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26 December 2009 @ 11:43 pm

Prompts for 12/27-1/9

Quotes:
1. "Everybody is weak. Everybody fails. Being strong is fighting. It's hard and it's painful and it's every day."
--Joss Whedon

2. "You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice."
--Chuck Palahniuk

3. "Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?"
--It's A Wonderful Life

4. "One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep."
--Carlos Ruiz Zafon

5. "Perhaps everything would have been different if you had asked me to go out with you to look at the moon, instead of getting up and leaving me alone with her."
--Richard Brautigan

6. "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
–ee cummings

7. "You asked me who I thought I was before. I said maybe a fish because I love water and you said, you thought a mermaid, maybe.
If you were a mermaid, you said, If you were a mermaid, I was the sea."
--Francesca Lia Block

8. "There are no happy endings because nothings ends."
--Peter S. Beagle

9. "It’s an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater luster to our colors, a richer resonance to our words. That is, if it doesn’t destroy us, if it doesn’t burn away the optimism and the spirit, the capacity for visions, and the respect for simple yet indispensable things."
--Anne Rice

10. "To surrender dreams—this may be madness. To seek treasure where there is only trash. Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be."
-Miguel De Cervantes

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05 December 2009 @ 09:15 pm

Prompts for 12/5-12/20

Quotes:
1. "Look, look what you have done to me. Do you think you could have done this if I did not love you?"
--James Baldwin

2. "You love me because I'm fragile, when I thought I was so strong."
--Sara Bareilles

3. "This year, I have committed more faults than ever before and I have never been a better person."
--Victor Hugo

3. "Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."
--Forrest Gump

4. "It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys."
— Sarah Dessen

5. "Love is by definition an unmerited gift; being loved without meriting it is the very proof of real love."
--Milan Kundera

6. "I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn't matter at all."
--Jeanette Winterson

7. "At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkedness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion."
--F. Scott Fitzgerald

8. I'm afraid, in the midst of the age of darkness; so that although we found it easy to be brilliant, we were always confused about being good.
--Salman Rushdie

9. For you, a thousand times over.
--Khaled Hosseini

10. Darling, there are just as many ways of saying goodbye as there are ways of letting you go.
--Cyril Wong

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21 November 2009 @ 08:25 pm

Prompts for 11/22-12/5

Quotes:

1. Don’t you think it’s better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?
-Time Traveler's Wife

2. Maybe who we are isn’t so much about what we do, but rather what we’re capable of when we least expect it.
– Jodi Picoult

3. You die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
-The Dark Knight

4. Sometimes I wish I had never met you. Because then I could go to sleep at night not knowing there was someone like you out there.
-Good Will Hunting

5. It seems right now that all I’ve ever done in my life is make my way here to you.
– The Bridges of Madison County

6. If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn. People die. But real love lives forever.
– The Crow

7. If you had asked me to stay,
I would not have said no.
It would never mean yes.
-Jon Sands

8. You took my hand, and we walked through the streets of an emptied world, vulnerable
to our suddenly bare history in which I was, but you said won't again be, singled
out for loss in your arms, won't ever again be exiled, never again, from your arms.
-Agha Shahid Ali

9. What have you known of loss that makes you different from other men?
- Gilgamesh

10. I’m not finished loving you.
– Grey’s Anatomy

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07 November 2009 @ 11:56 pm

Prompts for 11/8-11/22

Quotes:

1. "A heart is a fragile thing. That's why we protect them so vigorously, give them away so rarely and why it means so much when we do. Some hearts are more fragile than others. Purer somehow. Like crystal in a world of glass, even the way they shatter is beautiful."
-Everwood

2. "There are no certainties where dreams are concerned. Some are achieved, but just as many sputter and die. When they do, it's tempting to wonder why you ever dreamed at all."
-Everwood

3. "There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall."
-Colette

4. "Isn't death the boundary we need? Doesn't it give a precious texture to life, a sense of definition? You have to ask yourself whether anything you do in this life would have beauty and meaning without the knowledge you carry of a final line, a border or limit."
-Don DeLillo

5. "There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore. I am thawing."
-Laurie Halse Anderson

