Twenty Two

"Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart."
-William Wordsworth

“I hope that someday, somebody wants to hold you for twenty minutes straight, and that’s all they do. They don’t pull away. They don’t look at your face, they don’t try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms, without an ounce of selfishness in it.”

— Waitress

"Stella turned towards me and crumpled my heart in her hand. 'Do you fall in love often?'
Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers...with nothing at all.
--Gut Symmetries, Jeanette Winterson

"How happy is he blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd;"
-Alexander Pope

"I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."

--The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien

"You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace."

-Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt

"Thinking, boy, is something you should get in the habit of making use of more often--it helps in everything. Everything but love, that is. Love is a sort of seventh day, so that thinking can rest."
--Merlin (from the 1967 film, Camelot)

"If you don't have enemies, you don't have character."
--Paul Newman

"You know that place between sleep and awake?
The place where you can still remember dreaming.
That's where I'll always love you.
That's where I'll be waiting."
--Peter Pan

"Remember, we're madly in love, so its all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it."
--Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. that will be the beginning."
--Louis L’Amour

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Impromptu Personal Thought:
"To no longer miss anyone--that is paradise."

Twenty One

This blog entry is dedicated to Claire Frame :) Thank you for everything
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"Finally he spoke the three simple words that no amount of bad art or bad faith can every quite cheapen."

--Atonement, Ian McEwan

"She waited for the train to pass. Then she said, ‘I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s at the bottom. All you can do is imagine by what comes floating to the surface every once in a while.'"

— Haruki Murakami

“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”

— Nelson Mandela

“The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they’re alive.”

— O. A. Battista

"Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering."
-Paulo Coelho

"Poetry is an effort of a dissatisfied man to find satisfaction through words."
— Wallace Stevens

"Once in a while your hand will write a sentence that seems true and yet you have no idea where it came from. It may be one's nicest reward as a writer."
--Norman Mailer

"Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it’s all over much too soon."

— Woody Allen

"It's not that he lacked poetry. But his poetry was of the body, not the mind. He spoke it in the way he moved, the way he held a hammer, rowed a boat, built a fire. I, on the other hand, was like a brain in a box, a beating heart in a coal scuttle."
--Meg Rosoff, from her novel What I Was

"That's what you never got. It takes an entire lifetime to write the words "and they lived happily ever after."

via: I wrote this for you

"The Venn Diagram of boys who don't like smart girls and boys you don't want to date is a circle."
-John Green

"My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers, was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple."
--John Lennon

"It is impossible to talk or to write without throwing oneself helplessly open."
— Herman Melville

"I'm a war of head versus heart, and it's always this way. My head is weak; my heart always speaks before I know what it will say."
--Death Cab For Cutie

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Impromptu Personal Thought:

"Every once in awhile, you get exactly what you want
..and that makes every single time that you didn't melt away into the forgotten recesses of your mind."

Twenty

"Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all."

--Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” --Samuel Johnson

"A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person."
--Dave Barry, “Things That It Took Me 50 Years to Learn”

"Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper."
-Kahlil Gibran

"This is what you shall do:
Love the earth and sun and the animals,
Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
Stand up for the stupid and crazy,
Devote your income and labors to others,
Hate tyrants, argue not concerning God,
Have patience and indulgence toward the people,
Take off your hat to nothing known or unknown,
Or to any man or number of men,
Go freely with powerful uneducated persons,
And with the young and with the mothers of families,
Read these leaves in the open air,
Every season of every year of your life,
Reexamine all you have been told,
At school at church or in any book,
Dismiss whatever insults your own soul,
And your very flesh shall be a great poem,
And have the richest fluency not only in its words,
But in the silent lines of its lips and face,
And between the lashes of your eyes,
And in every motion and joint of your body."
-WaltWhitman

"Silence is so accurate."
— Mark Rothko

"All good books have one thing in common- they are truer than if they had really happened, and after you've read one of them you will feel that all that happened, happened to you and it belongs to you forever: the happiness and unhapiness, the good and evil, ecstasy and sorrow, the food, wine, beds, people and weather. If you can give that to a reader, then you're a writer."
--Ernest Hemingway

"He was in a terrible state- that of consciousness."
— Martin Amis

"Creativity and inspiration are when you see an accident and recognize its value.”
-Geoff Nicholson, inventor of post-it notes

"Stories were full of hearts broken by love, but what really broke a heart was taking away its dream — whatever the dream might be."

--The Patriot, Pearl S. Buck

"Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see."
--C.S. Lewis

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Impromptu Personal Thought:

"It takes women years to realize that if the perfect man does not want you...he's not the perfect man."