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Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen ... I cannot get enough of her, this book was absolutely amazing.
Watching him, I thought, not for the first time that night, that maybe it should have felt strange to be with him, here, now. And yet it didn't, at all. That was one of the things about the night. Stuff that would be weird in the bright light of day just wasn't so much once you passed a certain hour. It was like the dark just evened it all out somehow.
The night changed things, widening out the scope. What we said to each other, the things we did, they all took on a bigger meaning in the dark. Like time was sped up and slowed down, all at once.
Maybe it was true, and being a girl could be about interest rates and skinny jeans, riding bikes and wearing pink. Not about any one thing, but everything.
Relationships don't always make sense. Especially from the outside.
It was so risky and and so scary, and yet at the same time, so beautiful. Maybe the truth was, it shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth. When something's difficult to come by, you'll do that much more to make sure it's even harder - if not impossible - to lose.
It was so easy to disown what you couldn't recognize, to keep yourself apart from things that were foreign and unsettling. The only person you can be sure to control, always, is yourself. Which is a lot to be sure of, but at the same time, not enough.
'And the bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more, you're all good.'
'The basic fact of the matter is that no, this isn't ideal. Very few things are. Sometimes, you have to manufacture your own history. Give fate a push, so to speak. You know?'
Each of those things had happened late and out of order, not exactly as they probably should have. But the memories and experiences were no less real because of it. If anything, they were more special, because they hadn't happened to me, but because of me.
Still, more than ever this summer, I'd learned that it's not just where you go, but how you choose to get there.
You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to shut on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out. To me, it didn't seem complicated at all. In fact, it was the simplest thing in the world.
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I had to learn the hard way that some people walk into our lives and physically walk out… but they never really leave.
— Arminda Meer
Maybe the deepest part of who we are is what scares us or breaks our hearts and we don’t want to share that with anyone and when we do, we don’t want to lose those people.
— - Another Woman’s Husband
‘You’re going to have to learn to let go, or you’ll never be happy with anyone.’
— The Heat Seekers by Zane
( - Caution - Quote Heavy )
And finally, credits to Ellipsis for this quote-worthy: i love her…because she doesn’t realize what she does. unaware when she kisses, when she kills; beneath it all, her priorities are hers alone. strip the facade and the bliss that’s left is of her own making.
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| Dead Poet's Society |
[09 Jul 2009|05:31pm] |
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We don’t’ read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we’re members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, law, business an engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life, but poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. --- John Keating, Dead Poet's Society.
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[08 Jul 2009|05:28pm] |
"The water washes over the riverbank, erasing the edges till there's nothing. But I saw it. I know it's there. And when I wake, the room is white with the morning sun. The light is so bright it hurts my eyes. But I don't dare close them. I won't. Instead, I try to adjust to the dawn, letting the tears fall where they may, because it is morning; it is morning, and there is so much to see." - Libba Bray The Sweet Far Thing
"You told me to shoot for the stars yet you gave me an empty gun."
“Wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the forest, a little boy and his Bear will always be playing.” Winnie the Pooh
“If ever there is tomorrow when we're not together.. there is something you must always remember. you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we're apart.. i'll always be with you.” Winnie the Pooh
"There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco. A failure is merely the absence of success. Any fool can achieve failure. But a fiasco, a fiasco is a disaster of epic proportions. A fiasco is a folk tale told to others to make other people feel more alive because it didn't happen to them."
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[08 Jul 2009|06:43pm] |
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An odd request: Does anyone have any quotes regarding someone who is still madly in love with you but you're with someone else and love them, but still care about the other? Nice quotes please, nothing like "you had your chance".
and for your time:
"Today I shall be happier than a bird with a french fry." <---my personal life motto
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[08 Jul 2009|05:31pm] |
The rain to the wind said,
'You push and I'll pelt.'
They so smote the garden bed
That the flowers actually knelt,
And lay lodged--though not dead.
I know how the flowers felt.
-Robert Frost
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| Lovin and Leavin' |
[08 Jul 2009|12:51pm] |
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I'm moving at the end of this month from the place I've called home for the past 20 years. In this process I am leaving my future husband behind, thus entering the scary and lonely land of long distance relationships. Anyway, I've found some solace in these quotes., so I thought I'd share.
