace Kelly
   
   
I'd swim across lake Michigan
I'd sell my shoes
I'd give my body to be back again
In the rest of the room
To be alone with you
- Sufjan Stevens, To Be Alone With You
   
   
This story's old but it goes on and on until we disappear,
Calm me and let me taste the salt you breathed while you were underneath,
I am the one who haunts your dreams of mountains sunk below the sea,
I spoke the words but never gave a thought to what they all could mean,
I know that this is what you want, a funeral keeps both of us apart.
You know that you are not alone, I need you like water in my lungs.
- Brand New, Play Crack the Sky
   
“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing."
- Thomas Henry Huxley
   
And I'll sit and wonder
Of every love that could've been.
If I'd only thought of something charming to say.
- Death Cab for Cutie, The Sound of Settling
Dearest Cecilia,
The story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume. I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame.
- Robbie Turner, Atonement
   
   
“I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.”
- Brittany Renée
“I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams.”
- D. H. Lawrence
   
   
And you, you knew the hands of the devil
And you, kept us awake with wolf teeths
Sharing different heartbeats in one night
- José González, Heartbeats
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| Milk was very good. Sean is inspiring, Emile is adorable, Diego is crazy and sad, and James is . . . James.
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"Well, yes, ma'dam, I do . . . I mean, I got everything I need right here with me. I got air in my lungs, a few blank sheets of paper. I mean, I love waking up in the morning not knowing what's gonna happen or, who I'm gonna meet, where I'm gonna wind up. Just the other night I was sleeping under a bridge and now here I am on the grandest ship in the world having champagne with you fine people. I figure life's a gift and I don't intend on wasting it. You don't know what hand you're gonna get dealt next. You learn to take life as it comes at you . . . to make each day count."
- Jack, Titanic
   
   
It's become just like a chemical stress
Tracing the lines in my face for
Something more beautiful than is there
I've barely been gone
- Rilo Kiley, My Slumbering Heart
   
   
“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.”
- Charles Dickens
   
I'm not afraid of the black man running
He's got it right, he's got a better life coming
I don't care what the captain said
I fold it right at the top of my head
I lost my sight and the state packs in
I follow my heart and it leads me right to Jackson
- Sufjan Stevens, Jacksonville
   
"It was like falling in a hole and it keeps getting bigger and bigger, you can't get out. And then all of a sudden it's inside you, it is you, and you're trapped, and it's all over."
- Judith Guest, Ordinary People
I just poured my heart out
There's bits of it on the floor
And I take what's left of it and rinse it under cold water
And call him up for more
And I say 'Baby, yes I feel stupid to call you, but I'm lonely
And I don't think you meant it when you said you couldn't love me
And I thought maybe if I kissed the way you do you'd feel it too'
And he said 'I'm sorry'
- Maria Mena, Sorry
   
   
"I like too many things and get all confused and hung up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."
- Jack Kerouac, On The Road
"I'm like a bad tempered prom queen at a homecoming dance, and I claim I'm not excited with my life any more. So I blame this town, this job, these friends. The truth is it's myself. By the time I get things figured out, I've change the whole dang plan. Talking shit about a pretty sunset, blanketing opinions I’ll probably regret soon. I've changed my mind so much I can’t even trust it. I’ve changed me so much I can’t even trust myself.”
- Modest Mouse, Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset
   
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
- C. S. Lewis
"Staying home alone on a Friday. Flat on the floor looking back. On old love. Or lack thereof. After all the crushes are faded, and all my wishful thinking was wrong. I'm jaded. I hate it."
- John Mayer, A Love Song for No One
   
   
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what they had to teach; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
- Henry David Thoreau, Walden
   
   
"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become."
- The Buddha
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| This gives me something to do after school.
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"For what it’s worth, it’s never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit . . . start whenever you want . . . you can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that stop you. I hope you feel things that you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life that you’re proud of and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."
- The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
I can see a lot of life in you.
I can see your bed and make it too.
And I think the dress looks nice on you.
Yes, I can see a lot of life in you.
- Sufjan Stevens, Dress Looks Nice On You
   
   
   
"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing but burn, burn, burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'"
- Jack Kerouac
"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And of course stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand."
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
   
   
   
