1401) "The waitress was white, and the counter was white, and the ice cream I never ate in Washington D.C. that summer I left childhood was white, and the white heat and the white pavement and the white stone monuments of my first Washington summer made me sick to my stomach for the whole rest of that trip and it wasn't much of a graduation present after all."-Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
1402) "Maybe that is all any bravery is, a stronger fear of not being brave."-Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
1403) "...my experience with people who tried to label me was that they usually did it to either dismiss me or use me."-Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
1404) "I soon discovered that if you keep your mouth shut, people are apt to believe you know everything, and they begin to feel freer and freer to tell you anything, anxious to show that they know something, too."-Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
1405) "You loved people and you came to depend on their being there. But people died or changed or went away and it hurt too much. The only way to avoid that pain was not to love anyone, and not to let anyone get too close or too important. The secret to not being hurt like this again, I decided, was never depending on anyone, never needing, never loving. It is the last dream of children, to be forever untouched."-Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
1406) "Just because you're strong, doesn't mean you can let other people depend on you too much. It's not fair to them, because when you can't be what they want they're disappointed, and you feel bad."-Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
1407) "We all cared for and about each other, sometimes with more or less understanding, regardless of who was entangled with whom at any given time, and there was always a place to sleep and something to eat and a listening ear for anyone who wandered into the crew. And there was always someone calling you on the telephone, to interrupt the fantasies of suicide. That was as good a working definition of friend as most."-Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
1408) "In general, my family only allowed themselved to know whatever it was they cared to know, and I did not push them as long as they left me alone."-Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
1409) "It was a while before we came to realize that our place was the very house of difference rather than the security of any one particular difference. (And often, we were cowards in our learning.) It was years before we learned to use the strength that daily surviving can bring, years before we learned fear does not have to incapacitate, and that we could appreciate each other on terms not necessarily our own."-Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
1410) "'How long you been in the life ?' I stared at Kitty without answering, trying to think of how to explain to her, that for me there was only one life--my own--however I chose to live it."-Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
1411) "We had come together like elements erupting into an electric storm, exchanging energy, sharing change, brief and drenching. Then we parted, passed, reformed, reshaping ourselves the better for the exchange."-Audre Lorde, Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
1412) "Television is like a flyer somebody sticks on your windshield. Who gives a damn what's on it? It's iridescent wallpaper. Sometimes I think people just like the light on their faces."-Jerry Seinfeld
1413) "I've never had much interest in being liked. And I think people like that. It's a relief. So many people want to be liked."-Jerry Seinfeld
1414) "I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes--it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'Well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all. So you say to people who think you may have injured, 'I'm sorry,' and then you say to yourself, 'I'm sorry.' If we all hold onto the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you, when a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thick or too sexual or too asexual, that's rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach."-Maya Angelou
1415) "I think you have to have patience and understanding for everybody. I think when we experience prejudice, we have to stop and think about where it's coming from, why people do it and move on. We have to understand it. You have to understand who taught them to be prejudiced, where they learned it from....We're all human. Every single human being has a story that he or she has lived, and in order to get past it all, you have to understand, you have to know his story. That's the only way I see that we can get by and keep going."-Jessi Old Coyote
1416) "It's almost like I have to search out my environment before I choose which mask to put on. Like chameleons, women must adapt to their surroundings, but now I realize that my surrounding is the body I inhabit. This is my sanctuary."-Tasha Flournoy
