thoughts detained
2009
December
November
21
October
36
September
40
August
53
July
57
June
51
May
34
April
39
March
44
February
70
January
47
2008
December
136
November
35
October
31
September
46
August
39
July
66
June
88
May
20
April
March
February
January
I’m a good jumper, he said, but I’m not so good...
— Story People
Oct 1st
Maybe it’s maturity or the wisdom that comes with age,...
— Cynthia Nixon, Sex and the...
Sep 30th
Don’t you think that everyone looks back on their childhood...
— Katherine Hepburn, On Golden...
Sep 29th
If you feel betrayed by culture, it’s not because you’re...
— Chuck Klosterman, IV: A Decade...
Sep 28th
There are people who put their dreams in a little box and...
— Erma Bombeck
Sep 27th
With enough courage, you can do without a reputation.
— Clark Gable, Gone With the...
Sep 26th
If you want to know how much I love and care for you, count...
— Kenneth Koh
Sep 25th
You walk in, plant yourself squarely on both feet, look the...
— James Cagney
Sep 25th
When I made the decision to move overseas, I also made the...
— Jessa Crispin in The Smart Set...
Sep 24th
There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet...
— Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
Sep 24th
Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never...
— Garrison Keillor
Sep 23rd
I start to think there really is no cure for depression,...
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
Sep 22nd
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely...
— Jacques Prévert
Sep 21st
I just wish I could start a relationship about twelve years...
— Tina Fey, 30 rock
Sep 20th
I am feeling the need to do some drinking. Actually, I’m...
— Kate Walsh, Grey’s Anatomy
Sep 19th
I wanted to be the person [he] told things to. I wanted him...
— Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep
Sep 18th
Love is passion, obsession, someone you can’t live without....
— Anthony Hopkins, Meet Joe...
Sep 17th
It’s unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn’t have to say...
— Emma Thompson
Sep 17th
I hadn’t been out to the hives before, so to start off...
— Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life...
Sep 16th
It’s really human of you to listen to all my bullshit.
— Molly Ringwald, Sixteen...
Sep 15th
Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of...
— Lazurus Long
Sep 14th
Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you...
— Chuck Palahniuk (via...
Sep 14th
Most people are together just so they are not alone. But...
— Jean-Paul Scarpitta, Broken...
Sep 13th
Travel only with your equals or your betters; if there are...
— The Dhammapada, c. 100
Sep 12th
If you’re not excited by it, why do you do it?
— Amy Adams, Night at the...
Sep 11th
Our time here is magic! It’s the only space you have...
— Ben Okri
Sep 11th
The only way to live in any true security is to live so...
— Dorothy Day, Poverty Is to...
Sep 10th
I decided that the idea of manhood that I had been given,...
— Utah Phillips (via...
Sep 10th
It’s so curious: one can resist tears and...
— Colette
Sep 9th
When men attempt bold gestures, generally it’s...
— Sarah Jessica Parker, Sex and...
Sep 8th
I walk around the block to avoid you / And that’s...
— Minus 5, I’m Not Bitter
Sep 8th
And I like you. You’re funny, and you’re smart,...
— John Green, Paper Towns
Sep 8th
Well, isn’t it comforting to know that being miserable...
— Lauren Ambrose, Six Feet Under
Sep 8th
It’s not that I can’t live without you,...
— Joshua Jackson, Dawson’s...
Sep 7th
There is divine beauty in learning… To learn means to...
— Elie Wiesel
Sep 6th
The fifteen-year-old daughter of a friend of mine once...
Sep 5th
I’ve always thought that a big laugh is a really loud noise...
— Quincy Jones
Sep 5th
so throw me a rope, to hold me in place / show me a clock,...
— KT Tunstall, Throw Me A Rope
Sep 4th
Mourning is not forgetting… It is an undoing. Every...
— Margery Allingham
Sep 4th
I want to be a comfort to my friends in tragedy and I want...
— Bradley Whitford, The West...
Sep 3rd
She’ll outgrow it, dear. It’s just the age…the age where...
— Rochelle Hudson, Rebel Without...
Sep 2nd