- "Why should I feel ashamed?/Feeling guilty at the mention of your name/Here we are again/It's nearly perfect" -- Pixie Lott, "Mama Do"
- "Well, I should stay away, but what can I do? ... You're the lover I have waited for/You're the mate that fate had me created for" -- Kevin Spacey, "That Old Black Magic"
- "...to-day the/Fumbled and unsatisfactory embrace before hurting." -- W. H. Auden
- "If you're looking for something life-like/Hit a sardine nightclub/If every surface you touch is cold/Never go home/He says, 'I can't feel a thing, my dreams are so tight/Why wouldn't I stand in line tonight?'" -- Metric, "Hustle Rose"
- "I would like to just follow you a while. I'd like to watch the white flash of your heels as they take turns breaking the desert heat, to beckon me in languages I've never learned. I'd like to have you navigate to hills where no musicians live, and on the way decide what 'bendings' of your will you're willing to forgive." -- Sunset Rubdown, "You Go On Ahead," and anything else by them
- "The only thing I'll ever ask of you/You've got to promise not to stop when I say when./...And I wonder/When I sing along with you/If anything could ever feel this real forever." -- Foo Fighters, "Everlong"
- "There's a low moon caught in your tangles/There's a ticking at the sill/There's a purr of a pigeon to break the still of day/As on we go drowning" -- The Decemberists, "Of Angels and Angels"
- "Nothing so loud/As hearing when we lie/The truth is not kind/And you've said neither am I." -- Toad the Wet Sprocket, "All I Want"
- "I do a dance to make the rain come/Smile to keep the sky from falling down down down down/Collect the love that I've been given/Build a nest for us to sleep in here/You know it's real." -- St. Vincent, "All My Stars Aligned"
- "Saying I'm still mourning/Over ghosts/Over ghosts/Over ghosts/Over ghosts that broke my heart before I met you." -- Laura Marling, "Ghosts"
- "It's like I have a shotgun in my mouth, with my finger on the trigger, and I can't get enough of the taste of gun metal." -- Robert Downey, Jr.
- "We can dream big and make the sparks burn brighter while they last, anyways…" -- Kurt Halsey
sep 28 2009 ∞
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