- “One of my philosophy professors lectured wildly about love once, yelling: “When you’re in love with someone, that person is the lighthouse of your universe.” (I scrawled it inside Science and Poetry in pencil—lighthouse of your universe—as if I would ever forget that phrase.) He was a delightful caricature of his position. I could swear he literally tore his hair out while howling at us. He went on, “Nothing means as much without that person.” One of the men in the class repeated, incredulous, half-laughing “so you’re saying you can’t enjoy, like, a vacation, without someone if you’re really in love with them?” “Of course not.” the professor replied. “Not completely. You recognize beauty, but beauty means less if they don’t witness it with you. Beauty is less. You see something sublime and your first thought is that they should be there with you. It’s not as good without them. They illuminate. They make everything more.”
- “You know you’re in love with a person when you talk to them for a minimum of 20 minutes a day in your head.”
- "Having faith and hoping in the promises of God should awaken our inner rebel. It’s the thing that allows us to wage war against the status quo, the not good enoughs, and the I can’ts that chain us down. It should be the kind of thing that makes us march into our guidance counselors office and tell them that you can take your cookie cutter life and sell it to someone else because for me the bake sale’s been cancelled."
- “It’s pathetic how we can’t live with the things we can’t understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.”
- "Wow, sounds like you were really mean to her! Did you tell her that you are an ambassador for Jesus Christ?"
mar 16 2009 ∞
jan 3 2012 +