- "you gather things to you like an old road. you are peopled with echoes and nostalgic voices. i awoke, and at times, birds fled and migrated that had been sleeping in your soul." - pablo neruda
- "so i wait for you like a lonely house 'till you see me again and live in me. 'till then, my windows ache." - pablo neruda
- "all the lives we could live, all the people we will never know, will never be, they are everywhere. that is what the world is." - aleksandar hemon
- "to live is the rarest thing in the world. most people exist, that is all" - oscar wilde
- "sometimes i can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives i'm not living." - jonathan safran foer
- "because i want people to understand what i think about so often. to think the world is as beautiful as i think it is. and i want to talk to everyone about everything. good god, i want to yell at everyone "do you see it? do you see everything around you?" i would ask them, panicked. they would just keep staring up at me. "don't you notice it?" all of it? the world? it's fucking beautiful. and we trample all over it, raking away its blanket of leaves, scraping away its fallen snow so meticulously arranged, walking from a to b to c to d, fixated on a flaw in our fingernails, spitting gum out of car windows haphazardly. "don't you see it?" i'd ask. "it's wonderful and i want you to realize it," i would flail my arms around and be out of breath. but i could inhale again and keep going." - anne symons
- "copper wire smells like sea salt and old-fashioned sailing ships at night and casette tapes of night-time ocean stories that i used to listen to when i was little." - sarah elston
- "dad said he saw you on TV and you were all round and white. i said that's a snowman, you nut and he said, noooooooo. that's my little girl!" - elayne lau
- “the primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.” - eckhart tolle
- “You have to be able to observe life as if you were a camera all the time, constantly looking at light and the way that things are placed and the way people hold themselves. You need the ability to see something in someone or something that no one else really sees and be able to bring that to light. Basically, you have to be an obsessive crazy person.” - ryan mcginley
- "people change and forget to tell each other"
jul 26 2010 ∞
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