(in)significant moments

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2010-01-19T07:59:00.000-08:00

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
— Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

2010-01-18T22:55:00.000-08:00

I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meats a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down men other-centered can build up. -Martin Luther King Jr.

2010-01-18T20:54:00.001-08:00

You and I are a story

That never gets told.

Taylor Swift, Stay Beautiful

2010-01-18T11:15:00.000-08:00

I've got
a big fat fuckin' bone to pick
with you my darling.
In case you haven't heard I'm sick
and tired of trying.
-Alkaline Trio, Radio

2010-01-18T10:53:00.000-08:00

Wandering the house like I've never wanted out and this is about as social as I get now.
And I'm throwing away the letters that I am writing you 'cause they would never do, I would never do.
-Dashboard Confessional

2010-01-17T19:07:00.000-08:00

Hey, I don't have all the answers. In life, to be honest, I've failed as much as I've succeeded. But I love my wife. I love my life. And I wish you, my kind of successes. -Cameron Crowe

2010-01-16T15:43:00.000-08:00

I believe in the power of love, and I believe there is always hope.

- Naomi Judd

2010-01-16T12:25:00.000-08:00

Love imperfectly. Keep surprise close at hand. Make lots of mistakes. Be willing to live in between right and wrong. -SARK

2010-01-15T09:04:00.001-08:00

You're trying to fight gravity on a planet that insists that love is like falling, and falling is like this.
-Ani DiFranco, Falling Is Like This

2010-01-15T08:42:00.000-08:00

i've always avoided fights. i make jokes instead. i tell people what they want to hear in order to avoid a confrontation. i pretend to want things i don't want, and i pretend not to want things i do want. no one gets hurt. except me. the lines are so crossed and blurred at the point that i don't know what i want. i just know i want it to be easy.
girls' poker night by jill a davis

2010-01-14T10:22:00.000-08:00

you always said that I was hiding, that I was hiding from you
but you are capable of things I could not do
I remember how you pretended ...
how you pretended to touch me
I remember how I couldn't bring myself to believe ...
I remember wondering, what was wrong? what was wrong?
how could I be so naive?
- ani difranco, letting the telephone ring

2010-01-14T10:17:00.000-08:00

What bugs me is that you believe what you're saying. What bothers me is that you don't know how you feel. What scares me is that while you're telling me stories, you actually believe that they are real.
- Ani DiFranco As Is

2010-01-14T09:33:00.000-08:00

Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe. -Rev Albert Lewis

2010-01-13T13:33:00.000-08:00

punch the clock, head for home
check the phone, just in case
go to bed, dream of you
that's what i'm doing these days.
-Rascal Flatts, These Days

2010-01-13T09:23:00.000-08:00

It's no secret that I like to get to know people-and not just the outside stuff of their lives. I like to try to understand the meaning of who people are and what they're saying to me. -Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers

2010-01-12T11:04:00.001-08:00

We stood at the altar, repeating our vows for life: For better or worse, forever a husband and wife. Love's not always easy and dreams don't all come true. Why'd you lose your faith in me? I never gave up on you.
- Toby Keith, You Don't Anymore

2010-01-11T10:17:00.000-08:00

I’d sail away, I’d see the world, I’d reach the farthest reaches
I’d feel the wind, I’d taste the salt and sea.
And maybe storm some beaches.
That’s who I’d be. That’s who I’d be.
-Who I'd Be, Shrek the Musical

2010-01-11T09:02:00.000-08:00

I'll always kiss you like kissing you is all I am allowed to do. -Tyler Knott Gregson

2010-01-11T08:54:00.001-08:00

Life is a difficult assignment. We are fragile creatures, expected to function at high rates of speed, and asked to accomplish great and small things each day. These daily activities take enormous amounts of energy. Most things are out of our control. We are surrounded by danger, frustration, grief, and insanity as well as love, hope, ecstasy, and wonder. Being fully human is an exercise in humility, suffering, grace, and great humor. Things and people all around us die, get broken, or are lost. There is no safety or guarantees.-SARK, Make Your Creative Dreams Real

2010-01-08T06:55:00.000-08:00

it's cold where you're going
i hope that your hearts always warm
-Dashboard Confessional, So Long Sweet Summer

2010-01-07T11:12:00.000-08:00

It seems like time itself moves more slowly when you're in the presence of people who actually see and hear you. There's a certain weight to a moment that never comes when you feel invisible. -Merrill Markoe, Walking In Circles Before Lying Down

2010-01-07T11:06:00.000-08:00

There are many things that I would
Like to say to you
I don't know how
Because maybe
You're gonna be the one who saves me
-Oasis, Wonderwall

2010-01-06T10:30:00.000-08:00

We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence. -Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers

2010-01-05T13:20:00.001-08:00

Any place you love is the world to you, but love is not fashionable anymore, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about it that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent.
-Oscar Wilde

2010-01-05T11:14:00.000-08:00

I miss him. All the time, I miss him. It's not waves; it's constant. All the time.
- Grey's Anatomy

2010-01-04T15:27:00.000-08:00

I dont know what I want, So don't ask me,
Cause I'm still trying to figure it out.
Don't know what's down this road, I'm just walking.
Trying to see through the rain coming down.
-Taylor Swift, A Place in this World

2010-01-04T07:43:00.000-08:00

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. -Edith Sitwell

2010-01-04T06:59:00.000-08:00

Two birds of a feather
Say that they're always gonna stay together
But one's never going to let go of that wire
He says that he will but he's just a liar
-Regina Specktor, Two Birds

2010-01-03T12:09:00.000-08:00

A new dress doesn’t get you anywhere; it’s the life you’re living in the dress, and the sort of life you had lived before, and what you will do in it later.-Diana Vreeland