1417) "I believe in butterflies and quiet songs, in early sunrises and the stars at night. I believe in the moon during the day. I believe in long hair and decorating my skin. I believe in love. I believe that black and white are truly complex blends of a million colors. I believe in the ocean. Love is not just a term from the sixties; it's a power we give and receive every day. I feel that I love everything on this Earth and beyond. Love is a power that brings positive energy to the balance of good and evil in every person and element."-Bobbi Hervin
1418) "...I think--the loneliest thing is to be alone with someone. I'd rather be by myself than be with someone who has no idea who I am."-Nicole Burdette
1419) "All love is a loss of control. It's a fearless place where beauty rests. It's both calm and chaotic. It's nothing to write a poem about."-Nicole Burdette
1420) "I could lay here and read all night. I am not able to fall asleep without reading. You have that time when your brain has nothing constructive to do so it rambles. I fool my brain out of that by making it read until it shuts off. I just think it is best to do something right up until you fall asleep."-Kaye Gibbons, Ellen Foster
1421) "You see if you tell yourself the same tale over and over again enough times then the tellings become separate stories and you will generally fool yourself into forgetting you only started with one solitary season out of your life. That is how I do it."-Kaye Gibbons, Ellen Foster
1422) "I still wonder sometimes if I am fine myself or if I have tricked myself into believing I am who I think I am. So many folks thinking and wanting you to be somebody else will confuse you if you are not very careful. It gives me nerves to worry about me."-Kaye Gibbons, Ellen Foster
1423) "I know for a fact I would not ever forget her but you can never be sure about how somebody else thinks about you except if they beat it into your head. At least that is how I am worried about Starletta who has never said much good or bad to me but before long I will have to know I am in her head like she is in mine. It is good to have a friend like her."-Kaye Gibbons, Ellen Foster
1424) "I might be confused sometimes in my head but it is not something you need to talk about. Before you can talk you have to line it all up in order and I had rather just let it swirl around until I am too tired to think. You just let the motion in your head wear you out. Never think about it. You just make a bigger mess that way."-Kaye Gibbons, Ellen Foster
1425) "Life is a struggle but there's hope and beauty in the world. Even though a lot of our songs are dark, there's often-times the strain of 'But we're so powerful as individuals and we're loved and we're good and the things we struggle with are the things that teach us the most and help us to grow.' In the end, that's what matters."-Emily Saliers
1426) "The two strangers met./ For a moment they were friends./ Strangers in the end."-Michael Neiman
1427) "whenever i see you/ i think i need you/ ...maybe i just need to talk.../ but whenever we hang out.../ yes!/ that's it!/ i've got things to say/ if you could/ only hear me/ if my voice/ wasn't obscured from your/ view./ when i see you,/ i want to throw my words at/ you,/ pin you down/ and throw my books in your/ eyes/ because i always think/ maybe then you'll see/ the real me./ i have things to tell you,/ things like/ how i wish i wasn't such a/ coward."-Kayte Siegle, "whenever i see you"
1428) "around me/ feeling you around my body/ and a kiss not there/ you are loving me/ and i lean against the wall;/ am i leaning against you?/ i know just where you lie/ i can hear everything that you can't say/ would that i may see you,/ you are no more visible/ than the breeze across my bare legs/ a final comfort/ will i ever know/ the word for this phenomenon/ a sort of reverse necrophilia/ the only pure love/ is the love of that which is unattainable."-Kayte Siegle, "ghost"
1429) "He speaks of the future/ Of machines to take my place/ Of computers that talk back:/ 'Hey buddy--i before e'/ And cars that drive by thoughts alone./ Identification by iris prints/ Books on flakes of silicon/ And pills with/ 100 percent potassium./ 3-D television/ And replacable skin./ I won't be needed by 2005./ So college is useless/ And ambitions are lies./ I'm sorry to say this,/ To leave you alone,/ But, forgive me,/ I need a modernity leave."-Becky Schwartz
1430) "Praise of other people is tolerable only up to a certain point--the point where one still believes that one could do oneself some of the things that one is hearing about. Once you get beyond this point, you will find people becoming jealous and incredulous."-Pericles
1431) "at what point/ do you know it's over?/ when it's over,/ absolutely positive,/ and nary a doubt./ do you know for sure./ is it the eyes, ears or/ voice?/ leering looks, snide sneers,/ vicious vocals?/ at what point/ do you know for sure?/ when absence is craved,/ and presence abhorred./ when every sad song/ shouts 'black coffee'./ when every happy song,/ turns into 'impossible dream'./ at what point/ do you know for sure?/ when self is compromised,/ debased, left wondering/ 'why?' and 'again?'/ when being together is:/ distress, stress, a mess!/ the pressure mounts, the leaden/ words, the dead emotion,/ love lost and fatal relationship./ undulating in death's throes,/ guttural, vicious, perturbed./ where no end exists,/ except the end./ at what point/ do you know for sure?/ when you write poems like this,/ you are damn close."-Dave Gitomer, "AT WHAT POINT?"
