Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Women Writers


“Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. 
They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; 
yet they never hold their tongues too long, 
nor keep ardent typing fingers still.”

~ Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

Tuesday, March 12, 2024

It Seems To Me


“It seems to me that if you place music 
(and books, probably, and films, and plays, 
and anything that makes you feel) 
at the center of your being, 
then you can’t afford to sort out your love life, 
start to think of it as the finished product. 
You’ve got to pick at it, 
keep it alive and in turmoil, 
you’ve got to pick at it and unravel it 
until it all comes apart
 and you’re compelled to start all over again.
 Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, 
those of us who absorb emotional things all day,
 and as a consequence we can never feel merely content:
 we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically,
 head-over-heels happy, 
and those states are difficult to achieve 
within a stable, solid relationship.”

~ Nick Hornby

Tuesday, March 5, 2024

If I Lived A Million Lives


“If I lived a million lives, 
I would've felt a million feelings 
and I still would've fallen a million times for you.”

~ Robert M. Drake

Tuesday, February 27, 2024

Madness


“Madness and chaos are self-destructing 
but overthinking is the suicide.”

~ Robert M. Drake

Tuesday, February 20, 2024

Tuesday, February 13, 2024

You Know Why


“You know why people pair up into couples? 
Because being a human is fucking terrifying. 
But it's a hell of a lot easier if you're not doing it by yourself.”

~ Alice Oseman, Loveless

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

You Get Lonely Is What It Is


“You get lonely, is what it is. 
A person's not supposed to go through life with absolutely nobody. 
It's not normal. 
The longer you go by yourself the weirder you get, 
and the weirder you get the longer you go by yourself. 
It's a loop and you gotta do something to get out of it.”

~ Jim Shepard

Tuesday, January 30, 2024

There Are So Many Movies Like This


“There are so many movies like this, 
where you thought you were smarter than the screen 
but the director was smarter than you, 
of course he's the one, 
of course it was a dream, 
of course she's dead, 
of course, it's hidden right there, 
of course it's the truth and you in your seat 
have failed to notice in the dark.”

~ Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up

Tuesday, January 23, 2024

You'll Blow Up A Helicopter


“You'll blow up a helicopter, but you won't go out with me?
 What is wrong with you?”

~ Meg Cabot, When Lightning Strikes

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

There Are So Many Movies


“There are so many movies like this, 
where you thought you were smarter than the screen 
but the director was smarter than you, 
of course he's the one, of course it was a dream, 
of course she's dead, of course, it's hidden right there, 
of course it's the truth and you in your seat 
have failed to notice in the dark.”

~ Daniel Handler, Why We Broke Up 

Monday, January 8, 2024

Love Him


“Love him,’ said Jacques, with vehemence,
 ‘love him and let him love you. 
Do you think anything else 
under heaven really matters? 
And how long, at the best, can it last, 
since you are both men 
and still have everywhere to go? 
Only five minutes, I assure you, only five minutes, 
and most of that, helas! in the dark. 
And if you think of them as dirty, 
then they will be dirty— 
they will be dirty because you will be giving nothing,
 you will be despising your flesh and his. 
But you can make your time together anything but dirty, 
you can give each other something which will make both of you better—
forever—if you will not be ashamed, if you will only not play it safe.’ 
He paused, watching me, and then looked down to his cognac. 
‘You play it safe long enough,’ he said, in a different tone, 
‘and you’ll end up trapped in your own dirty body, 
forever and forever and forever—
like me.”

~ James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

Monday, January 1, 2024

I'm Done


“I'm done.
 I don't need anything more out of life.
 I have you, and that's enough.”

~ Alessandra Torre

Monday, December 25, 2023

Was It Necessary


“Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?'
The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly.
Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says 
when he's in love with you.'
Didn't you mean them?'
At the moment.”

~ W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

Monday, December 18, 2023

I Used To Think


“I used to think -- and given the way we ended up,
maybe I still do -- that all relationships 
need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings,
just to get you started and to push you over the humps.
And then, when the energy from that shove has gone
and you come to something approaching a halt,
you have to look around and see what you've got.
It could be something completely different,
it could be something roughly the same,
but gentler and calmer,
or it could be nothing at all.”


~ Nick Hornby, High Fidelity