“i still recall the taste of your tears
echoing your voice just like the ringing in my ears
my favorite dreams of you still wash ashore
scraping through my head 'till i don't want to sleep anymore.”

Something That I Can Never Have, Nine Inch Nails

“Hey, wait, I've got a new complaint
forever in debt to your priceless advice.”

Heart Shaped Box, Nirvana Recommended by ariasna.

“Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet.
Cut myself on angel hair and baby's breath.”

Heart Shaped Box, Nirvana Recommended by ariasna.

“Give me
A Leonard Cohen afterworld
So I
Can sigh eternally.”

Pennyroyal Tea, Nirvana Recommended by Daniel Hunt.

“I'm jumping off this moving ground, needing just to levitate.
I'm landing now, forgetting how, gravity ruins everything.”

With a Subtle Look, Now It's Overheard Recommended by Corey.

“A nothing is a dreadful thing to hold onto.”

Edna O'Brien

“A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie. There is no rectitude whatsoever. There is no virtue. As a first rule of thumb, therefore, you can tell a true war story by its absolute and uncompromising allegiance to obscenity and evil. Listen to Rat Kiley. Cooze, he says. He does not say bitch. He certainly does not say woman, or girl. He says cooze. Then he spits and stares. He's nineteen years old--it's too much for him--so he looks at you with those big sad gentle killer eyes and says cooze, because his friend is dead, and because it's so incredibly sad and true: she never wrote back.

You can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth; if you don't care for the truth, watch how you vote. Send guys to war, they come home talking dirty.

Listen to Rat: 'Jesus Christ, man, I write this beautiful fuckin' letter, I slave over it, and what happens? The dumb cooze never writes back.'”

The Things They Carried, Tim O'Brien

“It was a mistake, my being born a man. I'd have been better off as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must always be a little in love with death!”

Journey into Night, Eugene O'Neill

“'Does he exist in the same way I exist?'
'You do not exist.'”

1984, George Orwell

“He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.”

1984, George Orwell

“Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

Animal Farm, George Orwell

“Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.”

Keep the Aspidistra Flying, George Orwell

“i will tell you a secret,
5 lifetimes old ...

my life has been a prison,
a labyrinth built beneath the mountain of Tragedy.

i'm a stain on the cloth.
i'm just an after-thought.

but i
would die
for this ....

but through the veins of decay
i'll remain to betray

to live like Caesar.
to die like Jesus.

to build my own religion,
no gods, no laws

to celebrate pain
forsaken & ashamed

to watch them all,
crawl beneath us ...

on this bed of nails & regret
dying of fevers, betrayal, & sweat.”

Nein, OTEP Recommended by Alex.

“... the things you used to own, now they own you.”

Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk

“His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.”

Dorothy Parker

“hatred is a mirror.”

Abby Parkerway

“I have long feared that my sins would return to visit me, and the cost would be more than I can bear.”

The Patriot [movie] Recommended by Jaine.

“An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.”

Pope John Paul II Recommended by kimmysue.

“Fuck everyone pretending to like their father. Fuck being blown off. Fuck even trying. Fuck caring. Fuck trying to be in a good mood. Fuck being poor. Fuck not having the money. Fuck rice without butter. Fuck off. Fuck fifteen dollars. Fuck turning in cans. Fuck dirty dishes. Fuck cup-o-noodles. Fuck planes. Fuck Bill Gates. Fuck computers. Fuck your books. Fuck off. Fuck grades. Fuck being sixteen. Fuck compromises. Fuck work. Fuck society. Fuck off. Fuck pens with no ink. Fuck tailgaters. Fuck parallel parking. Fuck expensive stores. Fuck wanting. Fuck dreaming. Fuck, fuck, fuck. Fuck TEEN magazines and fuck hormones. Fuck safe sex, rock and roll, one night stands and meatloaf. Fuck!!! Fuck expensive CD's and kids who only burn and think they're cool. Fuck 80 dollar shoes and bling bling. Just seriously, fuck everything. I'm in the most negative mood possible and at this point in time I have absolutely no resolution to change it.”

Alicia Peaslee

“Curiosity, with it's many charms,
Can stir up serious regrets;
Thousands of examples turn up every day.
Women give in, but it's a fleeting pleasure;
Once satisfied, it ceases to be.
And always it proves very costly.”

Bluebeard, Charles Perrault

“Peter: You be quiet or I'll banish you just like Tink.
Wendy: I WILL NOT BE BANISHED.
Peter: Then leave. And take your feelings with you.”

Peter Pan [movie] Recommended by Britt.

“Everybody knows that something's wrong
But nobody knows what's going on.”

Lonely Day, Phantom Planet Recommended by Corey.

“I've got a strong urge to fly.
But I got nowhere to fly to.”

Nobody Home, Pink Floyd

“I wanna go home,
Take off this uniform and leave the show,
But I'm waiting here in this cell because I have to know,
Have I been guilty all this time?”

Stop, Pink Floyd

“This dream is driving me insane.”

The Gunner's Dream, Pink Floyd