12-8 (backwards)

  • Sometimes you have to get to know someone really well to realize you’re really strangers.
  • Sometimes skulls are thick, sometimes hearts are vacant, sometimes words don't work.
  • The ocean is made of drops.
  • If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
  • Pride ruins beautiful people.
  • “We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” -Carlos Casteneda
  • “We are homesick most for the places we have never known.” -Carson McCuller
  • The rain is full of ghosts tonight.
  • Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.
  • One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
  • "I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night." -Galileo Galilei
  • The big reason why folks leave a small town, 'Rant used to say, is so that they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay is so that they can moon about getting out. Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.
  • You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things" -Andy Warhol
  • I think the world really boils down to two types of people: those who see shapes in cloud formations & those who just see clouds.
  • "Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.” —G.K. Chesterton
  • If it's important to you, you'll find a way. If it's not, you'll find an excuse.
  • Be strong now, because things will get better. It might be stormy now, but it can't rain forever.
  • "In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show.” —Janet Fitch
  • I don't want to die. I just want to learn how to live.
  • You don't have a soul, you are a soul. You have a body.
  • Sooner or later we all choose a path. Sometimes you never look back, and sometimes life forces you to.
  • A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
  • We stopped checking for monsters under our beds once we realized they were inside of us.
may 14 2010 ∞
jun 26 2010 +