Words are just letters arranged in ways that make sense.

"Inside her ribcage city, Lies an abandoned heart hotel, Haunted with the memories, Of a time it once knew well, If you're quiet and imagine, You can hear the closing doors, The forgotten conversations, And the footsteps on the floors, It was open many years ago, When she was still young and naive, Believing if she gave enough, she'd eventually receive, Each day she cleaned and cooked, To ensure comfort for her guests, But as people kept arriving, It grew heavy in her chest, Eventually to hear herself, She almost had to shout, Over the people who had once moved in, And then never moved out, Although they'd faded from her life, Their memories roamed the halls, For she was so afraid of heartbreak, That she clung onto them all, But hotels aren't designed, For everyone who comes, to stay, And when you keep cramming people in, Something's going to give way, And so the story goes, Her heart hotel slowly closed down, She learnt to let things go, And moved into a nicer town, That she's doing so much better, And she owns a cottage now, Where the ones she loves the dearest, Are the only guests she will allow." - e.h.

 "There's untamed electricity. Coursing though his veins, And it shocks you when you kiss him, but my god it's worth the pain." - e.h.

"I remember when the world broke in, To rip apart my soul, For years after that one event, I thought myself not whole, My hours were spent with trying, To fix it up with tape and glue, Until one day I discovered, Everyone else was broken too, Here we were with pieces, Of ourselves in both our hands, So fragile and so open, That I began to understand, Maybe I'd been greedy, To want my soul all to myself, When it could be a lot more helpful, In the palms of someone else, Now every time I go somewhere, I leave part of me behind, And collect all of the pieces, Of other's souls that I can find. So when I'm meeting someone new, It's not just me they get, But also tiny fragments, Of all the others that I've met, And my life's become much bigger, Now that it's home to things so small, And if this is what 'broken' means, I do not mind at all. e.h.

"You are so brave and quiet I forget that you are suffering." - Ernest Hemingway

 If you catch the train to nowhere, You'll find the strangest man I've met, Who claimed his ears were always ringing, With the sound of his regret, Back then time had not yet taught me Regret was not a sound I knew, So I thought nothing more than silence, Was left by the things you didn't do, He said he hoped the sound of nothing Was the worse I ever heard, Because regret drives you as crazy, As the taste of swallowed words, 'It's a stone thrown in a well,' he mused, And this I've not forgotten: 'It's listening all your life And never hearing it hit the bottom.' " - e.h. 

"I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead. Some come from behind. But I've brought a big bat, I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have trouble with me" - dr. seuss

"I fear I will always have to chase the things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for." - Libba Bray "A Great and Terrible Beauty"

"People have a habit of inventing fictions they will believe wholeheartedly in order to ignore the truth they cannot accept." - Libba Bray "The Sweet Far Thing"

 " 'I'm not sure if there's one right place I'm supposed to be,' he said, 'but there are a few wrong places I'd give a second try in a heartbeat.' " - Brain Andreas

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 "Every time they're at the sea, The oceans start to weep, wishing they were half as wide, As his love for her is deep." - e.h.

"Don't carry what you don't need - in your pocket, in your home, in your heart." - Joshua Becker

"Don't ever think you're alone here, We've just been trapped in different hells, And people aren't against you dear, They're just all for themselves." - e.h.

"They witnessed her destruction, Then we left to wonder why, She saw nothing but darkness, Though the stars shone in her eyes, But maybe they'd forgotten, When they failed to see the cracks, That a star's light shines the brightest, When it's starting to collapse." - e.h.

"She slept with wolves without fear, for the wolves knew a lion was among them." - r.m. drake

"If I leave you it doesn't mean I love you any less." - Warren Zevon

"I'm very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins, I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in." - Warren Zevon

Love and Loss Pt. 1

There are a million and one quotes about love and loss. These are just a few of my favorites. Since there are so many, I will call this part one. 

"I have looked at you in millions of ways, and I have loved you in each."

" Marriage does not guarantee you will be together forever, it's only paper. It takes love, respect, trust, understanding, friendship, and faith in your relationship to make it last."