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| religion |
[08 Jul 2009|09:48am] |
"The World is divided into armed camps ready to commit genocide just because we can't agree on whose fairy tales to believe.
In the end, Religion will kill us all."
-- Ed Krebs
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[08 Jul 2009|07:58pm] |
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake…
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes… but no plans.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
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[07 Jul 2009|08:40pm] |
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hey, i need quotes about getting over something because my best friend in the world is moving away.
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| Some beautiful words |
[07 Jul 2009|04:56pm] |
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"Leave me in the night but please don't leave me in the dark."
-Tom Robbins
"The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history."
Oscar Wilde
"I know I am but summer to your heart,
And not the full four seasons of the year"
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
"I lock my door upon myself
And bar them out; but who shall wall
Self from myself, most loathed of all?"
-Christina Rosetti
"You make me hate what I see when I look at me."
-The Pixies
"I saw the sky and sea and sand and the flickering flames of the bonfire through my tears. All at once, it rushed into my head with tremendous speed, and made me feel dizzy. It was beautiful. Everything that happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy."
-Banana Yoshimoto
"A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants them to know just how badly they've all let him down."
-Nick Hornby
"I have ridden in your cart, driver,
waved my nude arms at villages going by,
learning the last bright routes, survivor
where your flames still bite my thigh
and my ribs crack where your wheels wind.
A woman like that is not ashamed to die.
I have been her kind."
-Anne Sexton
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| Pride & Prejudice & Zombies, Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith |
[07 Jul 2009|11:38am] |
"You are too sensible a girl, Lizzy, to fall in love merely because you are warned against it; and, therefore, I am not afraid of speaking openly. Seriously, I would have you be on your guard. I have nothing to say against him; he has felled many a zombie; and if he had the fortune he ought to have, I should think you could not do better. But as it is, you must not let your fancy run away with you."
--Pride & Prejudice & Zombies
Jane Austen & Seth Grahame-Smith
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[07 Jul 2009|05:03pm] |
"Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes." " ~Clare Boothe Luce
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| House of Incest |
[07 Jul 2009|12:34am] |
"I am the most tired woman in the world. I am tired when I get up. Life requires an effort I cannot make. Please give me that heavy book. I need to put something heavy like that on top of my head. I have to place my feet under the pillows always, so as to be able to stay on earth. Otherwise I feel myself going away, going away at a tremendous speed, on account of my lightness. I know that I am dead. As soon as I utter a phrase my sincerity dies, becomes a lie whose coldness chills me. Don't say anything, because I see that you understand me, and I am afraid of your understanding. I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lonely, but I also have such a fear that my isolation be broken through, and I no longer be the head and ruler of my universe. I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have to share my kingdom with you."
-Anaïs Nin
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[05 Jul 2009|01:14pm] |
"He had taken almost everything. But he had been all I'd had, all this time. And when the police led him away, I pulled out of the hands of all these loved ones, sobbing, screaming, everything hurting to try and make him stay."
- Sarah Dessen, Dreamland
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[05 Jul 2009|02:51am] |
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i live an unhealthy life
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| Just a few quotes I felt like sharing |
[02 Jul 2009|08:59pm] |
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The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind. ~Eric Hoffer “I have no use for men who fail. The cause of their failure is no business of mine, but I want successful men as my associates,”- John D. Rockefeller I came, I saw, I conquered- Julius Caesar "We don't know who we are until we see what we can do."-Martha Grimes “A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”-Robert A. Heinlein "If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance."-Abraham Lincoln
“Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”-Sir Winston Churchill "It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary." -Sir Winston Churchill
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." -Theodore Roosevelt
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| we are what we cannot do |
[02 Jul 2009|10:23pm] |
"We are remembered for the totality of our accomplishments, but we are defined by the singularity of our greatest failure. It does not matter what you have been right about, and it does not matter how often that rightness is validated by others. We are what we cannot do."
- Chuck Klosterman, Downtown Owl
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[02 Jul 2009|06:16pm] |
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"Friendship is when people know all about you, but like you anyway." -Anonymous
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