If I push too hard it's because I want things to be better, I want us to be better, I want you to be better. Sure I make waves, I mean you have to. And I'll keep making them till your everything you should be and will be. You'll never find anyone as good for you as I am, to believe in you as much as I do or to love you as much.

-The Way We Were

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

-Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

- Rajneesh

here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)

-e.e. cummings, i carry your heart with me

i know there is strength in the differences between us and i know there is comfort where we overlap. -ani difranco, overlap

I want somebody who can hold my interest; hold it and never let it fall. someone who can flatten me with a kiss, that hits like a fist -- or a sentence, that stops me like a brick wall.

- ani difranco, 'asking too much'

What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.

-Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. -Desiderata by Max Ehrmann

Honey, someday when you're a little older you will be introduced to something that is extremely seductive, but fickle. A fair-weather friend who seems benign, but packs a wallop like a donkey kick, and that is the Long Island iced tea. The Long Island iced tea makes you do things that you normally wouldn't do, like lifting your skirt in public or calling someone you normally wouldn't call at really weird times. -Lorelai to Rory, Gilmore Girls 'Red Light on the Wedding Night'

maybe you were joking when you said

you'd take me for ten years and no more.

maybe you've had the best of me,

but you can take another ten years and be sure.

-jackson browne, stunning mystery companion

Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.-Baz Lurhmann, Everyone's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)

i don't want to wait until tomorrow to tell you how i'd feel the rest of my life. -mat kearney, city of black and white

perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing -sylvia plath

I've become a real believer in not defining every single thing. Seems like everytime you think you've figured out what something is, it just becomes something else. -Felicity

watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. those who don’t believe in the magic will never find it.
- roald dahl

what a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell...it's important in life to conclude things properly. only then can you let go. otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse. -yann martel, 'life of pi'

i'm here to move love to the top of your to-do list. -miss match

i like beginnings because they're so full of promise. the first page of a book, the first day of a job, the first time you buy yourself flowers, the first date with a new man, the first touch, the first kiss, the first kick of a good liquor, the first moment you hold your own baby. i like beginnings because i know there's always more to come. -shyma perera, bitter sweet symphony

Never forget that anticipation is an important part of life. Work's important, family's important, but without excitement, you have nothing. You're cheating yourself if you refuse to enjoy what's coming. -Nicholas Sparks, 'Three Weeks with My Brother'

Nothing is ever what it seems to be, because you can never see the back while you're looking at the front, or the top while you're looking at the bottom. One side, that's mostly what you get. - Jill A. Davis, Ask Again Later

i wish in the city of your heart
you would let me be the street
where you walk when you are most
yourself.
-robley wilson, i wish in the city of your heart

the worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. -james bryce

I spend 23 hours a day wondering whether we're wrong for each other. Wondering whether we've got the energy that we need to get through everything that we seem to get into, whether the baggage we both bring would sink a small ship. But, in the 24th hour, I realize I've been thinking about her for 23 hours, and I come back to there's something about her I can't stay away from. Something about her that makes me want to love her. -John Carter, ER

All of the things in my life that worked suddenly seemed broken. So I abandoned my former life. Truth be told? It was an emergency escape hatch that released me from a job that had kidnapped my personal life, and got me out of a relationship I was too afraid to engage in.

- Ask Again Later by Jill A. Davis

What you feel only matters to you. It's what you do to the people you say you love, that's what matters. It's the only thing that counts. -The Last Kiss

i like to feel his eyes on me when I look away.

-before sunrise

i got a lecture about behavior and how if we wanted boys to be gentlemen we should act like ladies, which was idiotic because we didn't want the boys to be gentlemen. we wanted them to think we were pretty and ask us to dance and hold our hands, and maybe kiss us in the corner and send us clever instant messages. - e. lockhart, 'the boyfriend list'

it's only when movement becomes the most natural state in our lives that we can finally begin to enjoy the motion. and it's only when standing still becomes impossible that we can finally embrace the kinds of changes that are inevitable in our lives. -john bingham, running for mortals

if there's any kind of magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone, sharing something. i know, it's almost impossible to succeed, but…who cares, really? the answer must be in the attempt.

-before sunrise

i don't care what consequence it brings

i have been a fool for lesser things.

what else could i do?

i'm so inspired by you.

-billy joel, the longest time

this is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing. -maya angelou

i long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever i find myself. -maya angelou

anything less than mad, passionate, extraordinary love is a waste of time. there are too many mediocre things in life to deal with and love shouldn't be one of them. -dreams of an insomniac

i sing sometimes like my life is at stake 'cause you're only as loud as the noises you make. -ani difranco, 'my i.q.'

the one person who really knows me best says i'm like a cat. yeah, the kind of cat that you just can't pick up and throw into your lap. no, the kind that doesn't mind being held, only when it's her idea. yeah, the kind that feels what she decides to feel, when she is good and ready to feel it. -ani difranco, 'virtue'

"I wonder what you look like, under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like, when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have, when we're not pretending."

- ani difranco, 'work your way out'

perhaps luck exists somewhere between the world of planning, the world of chance, and the peace that comes from knowing that you just can't know it all. -little black book

There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something, is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size.

-Adaptation

i guess when you're young you just believe there'll be many people with whom you'll connect with. later in life, you realize it only happens a few times. -before sunset