1432) "Okay,/ so they say,/ 'A long time ago,/ Before you were born,/ Before the Earth was made,/ Before the War in Heaven,/ Before Satan fell and/ Before now,/ A long time ago/ In heaven,/ We all chose our families.'/ They say we chose our families./ 'Doug, you chose to be my son,/ Jimmie, you chose to be Doug's brother,/ Micki, we all chose you as our special sister.'/ They say we chose our families./ I wonder, though,/ Have they ever rethought?/ Were there second opinions?/ Was it an eenie-meenie-/ Miney moe?/ Cuz, I mean,/ really,/ Would they have chosen/ A fag as a brother?"-Doug, "BAD DECISIONS"
1433) "Of course we lucky first-class bastards get to pre-board, and right after we sit down, the stewardess serves us drinks, so we're sitting there, kicking back, sipping beverages, reading, getting comfortable, whilst all the passengers in coach--of course the plane is full and everyone has two huge carryons with them--file miserably and haltingly by us, giving us withering looks, and causing me to muse that a better idea for airline design would be to have the entrance between the first-class section and the coach section, just so the members of the two sections can go their separate directions and don't have to be unpleasantly reminded of the other's existence."-Scott "Scotch" Herman
1434) "she rises from a litter of salvaged newspaper clippings/ and tissue boxes/ the ink drying on her fingers till/ no amount of rubbing/ could remove the stain./ she numbs her emotions/ so as not to cry herself to sleep each night/ or wake up mornings/ realizing they'res nothing left/ to look forward to in/ monotous calalnder pages./ hours pass upon minutes/ she sees the demands in peoples eyes/ hearts asking for soomething in return./ she doesn't know if she can love again/ the last time that occured/ she was left stranded/ in the desert of loneliness/ missing the salvation/ he brought with a simple/ hello./ i'm not sure what still works/ it's easier to cut off/ than actually feel/ and perhaps i could slip/ back into the gentle river/ but for now/ i'm too scared/ to step off shore."-Rain Tori, "explanation"
1435) "Sometimes it seems like we're all living in some kind of prison, and the crime is how much we all hate ourselves. It's good to get really dressed up once in a while and admit the truth that when you really look closely, people are so strange and so complicated that they're actually beautiful. Possibly even me."-Angela in My So-Called Life
1436) "A successful person is one who lays a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her."-David Brinkley
1437) "I am a naked soul standing tall and proud on a cliff, my head uplifted, looking towards the vast dome of sky, exalting that which is good, that which is beautiful. I exalt myself and bask in the glory of the worship of the human spirit. The human spirit, the beauty, glory, and life of the world. I stand overlooking the ocean, stripped naked of hopes, fears, and inhibitions, revelling in the wonder of who I am, and what I am, glowing at the thought of that which exists inside of me. For that which exists inside of me is beauty, love, power, reason, understanding. It is the union of mind, body, and soul. It is that which makes the world. It is ability and thought. It is existence itself. It is the human spirit, and I worship it. It exists inside of me and I exalt it, for it is pure and clean. It is a white hot glow and I stand on the cliff bathed in the light of it, worshipping it and worshipping myself, for I am."-Spring Moore
1438) "...I also now feel that the World Wide Web is not a place for the postings of the rambling thoughts of my mind. For if you make your entire Self public, then what does that leave for you?"-Spring Moore
1439) "if you don't have enough confidence in your value as a woman to tolerate correct grammar than there is a much more fundamental problem than he as the generic third person."-Jennifer Mosier
1440) "God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, he just goes on trying other things."-Pablo Picasso (again)
1441) "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend: and inside a dog, it's too dark to read."-Groucho Marx
1442) "I'd like your respect but I'd rather keep mine."-Kaia Wilson
1443) "Making Barbie smart is like making G.I. Joe a conscientious objector."-Maureen Dowd
1444) "I've learned that silent company is often more healing than words of advice."
1445) "I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back."
