March 2012
“It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can’t get out of, but I think this is very usual in life. There are people, particularly dumb people, who are in terrible trouble and never get out of it, because they’re not intelligent enough. And it strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that a man can always solve his problems. There is an implication that if you just have a little more energy, a little more fight, the problem can always be solved. That is so untrue that it makes me want to cry - or laugh.”
—Kurt Vonnegut
“Though it seems like time itself moves more slowly when you’re in the presence of people who actually see and hear you. There’s a certain weight to a moment that never comes when you feel invisible.”
—Walking in Circles Before Lying Down by Merrill Markoe
“‘You have too good a mind to throw away. I don’t quite know what we’re doing on this insignificant cinder spinning away in a dark corner of the universe. That is a secret which the high gods have not confided in me. Yet one thing I believe and I believe it with every fibre of my being. A man must live by his light and do what little he can and do it as best he can. In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is to be less than a man.’
She is right. I will say yes. I will say yes even though I do not really know what she is talking about.” —The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
She is right. I will say yes. I will say yes even though I do not really know what she is talking about.” —The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
I'm new at tumblr could you suggest any good blogs to follow kinda like yours. :) thx!
Hi, and welcome. haha. You will now have a life full of internet shenanigans and get no work done ever.
So blogs… I would start by looking at who I follow although some people I follow because I know them and all that. My personal favourites are:
- runawaytrain
- officialiwrotethisforyou
- aseaofquotes
- anditslove
- clavicola
- loveyourchaos
- karishma
- youjustyou
- 472239364
- quote-book
- and everything else I have ever followed ever.
I think who I follow is on my page as well somewhere, but I don’t know. I’m looking out for more people so if you ever want to let me know I’ll have a look at anyone’s page.
Me talk about anything personal? Nah. lol took some me time to get away from all that stress. Maybe 'the vow' wasnt a good choice. But a great movie you gotta see it if you havent, you'll love all the quotes mos. def. tc :)
hahaha. Fair enough. I think I need to see the vow for Channing Tatum. Hope everything is going a little better for you though.
You know that really stupid smile you get on your face when someone says the name of the guy you like and you just start smiling and you can't stop and you feel like a total moron?
Yeah. That’s me. Right now. And every other time I think about last night.
It’s Friday; I’m in love.
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“…some people think the truth is the worst thing that can happen.
The truth is not the worst thing that can happen.”
-Tony Hoagland
I.
The first time your heart was torn from your chest,
You thought you were dying.
You knew you could not live with the empty space.
So you replaced your heart with metaphors
And set out to create a world where the metaphor was unbreakable.
Now look what you’ve done—
You can’t breathe so you write.
You can’t hurt so you drink rum and pour our pirate chanties.
You can’t want revenge so you leave.
II.
When I see you I have two thoughts:
You are the reason The Smith’s wrote songs,
And my god, you are beautiful.
You are so beautiful
Blinking stars go blind.
But I can see this is going to get ugly.
The metaphors don’t make you feel whole anymore.
You sell out your deepest insecurities for a handful of laughs.
This life has you wound so tight you make grandfather clocks look relaxed.
You hold your body like banks hold money—all locked up.
Your shoulders are glass rocks waiting for the next attack.
But you’ve got it all wrong.
You don’t survive history.
History survives you.
There is no breakthrough without breakdown.
III.
If you’re going to break, shatter.
No explanations.
No limp-legged dog excuses.
No messing with this bullet proof vest fury
So popular with the cops and the presidents.
You’ve got to break like Texas.
You’ve got to take the pain from the safety valve of your heart
And return it to your fists.
Fight your better judgment ‘till you’re sinister again,
‘till your body remembers what it already knows how to do—
bend back
and manifest grief.
Scream torches ‘till you embarrass the enlightened.
Please. No more polite conversations with your death wish.
Give it something useful to do.
Change your life.
Cause I can’t stand to see you like this.
So blue, my eyes turn green in your presence.
Listen—you are so beautiful,
Grass pushes through sidewalk cracks just to kiss your feet.
IV.
Maybe no one ever told you,
But the heart IS a metaphor.
Yours is growing so strong
You’ll have your rhythm back any day now—
Loving like rumours spread.
Dreaming like lunatic spacemen jump from their suits.
Living like you never forgot how.
The whole of today has felt like something really shit is about to happen and I’ve been really worried about it all day and nothing has happened which makes me wonder if I’m being paranoid but I still think something is going to happen and it’s nagging and giving me a headache.
And I still think he knows. He knows. Which, in laymans terms means: I’m fucked.
“I cannot adequately describe the intensity of what I was feeling at that moment. Love, anger, sadness, hope, and fear, whirling together sharpened by the nervousness I was feeling. Jamie looked at me curiously any my breaths became shallower. Suddenly I knew that I’d never felt as strongly for another person as I did at that moment. As I returned her gaze, this simple realization made me wish for the millionth time that I could make all this go away. Had it been possible, I would have traded my life for hers. I wanted to tell her my thoughts, but the sound of her voice suddenly silenced the emotions inside me.”
—A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks
“They say that dreams are only real as long as they last. Couldn’t you say the same thing about life?”
—Waking Life
Coyote Song
Bright Eyes
Bright Eyes - Coyote Song
Loving you is easy, I can do it in my sleep;
I dream of you so often it’s like you never leave
“I like beginnings because they’re so full of promise. The first page of a book, the first day of a job, the first time you buy yourself flowers, the first date with a new man, the first touch, the first kiss, the first kick of a good liquor, the first moment you hold your own baby. I like beginnings because I know there’s always more to come.”
—Bitter Sweet Symphony by Shyma Perera
