Saturday, September 5, 2009

Pablo Neruda

"I crave your mouth, your voice, your scent.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps."

Pablo Neruda

Stephanie Meyer

"Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you. I'd been broken beyond repair."

"When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, is it not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end?"

"If I could dream at all it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it."

"I'm here . . . which roughly translated means I would rather die than stay away from you. I'm an idiot."

"I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars."

"Love is irrational, I reminded myself. The more you loved someone, the less sense anything made."

"You are my life. You're the only thing it would hurt to lose."

"I can't live in a world where you don't exist."

"Still, in that instant, I felt well. Whole. I could feel my heart racing in my chest. The blood pulsing hot and fast through my veins. I was perfect - not healed, but as if there had been no wound in the first place. It was like there had never been a hole in my chest at all."

AA Milne

"Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That's the problem."

"'It's snowing still,' said Eeyore gloomily.
"So it is"
"And freezing"
"Is it?"
"Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven't had an earthquake lately.""

"I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart for so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time."

"I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true"

"If you live to be 100 I want to live to be 100 to, minus one day so I never have live without you."

"I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget."

"Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo."

"'I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
"No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.'"

"Think, think, think."

"What I like doing best is nothing.
“How do you do nothing,” asked Pooh after he had wondered for a long time.
“Well, it’s when people call out at you just as you’re going off to do it, ‘What are you going to do, Christopher Robin?’ and you say,”Oh, nothing,” and then you go and do it."

"Friendship, said Christopher Robin, is a very comforting thing to have."

"Sometimes it’s the smallish things that take up the most room in our hearts."

"Rivers know this there is no hurry. We shall get there some day. "

"When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen."

"One does not argue about The Wind in the Willows. The young man gives it to the girl with whom he is in love, and, if she does not like it, asks her to return his letters. The older man tries it on his nephew, and alters his will accordingly. The book is a test of character. We can't criticize it, because it is criticizing us. But I must give you one word of warning. When you sit down to it, don't be so ridiculous as to suppose that you are sitting in judgment on my taste, or on the art of Kenneth Grahame. You are merely sitting in judgment on yourself. You may be worthy: I don't know, But it is you who are on trial."

AA Milne

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Marilynne Robinson

"To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow. For when does a berry break upon the tongue as sweetly as when one longs to taste it, and when is the taste refracted into so many hues and savors of ripeness and earth, and when do our senses know any thing so utterly as when we lack it? And here again is a foreshadowing -- the world will be made whole. For to wish for a hand on one's hair is all but to feel it. So whatever we may lose, very craving gives it back to us again."

Marilynne Robinson

Mitch Albom

"Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back."

Mitch Albom

Jeanette Winterson

"You’ll get over it. It’s the clichés that cause the trouble.
To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever.
You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never loses. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. 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

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

James Baldwin

"Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up."

James Baldwin

Stephenie Meyer

"I told you I'm not going anywhere. Don't be afraid. As long as it makes you happy, I'll be here."

Stephenie Meyer

Barbara Kingsolver

"The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof."

Barbara Kingsolver

Chuck Palahniuk

"It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness.
We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace."

Chuck Palahniuk

Jonathan Swift

"May you live every day of your life."

Jonathan Swift

J.K. Rowling

"Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure."

J.K. Rowling