1446) "It is strange how, just as soon as an article becomes successful, somebody starts to think that it would be more successful if only it were different. There is a tendency to keep monkeying with styles and to spoil a good thing by changing it."-Henry Ford
1447) "If a certain method has formerly been tried and failed, somebody will remember it--but I am not particularly anxious for the men to remember what someone else has tried to do in the past, for then we might quickly accumulate far too many things that could not be done. That is one of the troubles with extensive records. If you keep on recording all of your failures you will shortly have a list showing that there is nothing left for you to try--whereas it by no means follows because one man has failed in a certain method that another man will not succeed."-Henry Ford
1448) "None of our men are 'experts.' We have most unfortunately found it necessary to get rid of a man as soon as he thinks himself an expert--because no one ever considers himself expert if he really knows his job. A man who knows a job sees so much more to be done than he has done, that he is always pressing forward and never gives up an instant of thought to how good and how efficient he is. Thinking always ahead, thinking always of trying to do more, brings a state of mind in which nothing is impossible. The moment one gets into the 'expert' state of mind a great number of things become impossible."-Henry Ford
1449) "...the law which is never to be broken is never required."-Andrew Carnegie
1450) "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. I know you think of me as just a friend, and crossing that line is the furthest thing from an option you'd ever consider. 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. I know this will probably queer our friendship--no pun intended--but I had to say it, because I've never felt this before, and I like who I am because of it. And if bringing it to light means we can't hang out anymore, then that hurts me. But I couldn't allow another day to go by without getting it out there, regardless of the outcome, which by the look on your face is to be the inevitable shoot-down. And I'll accept that. But I know some part of you is hesitating for a moment, and if there is a moment of hesitiation, that means you feel something too. All I ask is that you not dismiss that--at least for ten seconds--and try to dwell in it. Alyssa, there isn't another soul on this fucking planet who's ever made me half the person I am when I'm with you, and I would risk this friendship for the chance to take it to the next plateau. Because it's there between you and me. You can't deny that. And even if we never speak again after tonight, please know that I'm forever changed because of who you are and what you've meant to me, which--while I do appreciate it--I'd never need a painting of birds bought at a diner to remind me of."-Kevin Smith, "Chasing Amy"
1451) "You know how when you put a stick in water, it gets bent; that's why I don't take baths."-Stephen Wright
1452) "You create identity, you're not given identity..."-Kathy Acker
1453) "I wish I could put a condom on my whole life...you know, safer life, less mess everywhere!"-Deborah Millstein
1454) "While the fast-paced culture we live in is often exhilarating, it also gives me an uneasy feeling that by just sitting back and relaxing, the world could be passing me by."-David Lauren
1455) "You don't MAKE yourself feel love, or passively 'fall' in love, but you let love ENTER you."
1456) "In life this predilection of one person for another lasts in very rare instances for years; generally for months, and sometimes for weeks, for days, for hours."-Leo Tolstoy
1457) "To keep silence is painful."-Leo Tolstoy
1458) "What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness!"-Leo Tolstoy
1459) "...I was conscious all the time of the impression I produced on others. At times, indeed, that impression served to guide me."-Leo Tolstoy
1460) "I have this strange condition wherein after I've watched a film with any kind of cool cinematography, for like an hour afterwards I'm looking at everything around me like it's a movie, like I'm the camera. I'm walking and thinking tracking shots, I'm moving my head and eyes around thinking panning, I'm blinking edits, I'm checking out my surroundings like I'm constantly sussing out shot composition. It's eerie."-Scott "Scotch" Herman
1461) "Put your ear next to my poems, fall down next to the rubble. Listen for a heartbeat. The difference is: a mediocre poet questions, a great poet answers. Under the flesh of the words, you may hear me ask: if these are pieces of me, then why must I shed them?"-Samson Craft
1462) "The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind."-Maya Angelou
1463) "There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go."-Tennessee Williams
1464) "Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."
1465) "When I dare/ to be powerful,/ to use my strength/ in the service of my vision,/ then it becomes/ less and less important/ whether I am afraid."-Audre Lorde
1466) "Wherever you are, that's where you were meant to be."
