"Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it?
It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest
and it opens your heart and it means someone can
get inside you and mess you up. You build up
all these defenses. You build up this whole armor,
for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid
person, no different from any other stupid person,
wanders into your stupid life... you give them a piece
of you.
"They don't ask for it. The do something dumb one day
like kiss you, or smile at you, and then your life
isn't your own any more. Love takes hostages. It gets
inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying
in the darkness, so a simple phrase like 'maybe we
should just be friends' or 'how very perceptive' turns
into a glass splinter working its way into your heart.
It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the
mind. It's a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real
gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love."
--Rose Walker, Sandman: The Kindly Ones
(Neil Gaiman)
"Through me the road to the city of desolation
Through me the road to sorrows diuturnal
Through me the road among the lost creation.
"Justice moved my great maker; God eternal
wrought me: the power and the unsearchably
high wisdom, and the primal love supernal.
"Nothing ere I was made twas made to be
Save things eterne, and leterne abide;
lay down all hope, you that go in by me."
-- Dante, The Divine Comedy
Cantica 1: Hell
(the inscription on the gateway to Hell)
"I hide nothing from you, not my ignorance, nor my fear, not the simple terror that if I try I might fail. I do
not even know if it is mine to give more than once, or what is the price of giving it, but I will risk this for
you, and we will discover it together, whatever the mystery and the terror, just as I've discovered alone
all else."
--Anne Rice, The Vampire Lestat
"Death is there to keep us honest and constantly remind us we are free."
-- Dan Fogelberg, "Ghosts"
"Maybe this world is another planet's hell."
-- Aldous Huxley
"Every man is as God made him, aye, and often worse."
-- Miguel de Cervantes
"When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the
darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares
still walking. When we hold each other we feel not safe, but
better.'It's all right' we whisper, 'I'm here, I love you.' and we lie:
'I'll never leave you.' For just a moment or two the darkness doesn't
seem so bad."
-- Neil Gaiman, "Hold Me"
"Love anything and your heart will be wrung and
possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping
it intact you must give it to no one, not even an
animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and
little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it
up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.
But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless,
airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will
become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable."
-- C.S. Lewis
"There is no knight in shining armor, there is no white stallion. There
is only heartbreak and pain, and, amidst it all, somewhere, a rainbow."
-- UNK
"Many people lead unhappy, unachieved lives.
And that's sad. Goth is about making depression
and angst a lifestyle choice, and that's art."
-- from 'The Goth Primer' (formerly at http://lexicon.psy.tufts.edu/gothic/primer.html)
"Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it."
-- Andre Gide
"A night full of passion can bring a lifetime of pain."
-- Thin Line Between Love & Hate
"Anything happens to my daughter... I've got a .45 and a shovel.
I doubt anybody would miss you."
-- Mel, Clueless
Healthy is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
"You're trying to keep the world out by being aggressively funny, or
by mocking it, because somewhere along the line, you let it in, you
hurt."
-- Robin Williams
Advice from my mother:
"Men shouldn't have balls. They don't deserve them."
"Men don't know what to do unless you tell them"
"You know how your father is... he doesn't deserve them either."