"There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be. And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors."
- Tennessee Williams
"Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
- Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit
   
   
I can't explain the state that I'm in
The state of my heart, he was my best friend
Into the car, from the back seat
Oh, admiration in falling asleep
All of my powers, day after day
I can tell you, we swaggered and swayed
Deep in the tower, the prairies below
I can tell you, the telling gets old
Terrible sting and terrible storm
I can tell you the day we were born
My friend is gone, he ran away
I can tell you, I love him each day
Though we have sparred, wrestled and raged
I can tell you I love him each day
Terrible sting, terrible storm
I can tell you
- Sufjan Stevens, The Predatory Wasp of the Palasaides is Out To Get Us
   
   
"No explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant."
- Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
   
   
   
"Life is anything that dies when you stomp on it."
- Dave Barry
   
Ser delicado y esperar,
dame tiempo para darte
todo lo que te tengo
- Julieta Venegas, Lento
One, beautiful and full of grace
Mirror in hand, grooming her face
My handkerchief I offered, she smiled,
Is this gift also part of the chase?
ماهی که قدش به سرو میماند راست
آیینه به دست و روی خود میآراست
دستارچهای پیشکشش کردم گفت
وصلم طلبی زهی خیالی که توراست
- Hafiz, Rubaiyat IV
   
   
   
“Your face is so beautiful, and the sound of your words imparts intuitive wisdom. It is so long since this sparrow-hawk has had even a glimpse of water.”
- Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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| "I'm on fire."
"How?"
"Haven't decided, but I am."
"I feel like if I said what I was thinking you wouldn't understand, but then you say things like that and I think maybe you would."
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This fact not fiction
For the first time in years
And all the girls in every girlie magazines
Can't make me feel any less alone
I'm reaching for the phone
To call at seven-oh-three and on your machine I slur a plea for you to come home
But I know it's too late
I should have given you a reason to stay
Given you a reason to stay
- Death Cab for Cutie, A Lack of Color
   
   
The world must be all fucked up when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.
- Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
   
   
How could I explain the way my heart was breaking, if my confessor didn't believe in love?
-Crank
"What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, ‘This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!’ Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, ‘Never have I heard anything more divine’?"
- Friedrich Nietzsche
   
   
Oh, my tongue's the only muscle that works harder than my heart.
- Brand New, OK I Believe You, But My Tommy Gun Don't
"Yeah. French writer. Total loser. Never had a real job. Unrequited love affairs. Gay. Spent 20 years writing a book almost no one reads. But he's also probably the greatest writer since Shakespeare. Anyway, he uh . . . he gets down to the end of his life, and he looks back and decides that all those years he suffered, Those were the best years of his life, 'cause they made him who he was. All those years he was happy? You know, total waste. Didn't learn a thing. So, if you sleep until you're 18 . . . Ah, think of the suffering you're gonna miss. I mean high school? High school-those are your prime suffering years. You don't get better suffering than that."
- Frank, Little Miss Sunshine
   
   
   
I haven’t got a clue if you’re the one
But I like you
And I like how you make me feel
- Hope, Bring Me Flowers
   
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"When I see you the world stops. It stops and all that exists for me is you and my eyes staring at you. There's nothing else. No noise, no other people, no thoughts or worries, no yesterday, no tomorrow. The world just stops, and it is a beautiful place, and there is only you. Just you, and my eyes staring at you."
- James Frey, A Million Little Pieces
   
   
   
"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
- Albus Dumbledore
   
   
“Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry . . . I'm here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you."
- Charlie Brown to Snoopy
   
   
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.”
- Pablo Neruda
   
   
I want to know your fears
From your feet to the back of your ears
And when they raise the landing gear,
Will your heart stay here?
You’re what keeps me believing this world’s not gone dead
Strength in my bones put the words in my head
When they pour out to paper, it's all for you
'Cause that’s what you do
That's what you do
- Say Anything, I Want To Know Your Plans
   
   
Of course the world had changed
for good. As it would from now on
every day, with every twitch and blink.
Now that change was de rigueur,
man would discover desire, then yearn
for what he would learn to call
distraction. This was the true loss.
- Rita Dove, from All Souls'
   
   
"It may have been in bits and pieces, but I gave you the best of me."
- Jim Morrison
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