1201) "[Amy Ray and I] have always just been ourselves and presented ourselves the way we want to look and how we want to dress. We're just not glamorous women. It'd be a joke to try and be that. Half the time I don't even think about how I look, or what I'm wearing. It's all about the music to me."-Emily Saliers
1202) "Just remember all...that words are powerful, so very powerful, that it can change attitudes (for the better or for the worse), with or without provocation. They can be triggers, reminders, movers, and emotives....Be kind with your words and listen to positive messages in things that we have in common....Communication in the ways that make a positive impact and even possibly profitable (new friendships, good feelings, etc) for all parties, is THE key."-Seona
1203) "The hardest work most of us do is maintaining the appearance of normality."-Harry Shearer
1204) "I'm striving to read as much as I can and learn as much as I can and be aware and to be open to both sides of issues, to know where people are coming from and that's important...that's important because it makes you feel good."-Amy Ray
1205) "Never pride yourself on knowledge. Remember, even a head of iceburg lettuce knows more than you do. It knows whether or not that light really does go out when the refrigerator door shuts."-Michael Torguson
1206) "Have you ever been in love, Binkley? Have you ever felt the magic moment? Have you ever been kissed by someone and felt as if your two bodies had suddenly fused into one glorious emotional entity...igniting fireworks of unbridled sensuality? Have you, Binkley?"-Berke Breathed
1207) "I mean, even the most spiritual person loves to go shopping."-Amy Ray
1208) "happiness is more of an attitude you can have whatever you're doing, and figuring out what you love and being able to do what you love even some of the time makes it easier to have that attitude. but when you try to do what you think you love all the time you sometimes discover that you don't love it all that much, or you love it better in smaller doses you can savor."-Audrey Beth Stein
1209) "Run your fingers through my soul/ for once, just once/ feel exactly what I feel/ believe what I believe/ percieve as I percieve/ look, experience, examine/ and for once, just once/ understand"-Sara Ohotto
1210) "I worked a nine-to-five office job. The office manager approached me one day and yelled, 'Shirt and tie!' I had on a T-shirt. She curtly replied to me, 'Shirt and tie!' I was thinking to myself, 'Shirt and tie...shirt and tie?' Oh!! I yelled back, 'Things you wear at a wedding!...Things you wear to dinner!' I love playing $25,000 Pyramid!"-Danny McWilliams, A Funny Time To Be Gay
1211) "Actually, Catholic girls make the best lesbians. Their whole life they're told, 'Don't have sex with men--it's a sin!' They're like, 'Oh, OK, I can do that!'"-Judy Carter, A Funny Time To Be Gay
1212) "My therapist always says that you should be friends with someone before you sleep with them. But the truth of the matter is, once you get to know someone, who the hell wants to have sex with them?! Yeah, I'm in therapy. What I don't get about therapy is this: if you always pick the wrong person to be a relationship with, what makes you think you're going to pick any better when you pick your therapist?!"-Judy Carter, A Funny Time To Be Gay
1213) "I don't even consider myself bisexual. Frankly, I just think of myself as a 'people person.'"-Michael Dane, A Funny Time To Be Gay
1214) "The idea of outing historical figures is getting a little carried away, but it is kind of fun to imagine bibilical characters as gay. Picture Moses saying, 'Let my people go, girl!'"-Michael Dane, A Funny Time To Be Gay
1215) "There's been a lot of speculation about what causes homosexuality. So far, no one sems to know. Although in our family, I was the only one who would drink Strawberry Flavored Nestle's Quick."-Bob Smith, A Funny Time To Be Gay
1216) "English teachers are tough to date. When we first started dating, I lived in New York and she lived in Ohio, and I would write her all these letters. She'd send them back corrected!"-Suzanne Westenhoefer, A Funny Time To Be Gay
1217) "You know, I was thinking of organizing my own Smoker' Rights March on Washington. I'm serious. Get a bunch of us smokers down there, we'll march from the Capitol, down to the Monument...well, OK, we probably wouldn't get that far. But we'd chant: 'We're here, we're...cough, cough, cough!" Well, they'd know what we meant!"-Suzanne Westenhoefer, A Funny Time To Be Gay
