Quotes By Letter: S

“Please die Ana
For as long as you're here we're not.”

-Ana's Song, Silverchair

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“Liberate the people that you hate
Then cut yourself again.”

-Point Of View, Silverchair

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“I've built walls
A fortress deep and mighty
That none may penetrate
I have no need for friendship
Friendship causes pain
It's laughter and it's loving I disdain.

I am a rock
I am an island.”

-I Am A Rock, Simon and Garfunkel

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“I've got nothing to do today but smile...
Half of the time we're gone but we don't know where.”

-The Only Living Boy In New York, Simon and Garfunkel

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“Some of us prefer illusion to despair.”

-The Simpsons [television show]

Recommended by Carla.

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“To be loved, you have to be nice to people every day but to be hated, you don't have to do squat.”

-The Simpsons [television show]

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“Jurgis, without a word, lifts Ona in his arms, and strides out with her, and she sinks her head upon his shoulder with a moan. When he reaches home he is not sure whether she has fainted or is asleep, but when he has to hold her with one hand while he unlocks the door he sees that she has opened her eyes.

'You shall not go to Smith's today, little one,' he whispers, as he climbs the stairs; and she catches his arm in terror, gasping: 'No! No! I dare not! It will ruin us!'

But he answers her again: 'Leave it to me; leave it to me. I will earn more money--I will work harder.'”

-The Jungle, Upton Sinclair

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“It was like being drunk, how you so rarely feel drunk enough to do the thing you want to, you still feel pinned back by your own sense of rational or the proper, but the next day, hung over, you realize just how drunk you were. You had a window of opportunity. If you had used it, you probably would have embarrassed yourself, but in not using it, you wasted something irretrievable.”

-Prep, Curtis Sittenfeld

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“she's dead if you want and that's me if you want
stuffed in the corner 'little girl lost'
it's me if you want but it's not what i want
i want to burn up the place
set it on fire
i claw and i scratch i beg and i scream
i just need you to save me this last time

she's back because she wants to not be contained
i can't tell the truth i can't speak this way

you can't find me
you're in the dark
i'm right here
stay where you are.”

-Stay Where You Are, Sleater-Kinney

Recommended by Carla.

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“When there's nobody left in your heart, left in your head
When the whole world has packed up in shadows and left you for dead
When you can't fake a smile and you just can't get out of your bed.”

-Life In Disguise, The Slip

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“I keep my scars from prying eyes
Incapable of ever knowing why.”

-Diluted, Slipknot

Recommended by Suzanne.

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“Shallow skin, I can paint with pain
I mark the trails on my arms with your disdain
Everyday it's the same - I LOVE, YOU HATE
But I guess I don't care any more...
Fix my problems with the blade
While my eyes turn from blue to gray
God, the worst thing happened to me today
But I guess I don't care anymore...”

-Everything Ends, Slipknot

Recommended by Amanda.

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“I need someone to ease my mind - but sometimes a someone is so hard to find.”

-In The Arms Of Sleep, Smashing Pumpkins

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“Pink ribbon scars
That never forget
I tried so hard
To cleanse these regrets.”

-Today, Smashing Pumpkins

Recommended by Lanthis.

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“In the air it hung that she was dull razors
And I said, 'I wanna fill you up, I wanna break you, I wanna give you up.'”

-XYU, Smashing Pumpkins

Recommended by Emily.

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“My reflection,
dirty mirror
there's no connection
to myself I'm your lover
I'm your zero
I'm the face in your dream of glass

[...]

emptiness is loneliness, and loneliness
is cleanliness
and cleanliness is godliness, and god is empty
just like me.”

-Zero, Smashing Pumpkins

Recommended by Sibyl.

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“Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine.”

-City Poem: Dreamthorpe, Alexander Smith

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“It's 2:45 in the morning
And I'm putting myself on warning
For waking up in an unknown place
With a recollection you've half erased
Looking for somebody's arms to
Wave away past harms.”

-2:45 AM, Elliott Smith

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“Time to kill wrote a living will and gave it to the man in the moon
But I'm on a get well soon
This happy face is watching me die
Elevate me to another world
All that I can do in my own
Is leave well enough alone.”

-A Living Will, Elliott Smith

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“Drink up baby, stay up all night
With the things you could do, you won't but you might
The potential you'll be that you'll never see
The promises you'll only make
People you've been before that you don't want around anymore
That push and shove and won't bend to your will
I'll keep them still.”

-Between The Bars, Elliott Smith

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“They're waking you up to close the bar
The street's wet you can tell by the sound of the cars
The bartender's singing Clementine
While he's turning around the open sign
Dreadful sorry Clementine
Though you're still her man
It seems a long time gone
Maybe the whole thing's wrong
What if she thinks so but just didn't say so?
You drank yourself into slo-mo
Made an angel in the snow
Anything to pass the time
And keep that song out of yr mind
Oh my darling
Oh my darling
Oh my darling Clementine
Dreadful sorry Clementine.”

-Clementine, Elliott Smith

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“The litebrite's now black and white
Cause you took apart a picture that wasn't right
Pitch burning on a shining sheet
The only maker that you'd want to meet
The dying man in a living room
Who's shadow paces the floor
Who'll take you out in the open door
This is not my life
It's just a fond farewell to a friend
It's not what I'm like
It's just a fond farewell to a friend
Who couldn't get things right
Fond farewell to a friend
He said really I just wanna dance
Good and evil matched perfect it's a great romance
I can deal with some physic pain
If it'll slow down my higher brain
Veins full of disappearing ink
Vomiting in the kitchen sink
Disconnecting from the missing link
This is not my life
It's just a fond farewell to a friend
It's not what I'm like
It's just a fond farewell to a friend
Who couldn't get things right
Fond farewell to a friend
I see you're leaving me and taking up with the enemy
The cold comfort of the in between
A little less than a human being
A little less than a happy high
A little less than a suicide
The only things that you really tried
This is not my life
It's just a fond farewell to a friend
It's not what I'm like
It's just a fond farewell to a friend
Who couldn't get things right
Fond farewell to a friend
This is not my life
It's just a fond farewell to a friend ”

-Fond Farewell, Elliott Smith

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“The big problem is the main attraction
Dominoes are falling in a chain reaction
The scraping subject ruled by fear told me
Whiskey works better than beer
The judge is on vinyl, decisions are final
And nobody gets a reprieve.”

-King's Crossing, Elliott Smith

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“Church bells and now I'm awake and I guess it must be some kind of holiday
I can't seen to join in the celebration
But I'll go to the service
And I'll go to pray
And I'll sing the praises of my maker's name
Like I was as good as she made me
And I wanted her to tell me that she would never wake me.”

-Last Call, Elliott Smith

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“i'll tell you why i don't
want to know where you are
i got a joke i been dying to tell you
a silent kid is looking down the barrel
to make the noise that i kept so quiet
i kept it from you, pitseleh

i'm not what's missing from your life now
i could never be the puzzle pieces
they say that god makes problems
just to see what you can stand
before you do as the devil pleases
and give up the thing you love
but no one deserves it

the first time i saw you
i knew it would never last
i'm not half what i wish i was
i'm so angry, i don't think it'll ever pass
and i was bad news for you, just because
i never meant to hurt you.”

-Pitseleh, Elliott Smith

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