May 2011
“When I sleep, I dream of you, and when I wake, I long to hold you in my arms. If anything, our time apart has only made me more certain that I want to spend my nights by your side and my days with your heart.”
—Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks
“Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be, and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again. We both know the reason I went to Rodanthe, but I can’t stop thinking that greater forces were at work. I went there o close a chapter in my life, hoping it would help me find my way. But it was you, I think, that I had been looking for all along. And it’s you who is with me now.”
—Nights in Rodanthe by Nicholas Sparks
“Sooner or later, you start taking yourself seriously. You know when you need a break. You know when you need a rest. You know what to get worked up about and what to get rid of. And you know when it’s time to take care of yourself, for yourself. To do something that makes you stronger, faster, more complete. Because you know it’s never too late to have a life. And never too late to change one.”
—Nike
“I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you’re everything that exists; the reality of everything.”
—Night and Day by Virginia Woolf
“‘If I had a camera,’ I said, ‘I’d take a picture of you every day. That way I’d remember how you looked every single day of your life.’”
—The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
“Poetry might be described as the clear expression of mixed feelings.”
—New Year Letter by W.H. Auden
“He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn’t occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.”
—Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
“It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed. If I’d known, maybe I’d have kept tighter hold of them and not let unseen tides pull us apart.”
—Never Let Me Go
“I go to school, but I never learn what I want to know.”
—Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
“I’ll be a story in your head, but that’s ok. We’re all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? Cos it was, you know, it was the best. A daft old man who stole a magic box and ran away.”
—Doctor Who