1467) "Do we have to live inside its walls to identify the cage?"-Ferron
1468) "I'm so tired, and I can't sleep/ Standing on the edge of something much too deep/ It's funny how we feel so much but we cannot say a word/ We are screaming inside but we can't be heard."-Sarah McLachlan
1468) "We need time to dream, time to remember, and time to reach the infinite. Time to be."-Gladys Taber
1469) "Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art...it has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."-C.S. Lewis
1470) "We can never replace a friend. When a man is fortunate enough to have several, he finds they are all different. No one has a double in friendship."-Friedrich von Schiller
1471) "There's so many different ways to be connected to people. There are the people you feel this unspoken connection to, even though there's not even a word for it. There's the people who you've known forever, who know you in this way that other people can't, because they've seen you change...they've let you change."-Angela on My So-Called Life
1472) "How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend."-William Rotsler
1473) "If we discovered that we had only five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them."-Charles Morley
1474) "When there's nothing left on earth to comfort you, there's always the guitar!"-Alan Craig
1475) "The moment of change is the only poem."-Adrienne Rich
1476) "...when certain aspects of reality are granted names, unnamed aspects become more overshadowed and thus more difficult to think about and articulate. Unnamed experiences are less visible, and therefore, in a sense, less real to the social world."-Rhoda Unger and Mary Crawford
1477) "If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life."-Abraham Maslow
1478) "Yes, they'll forget us. It's our fate, it can't be helped. A time will come when everything that seems serious, significant, or very important to us will be forgotten, or considered trivial. And the curious thing is that we can't possibly find out what will come to be regarded as great and important, and what will be feeble, or silly. Didn't the discoveries of Copernicus, or Columbus, say, seem unnecessary and ludicious at first, while wasn't it thought that some rubbish written by a fool, held all the truth? And so it may happen that our present existence, with which we are so satisfied, will in time appear strange, inconvenient, stupid, unclean, perhaps even sinful...."-Anton Chekhov, The Three Sisters
1479) "I often wonder: suppose we could begin life over again, knowing what we were doing? Suppose we could use one life, already ended, as a sort of rough draft for another? I think that every one of us would try, more than anything else, not to repeat himself, at the very least he would rearrange his manner of life, he would make sure of rooms like these, with flowers and light..."-Anton Chekhov, The Three Sisters
1480) "In Moscow you can sit in an enormous restaurant where you don't know anybody and where nobody knows you, and you don't feel all the same that you're a stranger. And here you know everybody and everybody knows you, and you, and you're a stranger...and a lonely stranger."-Anton Chekhov, The Three Sisters
1481) "In vino veritas. (In wine there is truth.)"
1482) "If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl. But by all means, keep moving."
1483) "Writing is one method of dealing with being human or wanting to suicide cause in order to write you kill yourself at the same time while remaining alive."-K. A.
1484) "The young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat."-William Faulkner
1485) "I heard one day the mistress of the Inn and Post Office talking of her two son in America. I heard her say that they were machine operators and they had lost their feet at the sewing machine. I took it literally, as indeed I took everyone else. So one day when I saw a rather tall boy of about fifteen pass our door on queer little wheels (roller skates) I could not keep tears out of my eyes. I thought this must be a machine operator who lost his feet at the machine. That a boy of that age could go about in open daylight on a plain week day, amusing himself, would never have occurred to me."-Rose Cohen
1486) "i have felt this foolish/ clueless sappy happy/ look on my face after/ being with you.../ and i mock myself/ so mercilessly for it/ but yet i miss it/ and sometimes when i/ look at you- see your eyes/ strong defiant daring laughing/ they say things to me:/ *you are like us*...*you need us*/ *why aren't we closer?*/ *come*/ *yes*- I want to/ say-- yes-- coming from the/ foolish sappy happy place/ always within me/ but usually i only wonder if/ it's my own clueless strangeness/ looking at your eyes/ and seeing voices."-Jen Martin, "seeing voices"
1487) "They never tell you it's an option just to keep going until you run yourself out."-Audrey Beth Stein
1488) "It's only when you can't keep on driving that you feel like you have to."-Audrey Beth Stein
1489) "They say education gets you everything, but it's not like that. So much of what you could do before, if you do now they say you're wasting a good education."-Audrey Beth Stein
1490) "But I've got my own things to think about and it's hard to put yourself in someone else's way of seeing the world even if you're real curious. It's like if you try too hard you might convince yourself that their way is the right one, even though it's only right for them, if anyone."-Audrey Beth Stein
