Fifteen

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
--Mark Twain

"It is what you read when you don't have to
that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
--Oscar Wilde

"We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to."
Dave Egger

“I like a lot of talk in a book and I don’t like to have nobody tell me what the guy that’s talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.”
-John Stienbeck

The love in my heart
and the joy inside my eyes,
Entirely yours.
-Tyler Knott

"In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt."
— Margaret Atwood

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
--Mother Teresa

"Love one another,
but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between
the shores of your souls."

Love Letters in the Sand: The Love Poems of Kahlil Gibran

"There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sink and never find the strength to rise up again."

--Bel Canto, Ann Patchett

"I love you more than yesterday...And you'll never know how much I loved you then.
--James Patterson

"Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated."

— George Bernard Shaw

"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius."

--Self-Reliance, Ralph Waldo Emerso


"I don’t know what it means and I don’t care because it’s Shakespeare and it’s like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words."

--Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt
^Im so happy I stumbled upon this quote again.
I remember hearing it about two years ago and not understanding--but then I had to memorize and speak Shakespeare's words for two straight months and I dont think I'll ever feel the same.
Jewels in my mouth--exactly.


"Never say love is “like” anything… It isn’t."

--The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Michael Chabon

"Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can."

--Life of Pi, Yann Martel

"How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard."

--Winnie-The-Pooh, A.A. Milne
^I might possibly want that on my gravestone. Is that morbid?

"I’m mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can’t even bring themselves to talk."
--The Temple of My Familiar, Alice Walker

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Impromptu Personal Thought--

"If I can someday walk into a bookstore, and purchase any book that catches my fancy--I will be exactly as rich as I wish to be."

Fourteen

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”

— Mae West

“A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”

— John Burroughs

"They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much."
--Malcolm Cowley

"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."
--Jack Kerouac

"Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day."
--W. Earl Hall

"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, and the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me...Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."
--Shel Silverstein

Dear Eurydice,
I miss you.
No--that's not enough.
-
Dear Eurydice,
Symphony for twelve instruments.

((he pauses.
he hears the music in his head))

Love,
Orpheus

(Eurydice, Scene II)

"Perhaps all romance is like that; not a contract between equal parties but an explosion of dreams and desires that can find no outlet in everyday life."
-Jeanette Winterson

^ I want to meet whoever wrote that

"Desire is definitely not enough; you gotta be relentless."
--Randy Jackson

"I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental-like on a breeze, but I, I think maybe it's both. Maybe both is happening at the same time."
-Forrest Gump


"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being."
-Oscar Wilde

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Play Suggestion- Eurydice


I cant explain it. It's abstract but-- Please read it.
I wont be able to go to sleep until I retype some quotes from it
so here goes--

Orpheus- "Maybe you should make up your own thoughts, instead of reading them in a book."
Eurydice- "I do. I do think up my own thoughts."
Orpheus- "I know you do. I love how you love books. Don't be mad."
(scene 1)

Eurydice- "It can be interesting to see if other people--like dead people who write books--agree or disagree with what you think."
(scene 1)

Orpheus- "Your hair will be my orchestra and--I love you."
(scene 1)

Loud Stone- "Listen to her the way you would listen to your own daughter, if she died to young and tried to speak to you across long distances."
(Movement II, scene 2)

Eurydice- "Orpheus never liked words He had his music. He would get a funny look on his face and I would say what are you thinking about and he would always be thinking about music.
If we were in a resturant, sometimes I would get embarrassed because Orpheus looked sullen and wouldn't talk to me and I thought people felt sorry for me. I should have realized that women envied me. Their husbands talked too much.
But I wanted to talk to him about my notions.
This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in the moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful."
(Movement II, scene 16)

Orpheus- "The music sounds better in my head than it does in the world."
(Movement II, scene 17)

Eurydice-
Dear Orpheus,
I'm sorry. I dont know what came over me. I was afraid. Im not worthy of you. But I still love you, I think. Don't try to find me again. You would be lonely for music. I want you to be happy. I want you to marry again. I am going to write out instructions for your next wife.
To My Husband's Next Wife:
Be gentle.
Be sure to comb his hair when it's wet.
Don't fail to notice
that his face flushes pink
like a bride's
when you kiss him.
Give him lots to eat.
He forgets to eat and he gets cranky.
When he's sad,
kiss his forehead and I will thank you.
Because he is a young prince
and his robes are too heavy for him.
His crown falls down
around his ears.
I'll give this letter to a worm. I hope he finds you.
Love,
Eurydice

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Impromptu personal thought-

1

bottling emotions is a fruitless task
when you feel as though heart has swelled so much that you can't contain it,
you aren't meant to.

Thirteen

As I put down my pen,

I know someone, somewhere is picking up theirs.

I know that someone, somewhere is playing a guitar for the first time.

I know that someone, somewhere is dipping a paintbrush and marking a field of white.

I know that someone, somewhere is singing a song that’s never been sung.

Perhaps someone, somewhere will create something so beautiful and moving, it will change the world.

Perhaps that somewhere is here.

Perhaps that someone, is you."

-http://www.iwrotethisforyou.me/

“It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.”

— Max Eastman

"Women are like teabags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

"Stop talking about love. Every asshole in the world says he loves somebody. It means nothing. It still doesn't mean anything. What you feel only matters to you. It's what you do to the people you say you love, that's what matters. It's the only thing that counts."

-The Last Kiss (2006)-

“Soul meets soul on lovers’ lips.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

"You know, I think you try a little harder when you’re scared."

— Rocky Balboa

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

-Maya Angelou

"I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid life."

— American Beauty

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”

— e.e. cummings

I squeeze the fabric
of your clothes when we hug so
you can’t blow away.

-Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott

"Regret for the things we do can be tampered with time. It is regret for the things we do not do that is inconsolable."

— Sydney J. Harris

"I’m convinced that tragedy wants to harden us and that our mission is to never let it."

— Felicity

"Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't. I'm not surprised some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people's lives, never your own.
-Julian Barnes

Twelve

"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character…Would you slow down? Or speed up?"

--Chuck Palahniuk




"There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live. The sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope."

Alexander Dumas

"And though she be but little, she is fierce"

--William Shakespeare

"Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me."

--Fred Rogers




You must work, we must all work, to make the world worthy of its children."
--Pablo Picasso




"There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let them hurt me."
--Jonathan Safran Foer
(Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close)




“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.”

— William Shakespeare

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."

--Mark Twain

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society."

--Jiddu Krishnamurti

"Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over."

--Gloria Naylor

"We read to know that we are not alone."

--C.S. Lewis



"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. ‘Pooh?’ he whispered.

‘Yes, Piglet?’
‘Nothing,’ said Piglet, taking Pooh’s hand. ‘I just wanted to be sure of you.’"

--A.A. Milne