6. "When someone breaks your heart, you stop believing and you switch off the lights inside your heart. Someone is home but that someone is lying in the dark, in the room farthest from the gate, and that someone can’t hear anything."
— M.D. Balangue

7. "I twisted you under and under to break you
I just couldn't breathe with your throne on my chest."
-Furnace Room Lullaby

8. "Some things, however, are true no matter how hard you might try to block them out,
and a lie is always a lie, no matter how prettily told. Some doors, once they’re opened,
can never be closed again, just as some trust, once it’s been lost, can never be won back."
-Alice Hoffman

9. "Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These, our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we'll never get used to it."
-Richard Siken

10. "Hell is other people."
- Jean-Paul Sartre

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25 October 2009 @ 11:43 am

Prompts for 10/25-11/8

Quotes:
1. "Love is what moves the world, I've always thought. It is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down...bring them low...and make them crawl..."
— Stephen King (The Stand)

2. "The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet."
— Stephen King

3. "No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves."
— Stephen King (Wolves of the Calla)

4. "Whether you want it to or not, time takes it all away, time bares it away. And in the end, there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."
— Stephen King

5. "He was a romantic in his own harsh way…yet he was also realist enough to know that some times love actually did conquer all."
— Stephen King (The Drawing of the Three)

6. "Sometimes human places create inhuman monsters."
--Stephen King (The Shining)

7. "We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end we will stand."
--Stephen King (The Drawing of the Three)

8. "The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows."
--Stephan King

9. "We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith."
— Stephen King

10. "Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside of us, and sometimes...they win."
--Stephen King

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10 October 2009 @ 07:13 pm

Prompts for 10/10-10/17

Sorry for the lack of post last week. RL was hectic for your mods. :)

Quotes:

1. You have no right, no right in the world,
to drive through the city
breaking the wings off angels.
-Nicole Blackman

2. To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your life depends on it; and when the time comes, to let it go.
-Mary Oliver

3. Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.
-Mary Oliver

4. It was the year of questions. It was the year of fog over the vineyard.
The year you started falling. A damaged year.
-Veronica Patterson

5. I want the sky to fracture under the impossible weight of an apology because I'm sorry,
I'm sorry that I want so much.
-Shane Koyczan

6. A man takes his sadness and throws it away but then he’s still left with his hands.
-Richard Siken

7. Everything you touched became a wound. You tried to mend what cannot be mended,
You tried, neither foolish nor clumsy, to rescue what cannot be rescued.
-Brian Patten

8. Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
-Khalil Gibran

9. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?
-Jeanette Winterson

10. Forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers home.
-Wislawa Szymborska

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27 September 2009 @ 10:42 pm

Prompts for 9/27-10/3

Quotes:

1. "Something was badly amiss inside the spiritual life of the planet. ...Too many demons inside people claiming to believe in God."
-Salman Rushdie

2. "Tempt not a desperate man."
-William Shakespeare

3. "Nobody can judge an internal injury by the size of the superficial wound, of the hole."
-Salman Rushdie

4. "We've established a cause. We can scan these people and was know what we're looking for Brain chemistry alteration. Cell damage. It's all very clear and scientific now. But I can't help thinking...if such things existed. If we stood in the presence of a real angel. Who's to say that wouldn't cause exactly the same physical damage?"
-- Miranda Zero

5. "Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story."
-Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn

6. "The very constitution of twilight is a fabulous reconstruction of fear, fear bottom-out and wrong side up. Every day is thought upon and calculated, but the night is not premeditated."
-- Nightwood, Djuna Barnes.

7. "Let the devils burn and the angels fall. Let every one of them be crucified as they deserved to be, as every god deserves to be."
--Vellum by Hal Duncan.

8. "You damned her to hell the day you taught her that gods were real. And when the desolate ones have gathered her into their arms -- because that is the choice she's made -- she'll probably thank you for it as she rips out your heart."
--Vellum by Hal Duncan.