1218) "Did you hear about that woman who got paid $3 million for spilling hot coffee on her crotch at McDonald's? Three million dollars!! I wish someone had given me that opportunity before I wasted all that time in college! If they had just laid it all out for me, 'Ok, you can spend four to five years at a local university, graduate, and earn maybe $30,000 a year, working every single day for the rest of your life. Or...scalding hot java in your cooch--three million!' I'd be like, 'Could that be decaf? I get irritable.'"-Robin Greenspan, A Funny Time To Be Gay
1219) "I'm in therapy now. I used to be in denial, which was, well, a lot cheaper....So now I'm seeing a new therapist. The very first day I go to see him, he sits me down and says, 'Now, before we get started, I want you to know that I work on a fifty-minute hour.' At first I thought, 'What? I'm coming to him for help?!' But then I figured it out. They need that extra ten minutes to get on the phone and just dish you to all their friends: 'Oh my God, she's crazy! She's insane! Oh, I gotta go. I got another freak daddy at the door.' Fifty minute hour! But I didn't say anything. At the end of the session, I just handed him a check. And he says, 'Excuse me, but this is only for half.' And I say, 'Oh, I'm sorry, I should have told you earlier. I pay with a fifty-cent dollar...so it all works out evenly!'"-Robin Greenspan, A Funny Time To Be Gay
1220) "I'm angry at the Catholic church, because it says that women can't be priests. Right. Like my big dream is to run around in a long black dress and fuck altar boys. But I think I should have the choice. The pope agrees that women cannot be priests, and this is his reason: because there were no women priests when Jesus lived. And that's true. But there was also no pope. Does that stop him?"-E. L. Greggory, A Funny Time To Be Gay
1221) "Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year's gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, each flicker of the candles on the cake we know it's not to be. That for the rest of our sad, wretched, pathetic lives, this is who we are to the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably. Happy birthday? No such thing."-Jerry Seinfeld
1222) "'See ya, kid.' And just like that he was gone--just got into his car and left. I sat on our front steps for a long time, knowing that I should have been prepared, thinking that I had known for so long that he was going to leave, knowing I shouldn't cry. I turned and went inside, thousands of thoughts banging inside my head like bees trapped between two window panes. I needed to hear from him that things would be okay. I needed to know that high school would be fine even though he wasn't around to protect me anymore. I wanted to tell him I was sorry--sorry for the time I borrowed something he needed, picked up the phone while he was on it, made fun of him, or got him in trouble. I needed for him to say we could stil be close with 200 miles between us, that if Mom and Dad had a fight he'd be there. I wanted to know that upperclassmen weren't that brutal to freshmen, how to work the answering machine, how to play Indigo Girls on the guitar. I needed to cry. I needed one more minute with him. There were some things I had forgotten."-Cristin Stickles, "Forgotten"
1223) "In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair."-Audre Lorde
1224) "Without illusions we die. Without illusions there's no energy, no enthusiasm for life."-Erica Jong
1225) "To be nobody--but myself--in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else--means to fight the hardest battle which any human can fight, and never stop fighting."-e.e. cummings
1226) "The shared memories brought smiles, laughter, a few tears, and at last, a sense of contentment. For slowly, from our own treasured memories, a kindred bond begins to emerge. That's how it is with people sometimes. When you least expect it, a common thread--golden at that--begins to weave together the fabric of friendship."-Mary Kay Shanley
1227) "Finally, the lessons of impermanence taught me this: loss constitutes an odd kind of fullness; despair empties out into an unquenchable appetite for life."-Gretel Ehrlich
1228) "You can talk a great philosophy, but if you can't be kind to people everyday then it doesn't mean that much to me."-Ani DiFranco (again)
