thoughts detained

“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