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."