1229) "...I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as a meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self. But this is a destructive and fragmenting way to live."-Audre Lorde
1230) "[I got sober because I thought] I was actually going to lose my voice. That was the one thing I couldn't bear. I didn't mind losing everything else--my looks, my life, my child...my money, my lover--I didn't mind that. But I was not prepared to lose my voice."-Marianne Faithfull
1231) "I hate it when my real life gets in the way of my internet life..."-Sue Gibson
1232) "I used to think that all music was banal and uninteresting. Then I discovered folk music!"-Sally Green
1233) "Silence is not protection enough."-A. A. Milne
1234) "The stature of the theoretician must not be measured by their fulfillment of his aims, but by their soundness and the influence they have had on the development of humanity."-Adolf Hitler
1235) "I build my peace through strength. That's the best weapon you've got."-Dar Williams, "The Great Unknown"
1236) "There is no future/ There is no past/ I live this moment/ As my last/ There's only us/ There's only this/ Forget regret/ Or life is yours to miss/ No other road/ No other way/ No day but today...There's only now/ There's only here/ Give in to love/ Or live in fear/ No other path/ No other way/ No day but today."-Jonathon Larson, Rent
1237) "Life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand. We find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness."-Florida Scott-Maxwell
1238) "It is difficult enough for adults to try to protect a child from all sorts of dangerous and paltry things, not to mention the rude realities of racism."-Gayle Pemberton
1239) "there's a crowd of people harbored in every person/ there are so many roles that we play/ you've decided to love me for eternity/ i'm still deciding who i want to be today"-Ani DiFranco
1240) "color me grey/ i'm a little bit of everything today/ and i'm not sure just where i'm going/ color me grey/ wishing i was something more of distinction"-Amy Ray, "Color Me Grey"
1241) "So come on baby let me show you how/ The less you know the more I comprehend/ You don't have to drag me down/ I descend"-Shawn Colvin
1242) "So afraid to love. More afraid to lose./ Clinging to a path that doesn't let me choose./ It's funny how we feel so much but cannot say a word./ We are screaming inside, but we can't be heard."-Sarah McLachlan
1243) "Were as much time and energy invested in providing supportive social environments for all people, regardless of their sexual identity, as in telling homophobic jokes, bashing gays, and engaging in hate crimes, we would build a more caring society that embraced and sustained a diversity of loving relationships."-Margaret L. Anderson
1244) "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."-George Bernard Shaw
1245) "How we love to love things for other people; how we love to have other people love things through our eyes."-John Irving
1246) "Adolescence--is it the first time in life we discover that we have something terrible to hide from those who love us?"-John Irving
1247) "The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart."-Maya Angelou
1248) "Courage--fear that has said its prayers."-Dorothy Bernard
1249) "Feel the ryhthm of the earth and dance the song of life."
1250) "And Alice picked up the little cake and on it read, 'Be yourself.' 'How funny,' Alice thought, 'what else could I be!'"-Lewis Carroll
1251) "I hold you too long against me,/ then I stop counting the minutes as they slip/ by and I still have you/ ear pressed against mine, veins throbbing eternity against my burning skin./ You find the soft part of my cheek--the valley of bones you've been/ staring at all evening--and you press it against yours./ Tight. Tighter./ We're hugging good-night, we tell ourselves./ We're Friends./ You press my cheek against yours, clasp my head and press it further./ I can bring you inside me if I squeeze hard enough, you think./ I can melt you into me and hold you there forever./ Because I want to kiss you./ But I cannot kiss you./ So we hug too hard."-Shirley Zilberstein, "we hug too hard"
1252) "Every man must decide whether he will walk in the fight of creative altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. This is the judgment. Life's more persistent and urgent question is what are you doing for others?"-Martin Luther King, Jr.