9. "A consensus reality can't work without a consensus."
--Vellum by Hal Duncan

10. "Pain is savage. It grabs us and throws us against the wall. We have to lay where it throws us down. It declares itself supreme autocrat. It is ruthless. It holds us so that we may not look away, and it does not respond to pleas that it subside. If it subsides, that is its prerogative. When it insists, it is without mercy.
It is the most undeniable form of god."
-- Marilyn Krysl

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20 September 2009 @ 12:37 am

Prompts for 9/20-9/26

Quotes:

1. "Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that love which took its symmetry for granted when it was whole."
-Derek Walcott

2. "Questions are dangerous, because they have answers."
-Jacqueline Carey

3. "We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes, and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others."
-Albert Camus

4. "Love is never any better than the lover. Wicked people love wickedly, violent people love violently, weak people love weakly, stupid people love stupidly, but the love of a free man is never safe."
-Toni Morrison

5. "My dreams have come true and I'm scared I won't know what to do with them."
-Lorna Landvik.

6. "Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason."
Anton Chekhov

7. "Today, I feel I have nothing but my past left to live."
-Florian Zeller

8. "My weakness was skinned over by your love. I knew when you healed me that the wound would open again, I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice."
-Jeanette Winterson

9. "I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole."
-Carl Jung

10. "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
-Robert Frost

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12 September 2009 @ 11:27 pm

Prompts for 9/13-9/19

Quotes:

1. "Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory... but it has you."
-John Irving

2. "Like everyone, I am alone inside this pearly flesh - and I am afraid."
-Sena Jeter Naslund

3. "When you're young, you think it's going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close - as close as you can get - to another person only makes clear the impassable distance between you."
-Nicole Krauss

4. "There is only one serious question. And that is:
Who knows how to make love stay?"
-Tom Robbins

5. "Those who harbour unthinkable thoughts know in their hearts that they can find a kindred spirit, one who understands the special torture it is to live fractured into pieces, some of them so sharp that to touch them would be to bleed forever."
-Keith Ablow

6. "What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

7. "No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne

8. "It is never too late to be who you might have been."
-George Eliot

9. "Couples should run away from each other, and collapse in a knot."
-Simon Van Booy

10. "Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty interesting questions."
-Woody Allen

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06 September 2009 @ 12:04 am

Prompts for 9/6-9/12

Quotes:
1. "Here’s the truth about the truth: it hurts; so we lie."
-Grey's Anatomy

2. "To be brave is to love someone unconditionally, without expecting anything in return. To just give."
-Madonna

3. "I should tear your eyes out right now, but how would you ever be able to look at yourself in the morning?"
-Little Black Book

4. "Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present."
-Under the Tuscan Sun

5. "Your heart says stay and battle the pain, but your mind says leave for all this isn't needed, broken into pieces for that one and only. But follow your heart beacause the heart can only take so much."
-Jamila M. Allen

6. "Swallow the key to your heart. It's only over until we choose to forgive them."
-The Bled

7. "I don't get it. Why would you kill the thing you loved?"
"You kill it before it kills you."
-Janet Fitch

8. "Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves."
-Chuck Palahniuk

9. "I laughed and said, life is easy. What I meant was, life is easy with you here, and when you leave, it will be hard again."
-- miranda july.

10. "Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn’t ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn’t your own anymore."
-Neil Gaiman

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30 August 2009 @ 12:38 pm

Prompts for 8/30-9/5

Quotes:

1. And the question will be:
When the time comes, do you want to be saved?
--Jack Banning

2. You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear.
And you keep going.
--Geraldine Brooks

3. If you bring forth what is within you, what is within you will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what is within you will destroy you.
--Gnostic Gospels

4. Men have forgotten this truth. But you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.
--The Little Prince

5. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially.
--Ernest Hemingway

6. In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime.
It's the difference between the path you walk and one you leave behind;
It's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are.
--Jodi Picoult

7. I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps. It stays in my spine the rest of my life.
--Conor Oberst

7. The greatest tragedy of all is letting invisibility win. It's choosing to give up the thing you want most because you think you don't deserve it.
--Beth Kephart