1491) "She's got a way about her/ I don't know what it is/ But I know that I can't live without her/ She's got a way of pleasin'/ I don't know what it is/ But there doesn't have to be a reason/ Anyway/ She's got a smile that heals me/ I don't know why it is/ But I have to laugh when she reveals me/ She's got a way of talkin'/ I don't know what it is/ But it lifts me up when we are walkin'/ Anywhere/ She comes to me when I'm feelin' down/ Inspires me without a sound/ She touches me and I get turned around/ She's got a way of showin'/ How I make her feel/ And I find the strength to keep on goin'/ She's got a light around her/ And everywhere she goes/ A million dreams of love surround her/ Everywhere"-Billy Joel, "She's Got a Way"
1492) "Well we all have a face/ That we hide away forever/ And we take them out and/ Show ourselves/ When everyone has gone/ Some are satin some are steel/ Some are silk and some are leather/ They're the faces of the stranger/ But we love to try them on/ Well we all fall in love/ But we disregard the danger/ Though we share so many secrets/ There are some we never tell/ Why were you so surprised/ That you never saw the stranger/ Did you ever let your lover see/ The stranger in yourself?/ Don't be afraid to try again/ Everone goes south/ Every now and then/ You've done it, why can't/ Someone else?/ You should know by now/ You've been there yourself/ Once I used to believe/ I was such a great romancer/ Then I came home to a woman/ That I could not recognize/ When I pressed her for a reason/ She refused to even answer/ It was then I felt the stranger/ Kick me right between the eyes/ Well we all fall in love/ But we disregard the danger/ Though we share so many secrets/ There are some we never tell/ Why were you so surprised/ That you never saw the stranger/ Did you ever let your lover see/ The stranger in yourself?/ Don't be afraid to try again/ Everyone goes south/ Every now and then/ You've done it why can't/ Someone else?/ You should know by now/ You've been there yourself/ You may never understand/ How the stranger is inspired/ But he isn't always evil/ And he isn't always wrong/ Though you drown in good intentions/ You will never quench the fire/ You'll give in to your desire/ When the stranger comes along."-Billy Joel, "The Stranger"
1493) "In every heart there is a room/ A sanctuary safe and strong/ To heal the wounds from lovers past/ Until a new one comes along/ I spoke to you in cautious tones/ You answered me with no pretense/ And still I feel I said too much/ My silence is my self defense/ And every time I've held a rose/ It seems I only felt the thorns/ And so it goes, and so it goes/ And so will you soon I suppose/ But if my silence made you leave/ Then that would be my worst mistake/ So I will share this room with you/ And you can have this heart to break/ And this is why my eyes are closed/ It's just as well for all I've seen/ And so it goes, and so it goes/ And you're the only one who knows/ So I would choose to be with you/ That's if the choice were mine to make/ But you can make decisions too/ And you can have this heart to break/ And so it goes, and so it goes/ And you're the only one who knows"-Billy Joel, "And So It Goes"
1494) "Travel this journey of Indigo/ As worn souls reminisce of the Ghost of the past/ The Fugitive harbored so deeply, praying that It's Alright/ The essence of a love born through song/ Sitting there on the Watershed, our lives were Least Complicated/ The gentle breezes of the Southland in the Springtime/ How many nights of shooting stars did I wish that you would Let It Be Me/ Caramia sweet Caramia, oh such a Mystery/ Hoping so intently that Love Will Come through the Power of Two/ You and Me of the 10,000 Wars, we fell in love/ Intense the blaze of this Strange Fire, we held tightly to Life's Blood/ This Crazy Game we played believing that neither of us would Walk Away/ What made us fall so hard I Don't Wanna Know/ The History of Us, how we Tried so hard To Be True/ Yet somehow the Needle was Pushed Too Far, no longer did you Welcome Me/ Over time you Shed Your Skin, but to Make It Easier/ Fearing being Left A Fool, You Left It Up To Me/ For a brief moment I thought you were Joking, how could it be/ The Keeper of My Heart transformed into the Prince of Darkness/ You Burned All the Letters, caused our Worlds to Fall,/ Feeling the pain of Blood and Fire/ There I stood the Girl With the Weight of the World in My Hands/ I wanted to scream so loudly Cut It Out, just Cut It Out/ Shame on You for deceiving my heart,/ Yet the comfort of Kind Friends helped me to/ Realize that Everything happens In Its Own Time/ The joy of Love's Recovery admist Kid Fears/ In order to save myself I had to bid you/ Fare Thee Well my love"-IndigoPoet, "Everything Indigo"
1495) "Tell me whom you love, and I will tell you who you are."-Houssaye
1496) "It is curious how silly trivial things, sometimes for no apparent reason, become signifigant. At first you laugh at these things, you think they are of no importance, you go on and you feel that you haven't got the strength to stop yourself....And so it seems to me that if I die, I shall take part in life one way or another."-Anton Chekhov , The Three Sisters
1497) "But sleep requires peace of mind, faith in life, forgiveness for suffering endured, and Voschev lay in arid tension of wakefulness and did not know--was he of any use in the world, or could everything go on just as well without him?"-Andrey Platonov, The Foundation Pit
1498) "You needed to have life for a long time to overcome with labor and forgetfulness this old-age cumulate world that hid within its darkness the truth of all existence. It might be easier to think out life's meaning inside your head; after all, you might guess it by chance or brush against it with sadly flowing feeling."-Andrey Platonov, The Foundation Pit
1499) "I wanna sink slowly without getting wet..."-Adam Duritz
1500) "I can't remember all the times I tried to tell myself to hold onto these moments as they pass..."-Adam Duritz, "A Long December"