1253) "Especially people who care about strangers, who care about evil, and social injustice. Do you only care about the bleeding crowd, how about a needing friend."-Hair
1254) "I've been wondering again..../ and I know there is so much that you have to say/ about what happens when my brain & my heart get in synch/ but it doesn't seem to be happenning/ and i wonder what you'd have to say/ if she wasn't around/ and I wonder/ if maybe then/ you'd catch/ the little whispers/ that I'm sending/ and it's odd/ I hang out with so many christians/ and they all adored you/ before they knew you were pagan/ it's a metaphor/ if you want to/ take it that way/ it's the only thing/ I know how/ to work with/ I can't deal/ with this shit in my own life/ I have to/ retreat/ to this little land/ of paper landscapes/ that bleed black blood/ from penswords/ where I can stand/ on my own ground./ When did poetic/ become cool?/ When did it/ become/ something you could fake?/ Doesn't that/ defeat/ the entire point?/ If everything/ doesn't have you/ running for a notepad/ then you/ really/ need to take a step back/ and consider/ if who you're presenting/ can actually fit/ into the little puzzle/ you've created./ and if I wanted/ to leave a message/ maybe i would/ and maybe she still cares/ and maybe/ you'll get me/ one day/ you'll see/ that/ if I was acting/ I could do/ a hell of a lot better/ get rid of/ the pieces that break/ and replace them/ with shiny new things/ that are/ more appealing/ and have cool catch phrases on them/ and maybe then you'd acknowledge me./ maybe/ then."-Russ, "Shoes & ships & ceiling wax-v2"
1255) "deep down, beneath all our insecurities, beneath all our hopes for and beliefs in equality, each of us believes we're better than anyone else. because it's our beliefs that are right, our doubts that are the allowable ones, our fears which are legitimate."-Audrey Beth Stein
1256) "There are...people we wonder about but don't make...attempts to contact. Perhaps we're afraid of empty conversation with someone we're not sure if we ever connected to in the first place, or perhaps we're curious about someone whose life we watched for a while from afar. Sometimes it's just been too long, and sometimes we can't even articulate the need to know whatever happened to so-and-so. Where are they? Did they make it? Are they happy? Are they passionate about something in their lives? Are they anything like the people we once knew?"-Audrey Beth Stein
1257) "what i have seen in dar that is so appealing is the underlying perspective that even if we *are* different....very different....in areas of age, gender, orientation, background, life experiences, religion, viewpoint....we can choose to be accepting of others, and their very different viewpoints and lifestyles--what constitutes 'freedom of choice' or we can spend huge amounts of time and effort being indignant that they are somehow inferior because their lifestyle or religion or whatever is so different that we may not be able to relate to it--however--it is *their* life.....and within the confines of so-called civiled society there is some basic laws of humanity that define civil liberties (such as not stealing, murdering, etc) and then there is a *whole* lot of "gray area" that is continually being debated and refined as to what the current societal definition of "acceptable" is."-Lisa Wehlmann
1258) "I don't have a type. It took me this long to narrow it down to a gender."-Ellen Degeneres
1259) "We are the real countries, not the boundaries drawn on maps with the names of powerful men."-The English Patient
1260) "Through every storm and the darkness of night comes a patch of indigo."
1261) "When the heart dares to speak, it needs no preparation."-Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
1262) "Feminism is the radical notion that women are people."