8. There would be no passion in this world if we never had to fight for what we love.
--Susie Switzer

9. I've never thought of you like that. How could I? You've always seemed to me like a part of myself, and it would be like saying I loved my own eyes or my own mind. But have you ever thought of what it would be to have to live without your mind or your eyes? To be mad? Or blind?
--Elizabeth Pope

10. Remember, my sentimental friend, that you will be judged not by how much you love, but by how much you are loved.
--The Wizard of Oz

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22 August 2009 @ 11:27 pm

Prompts for 8/23-8/29

Quotes:

1. "And there are other memories, still looking for
something to bite,
like fierce, unsatisfied teeth.
They gnaw us to the last bone, devouring
the long silence of all that lies behind us."
-Pablo Neruda

2. "The question is not why fools fall in love. It is expected of them. When smart people fall in love - that's the problem."
-Jessica Zafra

3. "...You know when you pray, you are heard, if not by God, then by yourself. When you pray, you tell yourself what you truly want, what you really need. And once you know these things, you can do nothing but go after them."
-Helen Oyeyemi.

4. It's not
what goes into
your mouth that defiles you but
what comes out of it.
- Franz Wright.

5. …But why is desire suffering?
Because want leaves a world in tatters?
How else but in tatters should a world be?
Maria Elena Cruz Varela

6. “A year, ten years from now, I'll remember this; not why, only that we were here like this, together.”
- Adrienne Rich

7. "Revenge is never a straight line. It's a forest, And like a forest it's easy to lose your way... To get lost... To forget where you came in."
-Kill Bill

8. "There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."
-- Wilde

9. "Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within."
-- Stephen Jay Gould

10. "Only barbarians forget about their fallen."
-Aleksey Shelvakh.

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16 August 2009 @ 11:32 am

Prompts for 8/16-8/22

Quotes:

1. "I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else. "
— Jonathan Safran Foer

2. "I have been alone for a very long time. I'm locked up in a room and I can't get out. Because I've been locked up in this room so long whatever desires are arising in me are rampaging around everywhere as wild and fierce and monstrous as gigantic starving jungle beasts."
-Kathy Acker

3. "Lovers find their way by such insights and confidences: they're the stars we use to navigate the oceans of desire. And the brightest of those stars are the heartbreaks and sorrows. The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering. So I took each sadness and pinned it to the sky."
-Gregory David Roberts

4. "Travel and you leave yourself, escape your soul, fasten your skin against that great, numb blur of motion that puts everything to sleep."
-AL Kennedy

5. "Power does not corrupt. Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible."
-Frank Herbert

6. "The absence of fighting or hatred or desire also means the opposites do not exist either. No joy, no communion, no love. Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope."
Haruki Murakami

7. "The goal of life is to take everything that made you weird as a kid and get people to pay you money for it when you're older."
-David Freeman

8. "Grief is a most peculiar thing; we're so helpless in the face of it. It's like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver."
- Arthur Golden

9. "No one can pull anyone back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remained unsaved."
-Alice Sebold

10. "In the land of memory, the time is always now."
- Stephen King

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08 August 2009 @ 09:00 pm

Prompts for 8/9-8/15

Quotes:

1. "You try to warn him, you tell him
you will want to get inside him, and ruin him,
but he doesn't listen.
You do this, you do. You take the things you love
and tear them apart
or you pin them down with your body and pretend they're yours."
-Richard Siken

2. "Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose."
Joseph Brodsky

3. "This is the way to burn," the fuse seemed to be saying to the more docile, slow-witted candlewick. "Brilliantly, ecstatically, irrepressibly. This is the way to burn."
-Tom Robbins

4. "Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel."
-Alexander Pope

5. "Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged."
-Lawrence Durrell

6. "Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
-Kahlil Gibran

7. "90% of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves."
- Sydney J. Harris

8. "If your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you."
-Yann Martel

9. "You can go home again...so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been."
-Ursula K. LeGuin

10. "I want to know what you see when you look at me. I want to know the thing that scares you more than anything else in the world. I want to know what you look like when you fall asleep. I want to be there when you wake up."
-Jodi Picoult

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01 August 2009 @ 10:57 pm

Prompts for 8/2-8/8

Quotes:

