She's it. All right, so maybe not "it" it. Not necessarily Ms. Right, but closer to Ms. Right - up - there - with - Anna - Kournikova - and - Lizzie - McGuire - on - your - list - of - people - you'd - give - anything - to - be - stranded - with - on - a - broken - down - elevator. But it's about more than that. When is it ever about more than that? Never. Not like frilly white dress, overpriced catering, embarrassing drunk in-laws more, but closer to UMass sweatpants, two D.P. Dough Roni Zonies, a futon and a movie you have no interest in seeing more. But she doesn't know.
The Daily Collegian at UMASS, written by Matt Brochu in 2003

Oh Marie if you would stay then we could stick pins in the map
Of all the places where you thought that love would be found
But I would only need one pin to show where my heart's at
In a top secret location three hundred feet under the ground
- Josh Ritter, The Temptation of Adam

We both stopped talking. Part of his sleeve was touching my arm; I don't know if he knew. Then everything started to seem perfect for some reason. The feel of his shirt against my elbow, the fact that I still had an elbow... It was the perfect moment for him to kiss me, for him to anything me.
- My So-Called Life

But you're a writer. You can describe anything. That's what you do: pictures to words, events to words, words to even better words. But nothing seems right. More like you're afraid that if you stare at her for too long, you'll prove your parents right: that yes, your face will stick that way. But you wouldn't mind.
The Daily Collegian at UMASS, written by Matt Brochu in 2003

You don't have to take life the way it comes to you. You can design your life to come to you the way you want it. -Dan Zadra

Sometimes it’s a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and still be fascinated by their presence. -David Byrne

i know you are waiting
and i know that it is not for me
i'm here and i'm ready
and i saved you the passenger seat
-josh ritter, kathleen

You save yourself or you remain unsaved.
— Alice Sebold

Can he really love her? Can the soul really be satisfied with such polite affections? To love is to burn, to be on fire, all full of passion...
- Sense and Sensibility

The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we're alone. -Mitch Albom

Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. -Viktor Frankl

Not so much two ships passing in the night as two ships sailing together for a time but always bound for different ports. -P.D. James, The Lighthouse

In another time, in another place all things might have been in place. But for now I'm finding myself right here standing on a rooftop screaming. "Hey world are you listening... listening to me?" I'm here and I'm hurting to begin again.
-Alkaline Trio

Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.
— Ann Patchett, Bel Canto

That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it. -Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

He seemed to be waiting for me to move forward. Weren't we all.
— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

it's never enough

to stay still and hold you

to break loose and run

the taste of you, wild on my tongue

am i no good to you now?

-matt nathanson, falling apart

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. -J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

-James Thurber

I turned on the radio and found a station playing "Hey Jude." It was true, I didn't want to make it bad. I wanted to make it better. It's just that I didn't know how.
-Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase. -Martin Luther King Jr.

His words are like the sound of a needle dragging across a record. A sinking, sickening feeling washes over me. This is why you should never get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So when the whole things spills, you arent' as devastated.
-Emily Giffin, Something Borrowed

Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what the world asks of you is courage, courage to risk rejection, ridicule and failure. As you follow the quest for stories told with meaning and beauty, study thoughtfully but write boldly. -Robert McKee

Go then, there are other worlds than these.
— Stephen King, The Gunslinger

If that's all you will be, you'll be a waste of time
You've dreamed a thousand dreams, none seem to stick in your mind
Two points for honesty
It must make you sad to know that nobody cares at all
- Guster, Two Points for Honesty

We're cleaning the windows between us two
Funny, you do it once, and then again, and pretty soon
The fingerprints and dust...
But I've begun to trust the view here
- The Weepies, Slow Pony Home

But don't you think that 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? -Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler's Wife

Real integrity is doing the right thing knowing that nobody is going to know whether you did it or not.
–Oprah Winfrey

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. -Victor Frankl

I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
-Jim Croce

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other. -Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

And I realized at that moment that I really did love her. Because there was nothing to gain and that didn't matter.
- Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky

Sometimes love isn't firecrackers. Sometimes love just comes softly.
- Love Comes Softly

half of my heart's got a grip on the situation

half of my heart takes time.

- john mayer, half of my heart

In my old life, I longed for someone to see what was special in me. You did, and for that, you'll always be in my heart. But what I really needed was for me to see it. And now I do. You're a good man, Tom. But you live in a world that has no place for someone like me. -Catwoman

You were there when I needed you without me even having to ask.

- Scrubs

I know he's watching me; I can see him through the cracks. His eyes are small and shy on my back.
- Ani Difranco, 4th of July

A good friend is a connection to life―a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world. -Lois Wyse

I'd rather spend the rest of my life cooking for one than being with someone who can do without me.
- Everwood

Every dreamer knows that its entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.
- Judith Thurman

I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling.
- Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

Every time she does something that tells you she's no good, you ignore it. And every time she comes through and surprises you, she wins you over, and you lose that argument with yourself, that she's not for you.-The Holiday

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
-Oscar Wilde