1263) "It is as hard for our children to believe that we are not omnipotent as it is for us to know it, as parents. But that knowledge is as necessary as the first step in the reassessment of power as something other than might, age, privilege, or the lack of fear. It is an important step for a boy, whose societal destruction begins when he is forced to believe that he can only be stong if he doesn't feel, or if he wins....The strongest lesson I can teach my son is the same lesson I teach my daughter: how to be who he wishes to be for himself. And the best way I can do this is to be who I am and hope that he will learn from this not how to be me, which is not possible, but how to be himself. And this means how to move to that voice from within himself, rather than to those raucous, persuasive, or threatening voices from outside, pressuring him to be what the world wants him to be. And that is hard enough."-Audre Lorde
1264) "Staring at the ceiling,/ trying not to feel so lonely./ Wanting the time back, as the time passes so slowly./ There's a fine line between love and hate./ I cannot tell which is which./ Confusion reigns supreme./ You know love is still a bitch./ I'm tired of holding the dice, waiting on that lucky roll./ Can't someone tell me how it works?/ You know that's all I want to know./ As the neon flashes through my window, outside my room,/ flashing between the pink and the pale white of the moon,/ I'm counting the minutes, fearing and fighting another day's sun./ Just trying to learn some lessons here at the Hotel at Highway One./ Somewhere along the line, I lost sight of what living's about./ Been so afraid of losing, I filled myself with doubt./ Working in too many rodeos, where the rules were not my call./ Finding out much too late, there weren't any rules at all./ Now, I'm trying to steal me some time, while cheating circumstance./ And tomorrow's almost here, so I've got to take the chance./ I've been running every light I saw on Easy Street./ What a shock to realize I wasn't in the driver's seat./ Still counting the minutes, fearing and fighting another day's sun./ Still trying to learn some lessons here at the Hotel at Highway One./ Finally my answers come, it's time to get over all those sins./ Here at the Hotel at Highway One,/ I've learned to live again./ Sometimes we spend too much time, regretting and denying./ You don't appreciate laughter, until you know about the crying./ Now, I welcome the new light, as I welcome today's sun,/ and I'm laughing at myself, here at the Hotel at Highway One."-Caroline Aiken and R. Hayes, "Hotel At Highway One"
1265) "The mainstream is so polluted with lies, once you are wet it's so hard to get dry."-Ani DiFranco
1266) "Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round,/ or listened to rain slapping the ground?/ Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight,/ or gazed at the sun into the fading night?/ You better slow down,/ don't dance so fast,/ time is short, the music won't last./ Do you run through each day on the fly,/ when you ask "How are you",/ do you hear the reply?/ When the day is done,/ do you lie in your bed,/ with the next hundred chores running through your head?/ You better slow down,/ don't dance so fast,/ time is short, the music won't last./ Ever told your child,/ we'll do it tomorrow,/ and in your haste, not seen his sorrow?/ Ever lost touch,/ let a good friendship die,/ 'cause you never had time to call and say "hi"./ You better slow down,/ don't dance so fast,/ time is short, the music won't last./ When you run so fast to get somewhere,/ you miss half the fun of getting there./ When you worry and hurry through your day,/ it is like and unopened gift thrown away./ Life is not a race,/ so take it slower,/ hear the music before the song is over./ take time to smell the flowers along lifes way,/ Smile at someone today for tomorrow they may be/ Your friend from today..."-forward, "Slow Dance"
1267) "Relationships are not built on abstractions but on human interactions: they have to have a human face."-Suzanne Pharr
1268) "The thing I love most about homepages is that, in a matter of seconds, from thousands and thousands of miles away, someone can determine that someone else is a complete freak."-Mirsky
1269) "I still/ don't understand/ the point of taking drugs/ to enhance your senses and/ broaden your horizons./ Wouldn't/ it make a lot more sense/ to just take a poetry class?"-Ariel Vitello
1270) "It seems like you agree to have a certain personality to make things easier for everyone. But when you think about it, how do you know it's even you?"-Angela on My So-Called Life
1271) "What happens to a dream deferred?/ Does it dry up/ like a raison in the sun?/ Or fester like a sore/ And then run?/ Does it stink like rotten meat?/ Or crust and sugar over/ like a syrupy sweet?/ Maybe it just sags/ like a heavy load./ Or does it explode?"-Langston Hughes, "Harlem"
1272) "Had any adult with the power to fulfill my desires taken me seriously and asked me what I wanted, they would have known that I did not want to have anything to own, or to possess any object. I wanted rather to feel something..."-Toni Morrison
1273) "Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do."-Toni Morrison
1274) "...I think maybe some things are easier to say with people around who aren't listening than they are with no one else around."-Audrey Beth Stein
1275) "I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have the power of thus affecting us, still the reason, and the analysis, of this power, lie among considerations beyond our depth."-Edgar Allen Poe
1276) "Closed for my protection,/ open to your scorn/ Between these two directions,/ My heart is sometimes torn"-Rush
1277) "Truth is after all a moving target-/ Hairs to split a peices that don't fit/ How can anybody be enlightened?-/ Truth is after all, so poorly lit"-Rush
1278) "high heels move closer/ and i anticipate the next/ barrage of you should do this/ and why are you like that./ i crouch in the corner/ of a cheap motel room atmosphere/ listening to interrogations/ omnipotent returns/ of investments./ my love was not a demon/ rather a tornado on the water/ movng closer to your bay window/ photo images claim headlines/ stilled moments where her breath/ is an instantfrom the tiny crook/ located next to his ear./ nearby radios blast songs i used to sing/ and i find dancing apropos/ for the way we used to touch./ i cling to the sensations brought about/ from bare feet padding/ concrete sidewalk chalk impressions./ the pink chalk smudges my toes/ so they turn orange/ the glare of the sun/ making prisms/ with the streetlamps./ i could make insanity/ a normal film projection/ on an eening such as this/ where the simplest of infatuations/ blossoms to love proportions/ as autumn breezes/ close in."
