January 2010
137 posts
“If you want to live badly enough, you can live. The greater question, at least...”
– Marya Hornbacher, Wasted
“Boy, when you’re dead, they really fix you up. I hope to hell when I do...”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
One of these days, I am going to get a lovely white wig, and bleach my eyebrows white. (Unrelated, I know)
“Where is your heart?” you ask.
“How do you live without your heart?”
I don’t...”
– Lauren Wheeler, Sideshow
“My ambition was to negate. The world, whether dense or hollow, provoked only my...”
– Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted
“Did the hospital specialize in poets and singers, or was it that poets and...”
– Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted
“He never cried, not even in his dreams, for hard-heartedness was a point of...”
– Yokio Mishima, The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea
“He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women , nor of great occurrences, nor of...”
– Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and The Sea
““My pain is ugly, Angel Juan. I feel like I have so much ugly pain”,...”
– Francesca Lia Block, Witch Baby
“‘Pride,’ observed Mary, who piqued herself on the solidarity of her...”
– Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“Sometimes I daydream about terrible things happening to me. Like I’ll...”
– Zoe Whittal, Holding Still For As Long As Possible
“I don’t write to forget what happened; I write to remember. There are worse...”
– Alice W. Flaherty, The Midnight Disease
Hearts Grow Back Like Hair, No?
Funny, though, no matter how much it rains, this city is never clean.
Letters To Dead People →
“When I was very little, my father used to say, “If you are alive, there is...”
– Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
Benny: You seem, happy. What're you on this time round.
Ruby: What— can't I be happy once in a long while? Just so you know, it isn't a crime to smile and laugh.
Benny: It isn't but this is you we're talking about. Spill it; you're scaring me and you look better unsmiling. I'd rather you be miserable all the time.
Ruby: You're just like, God.
“All I insist on, and nothing else, is that you should show the whole world that...”
– Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“Romance is not an idea, Christie, but a moment. An unspoken glance when someone...”
– Matthew Pearl, What the Dickens
I thought that the more you love someone, the more sincere you’d be towards them. But I guess somehow, I just end up going the opposite direction.
So perhaps he who said he hates the world, might love it more than anyone else.
“You ask impossible and contradictory things. You want to know what dreams, what...”
– Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume One: 1931-1934
“At moments she seems non-human, because she is so unconscious of her acts,...”
– Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Volume One: 1931-1934
““I don’t think you care — that this has happened among you. You...”
– Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
“Now there’s no kiss. Just one embrace. He untugs himself from her and...”
– Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
“I can’t convey it and he can’t see it; there’s nothing to be...”
– Kay Redfield Jamison, An Unquiet Mind
Note: I like depressive quotes and writing sad...
“One thing smoke does is lower your voice. It did not sound like me, thanking the...”
– Amy Hempel, Pool Night
“Let’s not debate who has suffered most. Anyone alive hasn’t suffered...”
– Louise Murphy, The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
“God didn’t come down and kill us. I don’t see God shooting children...”
– Louise Murphy, The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
““See the stars,” Gretel said. “I know what they are.”
...”
– Louise Murphy, The True Story of Hansel and Gretel
Listen
“I don’t like it when people are too pretty. They have to have character....”
– Ryan McGinley
“It’s not like you were obliged to come find me,” I said, “but I hoped the whole...”
– Charlaine Harris, Dead and Gone
3:18AM
And you know me so well? Just because I laugh, do I look like a fool to you? Do you know what kind of thoughts I have, just to breathe every single day? With what kind of a resolution I had, while standing on that ledge? Do you know why I cried? I want to cry every day, but it’s humiliating. Until those days become too much to bear, that I kept thinking of how much I want to die. So I cry, I...
Running On Empty
I guess, what I really want, is to have someone run away with me. All I need is a soulmate, and a film camera.
“Yo quería dejar
A mi amante,
Pero antes de que pudiera,
Hacerlo ella me...”
Everything Means Nothing to Me
When he sang this song back then, had Elliott Smith made the decision to commit suicide? Well then, in the afterlife, is he happy?