2010-01-02T14:40:00.000-08:00

Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.
- Ani DiFranco

2010-01-02T12:32:00.000-08:00

There's no such thing as steady ground, that's why the buddy system exists. It's important to find people you can trust, someone you know will pull you out of whatever hole you fall into. You can throw a line out to anyone but it's up to them to catch it and hold on. In the end you have to let yourself be tied to someone else, it's the only way we'll make it. –Men in Trees

2009-12-31T09:36:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-31T08:30:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-31T07:13:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-30T13:47:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-30T11:11:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-30T11:09:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-29T10:46:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-29T06:56:00.000-08:00

You save yourself or you remain unsaved.
— Alice Sebold

2009-12-28T06:50:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-27T19:07:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-25T21:50:00.001-08:00

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

2009-12-24T13:37:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-23T12:01:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-22T08:06:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-21T21:37:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-21T07:18:00.001-08:00

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

2009-12-20T19:41:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-20T11:28:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-18T08:57:00.000-08:00

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

-James Thurber

2009-12-18T08:29:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-17T09:07:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-17T06:50:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-16T13:23:00.001-08:00

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

2009-12-16T10:15:00.001-08:00

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

2009-12-15T06:51:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-15T06:50:00.001-08:00

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

2009-12-14T13:09:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-14T11:57:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-10T15:19:00.001-08:00

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

2009-12-10T12:40:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-08T16:40:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-08T08:44:00.001-08:00

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

2009-12-07T08:41:00.001-08:00

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

2009-12-06T17:58:00.001-08:00

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

half of my heart takes time.

- john mayer, half of my heart

2009-12-06T04:57:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-05T16:54:00.001-08:00

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

- Scrubs

2009-12-04T07:04:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-04T05:48:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-03T08:54:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-02T14:42:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-02T08:51:00.000-08:00

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

2009-12-01T14:55:00.001-08:00

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

2009-12-01T06:45:00.000-08:00

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

2009-11-30T12:37:00.000-08:00

I suppose I think about love more than anyone really should. I am constantly amazed by its sheer power to alter and define our lives.
-The Holiday

2009-11-30T12:34:00.001-08:00

In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with.
-Juno

2009-11-30T12:14:00.001-08:00

I heard what you said. I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved. -Shana Abe

2009-11-29T14:08:00.001-08:00

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. -Maya Angelou

2009-11-28T09:36:00.001-08:00

If a dude isn't calling you when he says he will, or making sure you know that he's dating you, then you already have your answer. Stop making excuses for him; his actions are screaming the truth: he's just not that into you.

- Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo , He's just not that into you

2009-11-27T07:26:00.000-08:00

Afraid and shy, I let my chance go by; the chance that you might love me, too. You give your hand to me, and then you say goodbye.
- Jann Arden

2009-11-26T19:35:00.001-08:00

I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was hurricane. John Green, Looking for Alaska

2009-11-26T19:16:00.000-08:00

There's nothing like deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons. -Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

2009-11-26T08:36:00.000-08:00

In some ways we grow up. We have families, we get married, divorced, but for the most part, we still have the same problems that we did when we were fifteen. No matter how much we grow taller, grow older, we are still forever stumbling, forever wondering, forever young.
-Grey's Anatomy

2009-11-25T14:13:00.000-08:00

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares. -Henri J. M. Nouwen, The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey

2009-11-24T19:02:00.001-08:00

Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love. -Rainer Maria Rilke

2009-11-24T11:26:00.000-08:00

Sure, she’s pretty, but it’s about more than that. You two connect. Anything you throw at her, she can throw right back. You figured out what’s going on in that predictable head of hers in under five minutes, but something tells you her heart would take about five years.
- What She Doesn’t Know Will Kill You

2009-11-23T07:24:00.001-08:00

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not. -James Gordon

2009-11-23T07:12:00.000-08:00

What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey. That's a pretty good idea. I'll give you the moon, Mary.
- It's a Wonderful Life

2009-11-22T20:10:00.000-08:00

I love you. And not in a friendly way, although I think we're great friends. And not in a misplaced affection, puppy-dog way, although I'm sure that's what you'll call it. And it's not because you're unattainable. I love you. Very simple, very truly. You're the epitome of every attribute and quality I've ever looked for in another person. . . . But I had to say it. I can't take this anymore. I can't stand next to you without wanting to hold you. I can't look into your eyes without feeling that longing you only read about in trashy romance novels. I can't talk to you without wanting to express my love for everything you are. And if we never speak again, please know that I am forever changed because of who you are and what you've meant to me. -Chasing Amy

2009-11-21T09:41:00.001-08:00

I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. -Frederick E. Perl

2009-11-21T09:39:00.001-08:00

And what happens if the person you're supposed to be with never appears, or she does, and you're too distracted to notice? -Ever After

2009-11-20T12:08:00.000-08:00

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. -The Wonder Years

2009-11-20T09:28:00.000-08:00

for those of us who try to keep remembering,
try to do our better than our best.
think of all the children in the drifts of snow.
winners never quit, but winters never rest.
- she & him

2009-11-19T10:36:00.000-08:00

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

2009-11-18T13:01:00.001-08:00

What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?
-Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

2009-11-18T09:38:00.000-08:00

Alone people don't like to hear about the together people...It's just sort of mean. It's sort of like bringing a 6-pack to an AA meeting.
- Grey's Anatomy

2009-11-17T07:14:00.000-08:00

So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love--the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all about. Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for. It was not the world that was the great and saving lie, but her willingness to make it beautiful and fair, to live a once-removed life, in a world once-removed from the one in which everyone else seemed to exit.
- Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated

2009-11-16T12:01:00.000-08:00

If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly.
-Guy Finley