Monday, May 25, 2009

...but even if girls find you handsome, that is not a license to be mean. Be nice.

Charley's mom; For One More Day by Mitch Albom

Sunday, January 11, 2009

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
--Gandhi

Saturday, January 10, 2009

We're not finished yet. I'm not finished loving you.
--Jeremy West (Marshall Allman); this episode of Grey's Anatomy.

Saturday, January 3, 2009

At the temple, there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.
--Sayuri; Memoirs of a Geisha.

Sunday, September 14, 2008

With you I spin like a globe and an arrow/Pointing to all the places I have not been yet.
--Yasmine

Friday, August 29, 2008

Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.
--Houssaye
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
--Rumi

Thursday, August 14, 2008

Where troubles melt like lemon drops
Away above the chimney tops
That's where you'll find me
--Over the Rainbow; words by E. Y. Harburg

Monday, July 14, 2008

...but strong feelings make you remember strange things and weird tales.
--Awang Goneng; Growing Up in Trengganu

Thursday, July 10, 2008

People universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck or something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather. That’s not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it.
--Elizabeth Gilbert; Eat, Pray, Love

Sunday, June 15, 2008

unknown existence
undiscovered beauty
that's how you are
so far
but
one dawn
just like a sun
right from within
you will arise
--Rumi

Tuesday, June 3, 2008

She smiles. "That was my trip when I was little. I wanted to be a beautician when I grew up."
I laugh. "But you couldn't hack it, so you became an artist."
"I met Gomez and realized that nobody ever overthrew the bourgeois capitalist misogynist corporate operating system by perming its hair."
--Charisse and Clare; The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Monday, June 2, 2008


(Someday We'll Know - Mandy Moore feat. Jonathan Foreman)

90 miles outside Chicago
Can't stop driving
I don't know why
So many questions
I need an answer
Two years later
You're still on my mind

Whatever happened to Amelia Earhart
Who holds the stars up in the sky
Is true love once in a lifetime
Did the captain of the Titanic cry

Chorus:
Someday we'll know
If love can move a mountain
Someday we'll know
Why the sky is blue
Someday we'll know
Why I wasn't meant for you

Does anybody know the way to Atlantis
Or what the wind says when she cries
I'm speeding by the place that I met you
For the 97th time tonight

(Chorus)

Someday we'll know
Why Samson loved Delilah
One day I'll go
Dancing on the moon
Someday you'll know
That I was the one for you

I bought a ticket to the end of the rainbow
I watched the stars crash in the sea
If I could ask God just one question
Why aren't you here with me?

(Chorus)

Someday we'll know
Why Samson loved Delilah
One day I'll go
Dancing on the moon
Someday you'll know
That I was the one for you
I told Ing once that she dances like a German and she didn't like it, but it's true: she dances seriously, like lives are hanging in the balance, like precision dancing can save the starving children in India.
--Henry; The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger