March 2009
It’s a terrible feeling when you pour your heart out to someone, and they simply don’t care.
“But nothing is wasted. There’s no song you can listen to, no person you can...”
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.”
– Charlie Brown
“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the...”
– Oscar Wilde
“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who...”
– Lemony Snicket
C.S. Lewis, on the death of his wife
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times, it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, to want...
Isn’t it weird eating fast food sober? Like, I’ll eat it and I’ll be like, “Oh, that’s good.” But when you’re blacked out at like five in the morning, it’s like, “What is this?! What five-star restaurant are we at? What chef works here?! ARE WE IN NARNIA? What magic treat has entered my hand? Where is our wardrobe?!”
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
“Sometimes the best way to deliver a punch is to step back. But step back too far...”
– Million Dollar Baby
I am living proof that a person can love someone else with every fiber of their being — and then one day, inexplicably, stop.
“This loss will be met with a hurricane of love.”
– Elizabethtown
