thoughts detained

"There is clearly much left to be done, and whatever else we are going to do, we had better get on..."

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:57:52 -0800

“There is clearly much left to be done, and whatever else we are going to do, we had better get on with it.”

- Rosalynn Carter

"People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the..."

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:57:50 -0800

“People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you’ll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow.”

- Erma Bombeck

"A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they..."

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:56:48 -0800

“A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity.”

- Robert Doisneau

"A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is..."

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:07:47 -0800

“A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it’s impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.”

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

"She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls, if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies..."

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:07:09 -0800

“She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls, if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hands all the time, as if they were afraid they’d bore you or something. Jane was different. We’d get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we’d start holding hands, and we won’t quite till the movie was over. And without changing the position or making a deal out of it. You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.”

- J.D Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

"Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. ‘Pooh!’ he whispered. ‘Yes, Piglet?’..."

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:03:26 -0800

“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. ‘Pooh!’ he whispered. ‘Yes, Piglet?’ ‘Nothing,’ said Piglet, taking Pooh’s paw. ‘I just wanted to be sure of you.’”

- A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

"The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where..."

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:02:05 -0800

“The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.”

- Ben Okri

"Well I’ve been lost and I need direction / I could use a little love protection / What you say..."

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:41:47 -0700

“

Well I’ve been lost and I need direction /
I could use a little love protection /
What you say honey come to my defense /

I stand up for you if it’s what you need /
And I can take a punch, I don’t mind to bleed /
As long as afterwards you feel bad for me /

”

- Griffin House, The Guy That Says Goodbye Is Out of His Mind

"May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine."

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:41:15 -0700

“May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.”

- Frank Sinatra

"I don’t want to survive, I want to live!"

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:03:24 -0700

“I don’t want to survive, I want to live!”

- Jeff Garlin, WALL-E

"Well, I should probably just start first, that you, […] have just wrecked me. In the best..."

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 09:01:56 -0700

“Well, I should probably just start first, that you, […] have just wrecked me. In the best possible way, you have absolutely wrecked me. Because you see, I fell in love with you, knowing that there was never any possibility of being with you. Knowing full well that a sizeable chunk of your heart would always be wrapped up in our friend… And that much was actually okay with me. Right up to the point that you chose me. Cause then you just turned everything on it’s head. And I got everything that I wanted, and from that day forward, I’ve just been a wreck.”

- Joshua Jackson, Dawson’s Creek

"When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ it is a mere formality. It..."

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:02:06 -0700

“When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.”

- Erma Bombeck

"Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell..."

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:30:35 -0700

“Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated.”

- G.K. Chesterton (via kari-shma)

"The pain cannot even be alchemized into art, into words, into something you can chalk up to an..."

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:39:51 -0700

“The pain cannot even be alchemized into art, into words, into something you can chalk up to an interesting experience because the pain itself, its intensity, is so great that it has woven itself into your system so deeply that there is no way to objectify it or push it outside or find its beauty within.”

- Elizabeth Wurtzel

"The will to win is nothing without the will to prepare."

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:33:46 -0700

“The will to win is nothing without the will to prepare.”

- Roger Allam, Speed Racer

"Would you change anything? Like who you are with or what you do or what kind of person you are,..."

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:33:47 -0700

“Would you change anything? Like who you are with or what you do or what kind of person you are, because if you would: Do It Now! This is it, this is all we have: Right here, right now.”

- Peter Krause, Six Feet Under

"Have you ever noticed how transparent people are when you really look at them?"

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:32:49 -0700

“Have you ever noticed how transparent people are when you really look at them?”

- Walter Huston, Dodsworth

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus..."

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:31:31 -0700

“Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”

- Oprah Winfrey

"Love isn’t something you feel, it’s something you do. If the person you’re with..."

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:01:51 -0700

“Love isn’t something you feel, it’s something you do. If the person you’re with doesn’t want it, you know, do yourself a favor and save it for someone who does.”

- Peter Krause, Six Feet Under

"Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of..."

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:01:55 -0700

“Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.”

- Clarissa Pinkola Estes