May 2012
April 2012
“Forget about your lists and do what you can because that’s all you can do. Phone up the people you miss and tell them you love them. Hug those close to you as hard as you can. Because you are always only a drunk driver’s stupidity, a nervous shopkeeper’s mistake, a doctor’s best attempts and an old age away from forever.”
—I Wrote This for You
“I made a lot of mistakes before I got to you (each one honest and none that I regret). The same way a tree bends in the wind and twists and turns, before it can touch the sky.”
—I Wrote This for You
“And I’d study the science of you ‘til I turned it into an art. The way your atoms rub together. Molecules colliding. Chemistry building. Explosions of heat and radiation. Burning like a star at the end of the world.”
—I Wrote This for You
“If you knew how much trouble the universe went to for us to be here, now, standing in front of each other, you’d know we’re going to have to be careful. Plankton and plants and canals, a hundred suns, a thousand sailing ships, ten thousand civilizations, a million, million, million first kisses from all our mothers and fathers. We owe it to them, to be careful.”
—I Wrote This for You
“Today I let the mask slip just a little and all the villains come flooding in. While I don’t expect you, as a book filled with lines, to understand my predicament, understand that I will be home late tonight. There will be blood on my costume. And the dishes will have to wait.”
—I Wrote This for You
“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. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
—Haruki Murakami
“Some people say that love doesn’t last forever. But I’ve met other people. And while over the decades their bodies have forgotten the ideas of who they were, their heads remember their hearts. Maybe they didn’t love forever, just a lifetime. But they still make liars of those people. You and I can make liars of them too.”
—I Wrote This for You
“You should know that there is something worse than hate and that is unlove. Because hate is anger over something lost, hate is passion, hate is misguided, it’s caring for the wrong things but it is still caring. But unlove, unlove is to unkiss, to unremember, to unhold, to undream, to undo everything that ever was and leave smooth stone behind in its wake. No fire. No fury. Just, nothing. And that is worse than hate.”
—I Wrote This for You
“The light we see from the moon when we look at it at night left its surface just over a second ago; the light we see from the sun left its surface just over eight minutes ago. Some of the stars that make up the constellations we see in the night sky are hundreds of light years away, which means the light we see left them centuries ago. For me it’s astonishing that every time you look up at the night sky you are gazing back through time.”
—Dr. Griffin
“What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.”
—Chuck Palahniuk