1. "That is why my feelings always come in twos. That is why I am like a man who tears up a letter and then has second thoughts, picking up the pieces and pasting them together again with great pains. Sometimes for the rest of his life."
-Yehuda Amichai

2. "Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell."
-Emily Dickinson

3. "This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in."
-Jeanette Winterson

4. "That's life for you. Someone always waiting for someone who never comes home. Always someone loving some thing more than that thing loves them. And after a while you want to destroy whatever that thing is, so it can't hurt you no more."
-Ray Bradbury

5. "All the world will be your enemy, Prince With A Thousand Enemies, if they catch you, they will kill you... But first they must catch you."
- Richard Adams

6. "By day I praised you
and never knew it.
By night I stayed with you
and never knew it.
I always thought that
I was me--but no,
I was you
and never knew it."
-Rumi

7. "God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves."
-Barbara Kingsolver

8. "Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?"
-George Sand

9. Dan: I love you.
Alice: Where?
Dan: What?
Alice: Show me. Where is this 'love'?
I can't see it, I can't touch it, I can't feel it.
I can hear it, I can hear some words but I can't do anything with your easy words.
-Patrick Marber

10. "No matter how much you know, no matter how much you think, no matter how much you plot and you connive and you plan, you're not superior to sex. It's a very risky game. A man wouldn't have two-thirds of the problems he has if he didn't venture off to get fucked."
-Philip Roth

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25 July 2009 @ 11:06 pm

Prompts for 7/26-8/1

Most of these quotes came at the suggestion of the amazingly talented writers at

beyondtherift. I can't begin to explain how wonderful they are. Thank you so much! <3

Quotes:

1. "What is family? They were the people who claimed you. In good, in bad, in parts or in whole, they were the ones who showed up, who stayed in there, regardless. It wasn't just about blood relations or shared chromosomes, but something wider, bigger. We had many families over time. Our family of origin, the family we created, as well as the groups you moved through while all of this was happening: friends, lovers, sometimes even strangers."
-Sarah Dessen

2. "What I am learning to give you is my death
to set you free of me, and me from myself."
- Wendell Berry

3. "We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime, keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inqueries say "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps us, and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts--not to hurt others."
--George Eliot, "Middlemarch"

4. He said," Dance for me." And he said," You are too beautiful for the wind to pick at or the sun to burn." He said," I am a poor tattered thing but not unkind to the sad dancer, and the dancing dead."
--Sydney Keyes, Four Postures of Death

5. I pressed my lips against his ear and whispered again, It's not your fault. Perhaps this was really the only thing I had ever wanted to say to anyone in the world.
-Miranda July

6. We are terrible for eachother and yes ; we are a disaster.
but tell me your heart doesn't race for a hurricane or burning building.
-www.asofterworld.com

7. Bullfight critics row on row
Crowd the vast arena full
But only one man's there who knows
And he's the man who fights the bull.
--anonymous

8. The first requisite for immortality is death.
--Stanislaw J. Lec

9. When we remember we are mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
--Mark Twain

10. We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 A.M. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
--Joan Didion

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19 July 2009 @ 03:28 am

Prompts for 7/19-7/25

1. "We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives, that it is inside ourselves."
-Albert Camus

2. "The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."
-Rumi

3. "I drink to drown my sorrows, but the damned things have learned to swim."
- Frida Kahlo

4. "The knowledge that you have emerged wiser and stronger from setbacks means that you are, ever after, secure in your ability to survive. You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity."
-J.K. Rowling

5. "No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should've been paying attention."
-Chuck Palahniuk

6. "I think you're a realist masquerading as a cynic who is secretly an optimist."
-Hitch

7. "Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?"
-Haruki Murakami

8. It's like one thousand paper cuts soaked in vinegar. Like the battles with yourself that leave you insecure. It's all just a numbing charade until the day you finally wake up, and you are not afraid.
-The Spill Canvas

9. "The bad thing about falling to pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards there is nothing left to protect, and so you have no reason not to be honest."
-David James Duncan

10. "Even now, if I saw you only once
I would long for you through worlds,
worlds."
-Izumi Shikibu

