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Tell me why you are awesome :) Also, how you found me. It'd just be cool to know. Nevertheless, if you're a homophobe, pro-life, or extra religious, we probably won't get along.
Even with all of that, I still might not add you. It just depends on whether or not I'm willing to get to know someone new at the moment.
Sam: It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding onto something.
Frodo: What are we holding onto Sam?
Sam: That there's some good in this world, Mr. Frodo...and it's worth fighting for.
-Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
A violin in a dark barrack where the dead were piled on top of the living? Who was this madman who played the violin here, at the edge of his own grave? Or was it a hallucination?
It had to be Juliek.
He was a fragment of a Beethoven concerto. Never before had I heard such a beautiful sound. In such silence.
How had he succeeded in disengaging himself? To slip out from under my body without my feeling it?
The darkness enveloped us. All I could hear was the violin, and it was as if Juliek's soul had become his bow. He was playing his life. His whole being was gliding over the strings. His unfulfilled hopes. His charred past, his extinguished future. He played that which he would never play again.
I shall never forget Juliek. How could I forget this concert given before an audience of the dead and dying? Even today, when I hear that particular piece by Beethoven, my eyes close and out of the darkness emerges the pale and melancholy face of my Polish comrade bidding farewell to an audience of dying men.
I don't know how long he played. I was overcome by sleep. When I awoke at daybreak, I saw Juliek facing me, hunched over, dead. Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.
-Night by Elie Wiesel
"I like to remember everything. As it was. Because moments by themselves aren't enough; they're just -- they're like photographs. They move a little, they wave, but they aren't everything. [...] Because when all the moments come together, when all the songs meet up with one another, you get something whole and complete and wonderful, people you loved and people you hated and a fondness for them you may not be able to recapture but everything you remember about them being somehow more than they really were, because that's what remembering everything does. [...] I'll just remember that I talked for five minutes to a friend who was already sleeping and I was happy anyway. You're not going to remember any of this. Which is probably good since this, my friend, is definitely babble. I hate Gillyweed. It makes you think everything is profound when, in reality, you're talking to yourself and no one else can translate the language that is You."
-Remus, shoebox_project
The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an arrow shoots off from. I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.
-The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
"I changed the course of human history!" "That's right." "I changed the universe!" "You did." "I'm God!" "You're an atheist." "I don't exist!"
-Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
I observed that the hero had small rivers descending his face, and I wanted to put my hand on his face, to be architecture for him.
-Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
"Do you think it's easier to be mad at people you trust?" her mom asked very softly.
I trust Dad, Carmen was about to say without thinking. Then she tried thinking. "Why is that?"
"Because you trust that they'll love you anyway."
-The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
"So, if you wanna burn yourself, remember that I LOVE YOU
And if you wanna cut yourself, remember that I LOVE YOU
And if you wanna kill yourself, remember that I LOVE YOU
Call me up before your dead, we can make some plans instead
Send me an IM, I'll be your friend"
-"Loose Lips" by Kimya Dawson
"It's gonna be 9 months soon that's long
The length of time it takes to have a baby
A year of college
270ish days
That's like the entire life of a good fish"
-John, 4/19/08
"If you live a hundred years, I want to live a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live a day without you."
-Winnie the Pooh
Jonathan Safran Foer: I think there are two really distinct parts of the writing process-at least for my writing process. The first is this kind of intuitive creative expulsion. Then there is the really rigorous serious editing. And the first part is like singing in the shower. You just like the way it sounds in a particular room. In the room of this book I liked the way it sounded to sing as I was singing. When I am in the shower I might sing like Eminem or Radiohead or something that's contemporary on the radio.
Robert Birnbaum: Will you sing [Eminem's] "White America" for me?
