It seemed to Hazel that he would not be needing his body any more, so he left it lying on the edge of the ditch, but stopped for a moment to watch his rabbits and to try to get used to the extraordinary feeling that strength and speed were flowing inexhaustibly out of him into their sleek young bodies and healthy senses ( Read more... )

Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are trying to get ideas.
- Paula Poundstone

"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again."

It's the first day of September, and because I hate for the first calendar square to be blank, I'm sitting here trying to find my words. It's September. How did it get to be September? Four months until the end of 2005, and 2005 still feels new to me.

Do you ever get, like, obsessed with the rearview mirror? Like, while you're driving?

Here you are again ( Read more... )

If there was a better way to go then it would find me-
I can't help it the road just rolls out behind me.
Be kind to me, or treat me mean,
I'll make the most of it I'm an extraordinary machine.

-Fiona Apple

"Irish Women are very very strong women of incredible passion and determination to live or struggle gladly."

It fits.

There is no fate. There is no destiny. There is no luck. Astrology is ridiculous. Tarot cards tell you nothing. You can not read a palm. Tea leaves make tea and nothing else. Jim Morrison is not hanging out with Elvis, and the Kennedys did not kill Marilyn.
-Luke, Gilmore Girls"Chicken or Beef ( Read more... )

"All I'm doing is tying shoes and wiping noses and sweeping up cookie crumbs. Ah, so that's what you do with a BA in English." --carpetofstars

Coming soon: more quotes from the magical land of child logic.

I'm always wishing. Even in non-eyelash moments.
-Noel Crane