[trinkets and toffees]

2012-01-21T22:47:00.004+08:00

The fact that I could travel halfway across the world and meet people like Javad and Isma'il made me feel, in a strange way, safe; they reminded me that it was possible to encounter home in many different places.

The Butterfly Mosque by G. Willow Wilson

2012-01-21T22:36:00.002+08:00

Sometimes I think about leaving, then I wonder whether I could be happy in another place, even if it was more organized and less of a pain.

Sameh; The Butterfly Mosque by G. Willow Wilson

2009-05-25T17:36:00.001+08:00

...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

2009-01-11T17:47:00.000+08:00

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

2009-01-10T18:01:00.002+08:00

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

2009-01-03T22:49:00.004+08:00

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.

2008-09-14T13:25:00.000+08:00

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

2008-08-29T22:42:00.000+08:00

Tell me whom you love and I will tell you who you are.
--Houssaye

2008-08-29T22:32:00.001+08:00

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

2008-08-14T23:03:00.002+08:00

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

2008-07-14T05:44:00.004+08:00

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

2008-07-10T19:39:00.003+08:00

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

2008-06-15T19:56:00.002+08:00

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

2008-06-03T01:35:00.002+08:00

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

2008-06-02T17:48:00.003+08:00

(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

2008-06-02T14:01:00.004+08:00

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

2008-06-02T13:59:00.002+08:00

I wanted to listen to the world being normal for a little while longer.
--Henry; The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

2008-05-29T21:53:00.005+08:00

He made the boxes because he was lonely. He didn't have anyone to love, and he made the boxes so he could love them, and so people would know that he existed, and because birds are free and the boxes are hiding places for the birds so they will feel safe, and he wanted to be free and be safe. The boxes are for him so he can be a bird.
--Alba on Joseph Cornell's Aviary boxes; The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

2008-05-29T21:48:00.003+08:00

"Bien joué, une fille," Dr. Montague says. "She is sucking her thumb. She is very pretty. And very big."
Clare and I exhale. On the screen a pretty galaxy is sucking her thumb. As we watch she takes her hand away from her mouth. Dr. Montague says, "She smiles." And so do we.
--Henry; The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

2008-05-29T21:37:00.001+08:00

"Don't look," says Gomez. "None of this is real. We're just testing one of Charisse's virtual reality games. We call it 'Parenthood.'"
--The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

2008-05-29T11:09:00.004+08:00

We're attempting to buy a house. Shopping for houses is amazing. People who would never invite you into their homes under any other circumstances open their doors wide, allow you to peer into their closets, pass judgment on their wallpaper, ask pointed questions about their gutters.
--Clare; The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

2008-05-25T17:11:00.003+08:00

You can still be cool when you're dead. In fact, it's much easier, because you aren't getting old and fat and losing your hair.
--Henry; The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

2008-05-25T13:41:00.004+08:00

"Loan me your beach towel." She picks it up and all the pens and pencils and papers go flying. She throws it at me, overhand, and I grab it and turn my back as I stand and wrap it around my waist. It is bright pink and orange with a loud geometric pattern. Exactly the sort of thing you'd want to be wearing when you meet your future wife for the first time.
--Henry; The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

2008-05-25T13:39:00.002+08:00

Everything seems simple until you think about it. Why is love intensified by absence?
--Clare; The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

2008-05-25T13:37:00.003+08:00

I hate to be where she is not, when she is not. And yet I am always going, and she cannot follow.
--Henry; The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

2008-05-24T15:39:00.002+08:00

I knew I knew you.
--Billy to Bridget; The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares.

2008-05-24T15:30:00.005+08:00

Different people were good at different things, Lena mused. Lena was good at writing thank-you notes, for instance, and Effie was good at being happy.
--The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares

2008-05-23T22:20:00.005+08:00

She sat on her windowsill for a long time and looked at the three-quarter moon. It was the same moon shining on Bee and Carmen and Tibby and Kostos and Bapi and all the people she loved, near and far.
--The Second Summer of the Sisterhood by Ann Brashares