1279) "I like my own poems/ best./ I quote from them/from time to time/ saying 'A poet once said,'/ and then follow up/ with a line or two/ from one of my *own* poems/ appropriate to the event./ How those lines sing!/ All that wisdom and beauty!/ Why it tickles me ass/ off its spine./ 'Why those lines are mine!'/ I say/ and Jesus, what a bang/ I get out of it./ I like the *ideas* in them,/ my poems;/ Ideas that hit home./ They *speak* to me./ I mean, I understand/ what the hell/ the damn poet's/ talking about./ 'Why I've been there,/ the same thing,' I shout,/ and Christ! What a shot it is,/ a shot./ And hey./ The words!/ Whew!/ I can hardly stand it./ Words sure do not fail/ this guy, I say./ From some world/ only he knows/ he bangs the bong,/ but I can feel it/ in the wood,/ in the wood of the word,/ rising to its form/ in the world./ 'Now, you gotta be good/ to do that!' I say/ and damn! It just shakes/ my heart,/ you know!" -Jack Grapes, "I Like My Own Poems"
1280) "If you're not angry, then you're just stupid and you don't care; how else can you react when you know something's so unfair, when the men of the hour can kill half the world in war, make them slaves to a superpower and then let them die poor."-Ani DiFranco
1281) "It's not important to be defined. It's only important to use your time well."-Ani DiFranco
1282) "Arrange whatever pieces come your way."-Virginia Woolf
1283) "People talk about my image/ like I come in two dimensions/ Like lipstick is a sign of my declining mind/ Like what I happen to be wearing the day/ that someone takes my picture/ is my new statement for all womankind"-Ani DiFranco, "Little Plastic Castle"
1284) "I speak without reservation, from what I know and who I am. I do so with the understanding that all people should have the right to offer their voices to the chorus whether the result is harmony or dissonance. The worldsong is a colorless dirge without the differences that distinguish us, and it is that difference which should be celebrated not condemned."-Ani DiFranco
1285) "I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. Still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend."-Red in The Shawshank Redemption
1286 "I was at Bible camp, learning how to be more judgmental."-Mrs. Flanders on The Simpsons
1287) "Allow me someday to touch you/ The way that you've all touched me./ I thank you for your expressions;/ Your music has set me free..."-Happy Rhodes
1288) "On a journey ill/ Over fields all withered/ Dreams go wandering still"-Basho
1289) "tomorrow morning sits like a lazy housewife on the scene of the tragedy."-Heather Hughes
1290) "But we have made another kind of peace,/ and walk where boughs are green,/ Forgiven by the selves that we have been,/ And learning to forgive./ Our apples taste sweeter this year;/ our gates are falling down,/And need not be replaced"-Adrienne Rich
1291) "Experience is not what happens to you but what you make of what happens to you."-Aldous Huxley
1292) "People CANNOT be labeled. Everyone borrows different pieces of various idealogies which is what makes us so unique."-Lisa Johnson
1293) "Self-expression heals the wounded heart"-How to Make an American Quilt
1294) "If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? Well, maybe, if they screamed all the time for no good reason."-Jack Handey
1295) "I found out why cats drink out of the toilet. My mother told me it's because it's cold in there. And I'm like: How did my mother know THAT?"-Wendy Liebman
1296) "And where we love is home,/ Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts,/ The chain may lengthen, but it never parts./ Integrity needs no rules."-Albert Camus
1297) "And the sea will always be there for your soul to meet the tide."-Ann Reed
1298) "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult."-Seneca