JSF: Well, I'm a little hoarse. And when you are editing it's like what if someone walked onto the bathroom, maybe I should choose my songs a little more carefully. Or choose the key in which I'll sing. Or turn the water off. [...] And then there are others who are like subtractive sculptors, who take a block a of marble and carve out the shape. If you do that you really have to know what you are going to find. You can't afford to adjust or make mistakes. But this other way which is also in a way subtractive. You are finding something out of a larger thing. I find that much more liberating and it allows for so many accidents. Joseph Brodsky has this great line, "That the rhyme is smarter than the poet." [...] I felt very strongly that there was something inside of me, something that I wanted to express. I am sure everybody feels this way but particularly young people. Like there must be something I am good at. I felt it burning inside of me or something I'd like to try very hard to do. I had no sense of what it was. And it felt urgent to figure out what it was. [...] Every good book wants to express more or less the same thing. Every book is addressing, at least, these major themes of family, mortality, sexuality, and things like that. The problem is that these things have been expressed or we have attempted to express them for so long that the words start to become dead. And the stories start to become dead. Just in the interest of saying these things in the most simple way that you possibly can, you sometimes have to take a very unusual circuitous route. An expression like "I love you" has virtually no meaning anymore. Everyone has heard it. Probably from a number of people. How can you then express it with any meaning? Because you want the truth of it to come across. The answer is you have to find new ways to say it. Maybe you still use the three words but you do them in a different place. Or a different inflection or you are constantly trying to express to the person you are saying it to, why it means something. Books are the same things.
-Interview about Everything is Illuminated
Nature used to have a way to weed out dibilitating genetics. It was commonly known as Death, or more formally, Natural Selection. Humans used to understand this: only the strongest, only the quickest, only the smartest of males could get the best females. Good genes were a must, because if you weren't the best, you got eaten.
And then we evolved, and now we're so far removed from nature itself that sometimes I seriously wonder if maybe we're the aliens here.
-cykotyks in Child Free Hardcore
Haruhi: Treasures don't necessarily have to be material things.
Kaoru: Huh?
Haruhi: I really think Tamaki is like Urashima Taro's turtle. Everybody usually makes fun of him and it's not like he's going to vanquish an ogre, but he'll definitely lead us all to the underwater palace.
-Ouran Koukou Host Club
"Duck" had been simply the illustrated visual representation of the letter "D" on an alphabet chart for most of my childhood. And now I was watching my babysitter stick her hand up one's ass and stuff it with raisins.
-Augusten Burroughs about Julia Child in Possible Side Effects
I struggle with my feelings about the Church in particular....in terms of religion, I'm very religious. I was raised Catholic. I believe in Jesus. I believe in God. I'm very spiritual. I pray very much. But at the same time, there is no one religion that doesn't hate or speak against or be prejudiced against another racial group or religious group, or sexual group. For that, I think religion is also bogus. So I suppose you could say I'm a quite religious woman that is very confused about religion. And I dream and envision a future where we have a more peaceful religion or a more peaceful world, a more peaceful state of mind for the younger generation. And that's what I dream for.
-Lady Gaga
"And I'm sorry, Jesus? Was a cool dude. He was kind, and generous, and gentle, and giving, and sweet, and thoughtful, and there's no way in hell anyone is ever convincing me a man that good would ever say a word against another person for loving someone of the same sex, or identifying as a different gender than the one they were assigned as birth or treated as a child, or whatever else. And I don't think he 'loved the sinner and hated the sin' either, because there's no way in hell that a man that kind and good and with that much perspective on the world actually sat back and saw all the pain and misery in this world and thought 'yeah, two adult women loving each other, that's a sin for sure'."
-heddychaa
"Do or die, you'll never make me
Because the world will never take my heart
Go and try, you'll never break me
We want it all, we wanna play this part
I won't explain or say I'm sorry
I'm unashamed, I'm gonna show my scar
Give a cheer for all the broken
Listen here, because it's who we are"
-"Welcome to the Black Parade" by My Chemical Romance
"They do realize the bible is a story, right? Right? Fiction? Please someone stop them, this is embarassing. This is like being legitimately worried about Voldemort lauching an attack on New York."
-Joe Ford, 5/20/11
~"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure."
~"It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."
~"Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy."
-Albus Dumbledore
Maiko at gravirating
Uo at furuba_rating
Ninamori at flcl_rating
Ron at wizardingworld_
Tonks at potterpeople
Pumpkin at geisha_rating
Nekozawa at hostclub_rating
Remus at mwpp_rating
Cho at pottergirls
Nita at mirror_animate