- "all she wanted was for things to be nice and pretty, the way they were in the songs."
- "all that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream"
- "and so, with laughter and love, we lived happily ever after"
- "beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized"
- "because the moon feels loved she lets our eyes follow her across the field, from her clothes, strewn silk glinting in furrows. feeling loved, the moon loves to be looked at, swimming all night across the river."
- "but a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more"
- "dancing on tiptoes, my own secret ceremonials"
- "dig up her bones but leave the soul alone"
- "don't die so far from the sea"
- "even miracles take a little time"
- "everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it's stupid"
- "everybody's playing the game, but nobody's rules are the same"
- "evil isn't born. it's made"
- "for Caesar's I am, and wild for to hold, though I seem tame"
- "for the wretched of the earth, there is a flame that never dies. even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise"
- "for whatever we lose (like a you or a me), it's always ourselves we find in the sea"
- "forgot in cruel happiness, that even lovers drown"
- "I got dark only to shine"
- "I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right"
- "I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each"
- "I want to be improbable, beautiful, and afraid of nothing, as though i had wings"
- "I was always the queen, it was you who added evil to my name"
- "I will teach them what it means to put a lion in a cage"
- "in my life, there are times when i catch in the silence the sigh of a faraway song"
- "like petals we must eventually fall"
- "listen to the mustn'ts, child. listen to the don'ts. listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... anything can happen, child. anything can be"
- "my skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel"
- "ne pas voir les gens, cela permet de leur supposer toutes les perfections"
- "no more dreaming like a girl so in love with the wrong world"
- "perfect, he, as a lover, might have called them off-hand. but no - they were not perfect. and it was the touch of the imperfect upon the would-be perfect that gave sweetness, because it was that which gave the humanity"
- "remember me when you do pray, that hope doth lead from day to day"
- "rest, nature, books, music… such is my idea of happiness"
- "she screams in silence"
- "she wants the silence, but fears the solitude"
- "sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. it’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world"
- "sometimes, you've got to do what you think is right and damn the consequences"
- "the only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you"
- "there are no heroes. in life, the monsters win"
- "those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night"
- "to be sure, I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses"
- "what we have here is a dreamer. someone completely out of touch with reality. when she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly"
- "would that I had wings"
- "yes, I do enjoy walking at night. the world’s more to my liking then, not so loud, not so fast, not so crowded, and a good deal more mysterious"
- "yes, she was too much. she felt like too much inside all the time. so why wasn't she ever enough?"
- "you can't choose what stays and what fades away"
jan 8 2013 ∞
jul 2 2013 +