1299) "You are making stuff very difficult. Dare a little. A feeling of anger and bitterness because nothing makes sense. A loss of hope. I know the feeling well. See, we're not as different as you'd like to believe. Stop believing what you'd *like* to believe. Open your eyes and see what is actually transpiring: You have someone who is fully willing to drop, right into your lap, their undying affection and commitment. They think you're wonderful, they're fascinated by you. They think you're magical. They're pulling for you to realize what they see so obviously. And, heck, they're even cute. And they have damn good taste in music. They'd be your Shakespeare, your Amy Ray, your Jack Kerouac, your Fabio, your postino, your Alpha and your Omega, your beginning and your end. They'd be your band-aid and your ice pack, your ace bandage and your crutches. Your bed, your rug, your shelf, your closet. They'll let you hide yourself in them, they will give the secrets you request. They'll be your shield, your knight in shining armor, your bodyguard, your nurse, your donor, your sacrificial lamb, your everything. They'd do anything for you, anything except allow you to give up on them. They are willing to fight, like ms. difranco says, for what they believe in. And they believe in you. They'd risk getting kicked out of a concert to bring you closer to the excitement. They'd give up their first-row ticket, they'd give up their everything, to have you. They'd drive hours on end just to see your untouchable face, and then drive hours back sobbing because they're leaving it. They'd go to the ends of the earth to win your favor, they'd tear out their own heart if you were in need of a softer one. They'd flood you with poems to try to crack the lock on your emotions, they're miserable without you. They're so very sorry for the words which flew out of their shocked lips. They've already forgiven you, before you've even asked, for anything you said and didn't mean. They're crying all the time, and missing classes, and forgetting papers, and playing 'Blood and Fire' over and over again. And they want to stop. They don't care what the rest of the world, or their family, or anyone thinks of them, as long as you're on their side. They want you, they need you, they really really like you. They're silly, certain they could concoct some way to get you to like them too. They can't get your voice out of their head, and your face haunts them every time they shut their eyes. They keep having dreams that frighten them, like a broken guillotine, lingering just above their head. They're breaking fast, they're nearing the end of their rope, they need you to hold the part of them that only you can carry. And they will not let you do this to them, they will not let you do this to yourself. They believe you could gain so much from them that to allow you to walk away would be a crime. They will not give up. They adore you."-forward
1300) "I know I may be wishing/ on a world/ that may never be/ but I'll keep on wishing/ no matter how hopeless/ or foolish/ it may seem/ I'll keep on wishing/ I'll toss my coins in the fountain/ look for clovers in grassy lawns/ search for shooting stars in the night/ cross my fingers and dream on/ I know I may be dreaming/ of a world/ far from present day reality/ but I'll keep dreaming/ No matter how unrealistic/ or naive/ it may seem/ always keep dreaming/ And toss your coins in the fountain/ look for clovers in grassy lawns/ search for shooting stars in the night/ cross your fingers and dream on/ we must always be thinking/ of the world/ as a place of infinite possibilities/ and always keep thinking/ No matter how hopeless/ or foolish/ it may seem/ always keep thinking/ And toss our coins in the fountain/ look for clovers in grassy lawns/ search for shooting stars in the night/ cross our fingers and dream on"-Tracy Chapman