an increasingly long lists of quotations from those who were older than me, from many far wiser than me.

• "the devil is real, and he’s not a little red man with horns and a tail. he can be beautiful, because he’s a fallen angel, and he used to be god’s favorite." american horror story
• "there is only one conclusion to every story: we all fall down." domino (2005)
• "there is nothing to writing. all you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." ernest hemingway
• "i escape into sleep. sleep is what i'll miss most when i die." anna kamienska
• "if i make a fool of myself, who cares? i'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me." angelina jolie
• "monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. they live inside us, and sometimes, they win." stephen king
• "never say goodbye, because goodbye means going away, and going away means forgetting." j.m. barrie
• "i suppose if i've learned something (besides never signing anything without a lawyer present and that sulky-faced boys will break your heart), it's that life takes funny turns when you're not looking." sarra manning
• "elle souhaitait à la fois mourir et habiter paris." gustave flaubert
• "the train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his mustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope." robin mckinley
• "te amo como se aman ciertas cosas oscuras: secretamente, entre la sombra y el alma." pablo neruda
• "one minute was enough, tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. a moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection." chuck palahniuk
• "i like people too much or not at all." sylvia plath
• "the good news is, the future is always changing, in the largest of ways, by the smallest of things." push (2009)
• "at the end, a job is not just a job. it's who you are, and if wanna change who you are, you have to change what you do." repo men (2010)
• "try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. and when you get angry, get good and angry. try to be alive. you will be dead soon enough." william saroyan
• "the way you slam your body into mine reminds me i'm alive, but monsters are always hungry, darling, and they're only a few steps behind you." richard siken
• "as long as you care as much as i care, you can't be ashamed of anything." kristen stewart
• "life is history in the making. and maybe we learn and maybe we don't, but nothing ever stays the same. we just keep moving forward the best we know how." taking chances (2009)
• "life's better with company." up in the air (2009)
• "sometimes, i feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all." evelyn waugh
• "you do not have a soul. you are a soul. you have a body." c.s. lewis
• "if a writer falls in love with you, you can never die."
• "act the way you'd like to be, and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act." bob dylan
• "sometimes i can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives i'm not living." jonathan safran foer
• "i want to be magic. i want to touch the heart of the world and make it smile. i want to be a friend of elves and live in a tree. or under a hill. i want to marry a moonbeam and hear the stars sing. i don't want to pretend at magic anymore. i want to be magic." charles de lint
• "no man dies of love but on the stage, mr. crawford." mansfield park (1999)
• "in the morning it was morning and i was still alive." charles bukowski