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

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

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 

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

I'm Done

“I'm done.

 I don't need anything more out of life.

 I have you, and that's enough.”

~ Alessandra Torre