"Maybe the point is that any marriage is work, but you may as well pick work that you like." - Mindy Kaling

" Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy."

"I'll throw my voice into the stars and maybe the echo of my words will be written for you in the clouds by sunrise. All I am trying to say is: I will love you through the darkness." - Christopher Poindexter

"Always be kinder than you feel."

"Relationships aren't designed for selfish individuals.

" You can't treat people like shit and expect them to love you."

"I want somebody with a sharp intellect and a heart from hell, somebody with eyes like starfire and a mouth with a kiss like a bottomless well, but mostly, I just want someone who will love me when I do not know how to love myself." - Beau Taplin, "Priorities"

 "Maybe we feel empty beacause we leave pieces of ourselves in everything we used to love." - r.m. drake

"Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things."

 "Don't rush and never settle. If it's meant to be, it will be."

"And in the end we were all just humans, drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight." - F. Scott Fitzgerald "Tender is the Night"

" 'The trick, kiddo,' his mom replied slowly, 'is finding someone who complements you instead of completes you. You need to be complete on your own.' "  

 "We both know who we are and I'm not changing a thing, I've never changed before. If loving me is work, I'm not a job to take." - Blue October

 "He wants to say I love you but keeps it to good night because love will mean falling, and she's afraid of heights." r.i.d.

 "Commitment means staying loyal to what you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in has left you."

 "She reminded him of happiness, he reminded her of home; together, they were happy and at home."

"I think, if  he was a book he'd be the one you throw across the room, then hours later, pick up again and leaf through its pages."

 "It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try to readjust the way you thought of things." - Lemony Snicket "The Reptile Room"

 "A relationship works best when both people believe they have got better than they deserve." 

"I guess we fell apart in the usual way, and the story's got dust on every page. But sometimes I wonder how you think about  it now, and I see your face in every crowd."

"You can always find something beautiful in something destructive and now I finally understand why I've always been so fond of you."

"Sometimes, I think of the sun and the moon as lovers who rarely meet, always chase, and almost always miss one another. But once in a while, they do catch up, and they kiss, and the world stares in awe of their eclipse."

"I loved her, not for the way she danced with my angels, but for the way the sound of her name could silence my demons." - Christopher Poindexter

 "because there's nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it's sent away." - Sarah Kay

"We accept the love we think we deserve." - The Perks of Being A Wallflower

"if you carry the bricks from your past relationship, you will end up building the same house."

"Marriage is about becoming a team. You're going to spend the rest of your life learning about each other, and every now and then, things blow up. But the beauty of marriage is that if you picked the right person and you both love each other, you'll always figure out a way to get through it." - Nicholas Sparks

"I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person." - Olivia Wilde

" Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having, she'd have waited for you.?' no, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

 "We could have been perfect if only we'd met when we were both too young to know better."

"You and I will always be unfinished business."

Welcome

Welcome to my blog! I have always loved quotes and have spent much of my life collecting various bits of songs, books, and general quotes. I intend to share them here, and will site sources when I have them. Not all of my quotes are happy or inspirational, and the quotes that get posted will vary greatly depending upon my mood.

• "We mature with the damage, not with the years." - Mateus Williams
• "She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars." - Neil Gaiman (Stardust)
• "Loving and losing: different only by one letter and a million degrees of pain." - Jessica Katoff
• "You should not have to rip yourself to pieces to keep others whole."
• "Forgive yourself each night, and recommit each morning."
• "When they called you a heartbreaker, there's no way they could have known, that you'd left no heart more broken, than the way you left your own." - e.h.
• We look up at the same stars and see such different things." 
• Just like the loss of love, it ain't the bullet that kills you. It's the space it leaves behind." - Miichael Xavier
• We all do things we said  we would never do."
• "Don't feel bad if people remember you only when they need you. Feel privileged that you are like a candle that comes to their mind when there is darkness."
• Expecting a trouble-free life because you are a good person is like expecting the bull not to charge you because you are a vegetarian." - Jeffrey R. Holland
• I'm not interest in competing with anyone else. I hope we all make it." - Erica Cook

I feel like that's enough for now. I know some of these can really be striking and I don't want to give you too much at once.