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12 July 2009 @ 04:28 pm

Prompts for 7/12-7/18

Quotes:

1. There was never a right time to say it.
It was always unnecessary.
There would be other nights.
And how can you say I love you to someone you love?
(Here is the point of everything I have been trying to tell you, child.
It is always necessary.)
-Jonathan Foer

2. All your life you are told the things you cannot do.
They will tell you no, a thousand times no, until all the no's become meaningless. All your life they will tell you no, quite firmly and very quickly.
And you will tell them yes.
-Nike Ad

3. Sometimes in love there's no simple fix. Sometimes you just have to hang on… and lead with your heart.
- The Wonder Years

4. Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, sometimes she loved me too.
-Pablo Neruda

5. You're waiting for someone to put you together.
You're waiting for someone to push you away.
There's always another wound to discover.
There's always something more you wish he'd say.
-Vertical Horizon

6. My heart… it feels like my chest can barely contain it. Like it’s trying to escape because it doesn't belong to me any more. It belongs to you.
-Stardust

7. You can kiss in a dream and it doesn't mean anything. You can have sex in a dream and it doesn't mean anything. You know, you can have sex in real life and it still wouldn't mean anything.
What I Like About You

8. There's a big fucking world out there. It's messy, and it's chaotic, and it's never, ever what you expect. It's okay to be scared but you cannot allow your fears to turn you into an asshole, not when it comes to the people that really love you, the people that need you.
-Land of Women

9. There would be no passion in this world if we never had to fight for what we love.
-Suzie Switzer

10. And they say, don’t regret something that once made you smile.
But when that one thing makes both of us hurt, I regret it.
Every day of my life.
-Unknown

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05 July 2009 @ 01:56 pm

Prompts for 7/5-7/11

Quotes:

1. "In any case life is but a procession of shadows, and God knows why it is that we embrace them so eagerly, and see them depart with such anguish, being shadows."
-Jacob's Room

2. "Sometimes someone can mean so much to you, that not even the truth can change your mind."
-Unknown

3. There’s a kind of emptiness that can fill you.
There’s a kind of hunger that can eat you up.
There’s a cold and darker side of the moonlight.
And there’s a lonely side of love.
-Nickel Creek

4. "If you’re always looking for reasons not to be with someone, then you find them. But at some point you just have to let go, and give your heart what it deserves."
-One Tree Hill

5. "You have a way of coming easily to me, and when you take, you take the very best of me."
Taylor Swift

6. "I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions."
-Augusten Burroughs

7. She has always been like this when she's sad, like she wants to be pressed to me but also distant, next to me and far away from me at the same time. Like she is practicing being gone.
-Brad Barkley and Heather Hepler

8. There's a difference in what we long for
what we settle for
and who we are meant for.
-The Notebook-

9. You are all my reasons.
-A Beautiful Mind

10. "Romance is dead - it was acquired in a hostile takeover by Hallmark and Disney, homogenized, and sold off piece by piece."
-The Simpsons

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28 June 2009 @ 03:09 am

Prompts for 6/28-7/4

Quotes:

1. "Spinning like a ghost, I'm haunted by all the space that I will live without you."
-Richard Braughtigan

2. "Putting up a fight without a decent chance of winning is a poor game, and I'm not that sort of hero."
-James Hilton

3. "I am like a room where things once happened and now nothing does, except the pollen of the weeds that grow up outside the window, blowing in as dust across the floor."
-Margaret Atwood.

4. "It was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us. But within that inch we are free."
-Alan Moore

5. "To live and breathe is nothing. To want to live and breathe is everything."
-Timothy Findley

6. "I'll pursue solitary pathways through the pale twilit meadows, with only this one dream: You come too."
-Rilke

7. "I'm not the least concerned with salvation because I'm not convinced there's anything to be saved from."
-Tom Robbins

8. "This is something we all take for granted, but no matter how bad things get, the moment you are denied air you fight for it."
-Lloyd Jones

9. I am someone else when I'm with you, someone more like myself.
-Original Sin

10. She never was here. You were with a dream. A dream that stole your soul. God must have been angry with you the day he let you look in that woman's face.
-Original Sin

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