- "So if you wanna burn yourself, remember that I love you. If you wanna cut yourself, remember that I love you. If you wanna kill yourself, remember that I love you. Call me up before your dead, we can make some plans instead send me an IM, I'll be your friend." - Kimya Dawson
- "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense". - Buddha
- "I'm so sorry if I'm alienating some of you. Your fucking culture alienates me." - Bikini Kill
- "Sell me a pre-packaged body conception. Sell me a dream of love everlasting. Sell me perfection of satisfaction. Give me beauty or give me DEATH." - Refused
- "Objectively speaking, separated from all the cultural baggage around them, blue eyes are kind of creepy; a genetic mutation that leaves the irises washed out, with too little pigment. A blue eyed girl on heroin looks like a corpse. Her pupils are so tiny as to be almost totally invisible and, I swear to you, what little color her eyes had is even more faded. A blue eyed girl on heroin looks like someone wearing Halloween novelty contacts, which I first saw in the original version of Diabolique, when the abusive husband, believed dead, removes them after scaring his meek little wife into a heart attack. Those things have creeped me out ever since. A blue eyed girl on heroin looks like one of the living dead. This cannot be coincidence. This is a message from nature: Back away. Harden your heart. Grab a shovel and aim for the head." - Eyes of Pearl a zine by Leah
- ""It feels so... good, B. It's like touching yourself. You know every move...right on the fucking dot. And after, see fucking fireworks. Supernovas. I'm a goddamn force of nature. I feel like I could do just about anything." - Ginger Snaps
- "To make a new world you start with an old one, certainly. To find a world, maybe you have to have lost one. Maybe you have to be lost." - Ursula Le Guin
- "I paint self-portraits because I am the person I know best. I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to and I paint whatever passes through my head without any consideration." - Frida Kahlo
- "Cause institution's like a big bright lie and it blinds you into fear and consuming and fight and you've been in the desert underneath the charging sky. It's just you and God but what if God's not there? But his name is on your dollar bill, which just became cab fare." - Jenny Lewis
- "Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you'll ever do is to understand yourself, know what i is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way." - White Oleander by Janet Fitch
- "But who needs love when there's Law and Order? And who needs love when there's Southern and Comfort? And who needs love when the sandwiches are wicked and they know you at the Mac store?" - "Leeds United" by Amanda Palmer
- "Perhaps for the first time in my life I understood good manners. I understand that you must be polite to all people at all times because you never know what difficulties they might be struggling with at that precise moment, you never know how the slightest wrong thing that you say could be the last little it takes to send a person who is just barely holding it together into a complete breakdown. The one little mistake you make, bumping into someone as you walk busily down a crowded sidewalk, shoving a woman aside as you push your way into a crowded subway car, spilling red wine on someone else's white shirt because you weren't paying attention as you made your rounds through a cocktail party - you never know if that misguided gesture might not be the reason some poor lost soul ends up in the loony bin. Anyone can be that delicate." - More, Now, Again by Elizabeth Wurtzel
- "Indifferent but distanced perfectly, projected endlessly, it's so fucking beautiful" - Rilo Kiley
- "Just because they call themselves friends, doesn't mean they'll call." - Amanda Palmer
- "Just as I am amazed that a bank employee does not eat a check, I am also amazed that no painter before me ever had the idea of painting a soft watch." -Salvador Dali
- "The more we make use of our memories, the more they turn into fables, which we keep turning over in our minds so as not to forget who we are, their moral serving as our solace or our torture." - Céline Curiol, Voice Over
- "I run from their pity, from responsibility, run from the country and run from the city. I can run from the law, I can run from myself. I can run from my life, I can run into debt. I can run from it all, I can run till I’m gone. I can run for the office and run from the cause. I can run using every last once of energy. I cannot, I cannot, I cannot run from my family." -Amanda Palmer
- "Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.”
- "Wounded people are dangerous, they know they can survive"
- "Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance." -Coco Chanel
- "So death, the most frightening of bad things, is nothing to us; since when we exist death is not present, and when death is present, then we do not exist." -Epicurus
- "People keep telling me that I fall in love too easily—that I should protect my heart, that I shouldn’t wear my heart on my sleeve… I fall in love at least 20 times a day. I fall in love with the sky and the sun and the flowers and my children. I fall in love with smiles, with music on the radio and with french fries and Dr. Pepper. I fall in love with the sound of laughter, blue jeans, accents… Sometimes I fall in love with complete strangers, especially the ones holding hands and kissing in public. The ones who aren’t afraid to be in love with the idea of being in love either. I don’t mind the pain of unrequited love so much, because I think they’re wrong. Love looks good on me." -Natalie Anne Erlanson
- "I don’t want to transfer my pessimism onto children. I keep it at bay. I don’t believe that adults should impose their vision of the world on children. Children are very much capable of forming their own visions." - Hayao Miyazaki
apr 23 2008 ∞
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