The butterflies don't ever stop and time does not exist in such a dark place.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — GabrielleWho Said It?:A Long WinterSource:Her Delicate Yearning
Link to full quote: Quote #971 from Her Delicate Yearning by A Long Winter.
I had been burning myself for a long time. Then I told my family and had them get rid of my supplies. I became even more depressed and irritable because my supplies were gone forever, even worse they had been banished at my own request. Then I realized the supplies were right at my fingertips. Within my reach. Not banished as I had thought. Scratch, scratch, scratch.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:31 — GabrielleWho Said It?:a SI-er
Link to full quote: Quote #2201 from thoughts by a SI-er.
'Pooh, promise you won't forget about me, ever. Not even when I'm a hundred.'
Pooh thought for a little while. 'How old shall I be then?'
'Ninety-nine.'
Pooh nodded. 'I promise,' he said.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:A.A. MilneSource:The House at Pooh Corner
Link to full quote: Quote #252 from The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne.
She searched me carefully, as with a scene on is asked to memorize; that is, as if she might never see me again. 'Thank you for a pleasant walk, Asgar.'
'It was pleasant.'
'Yes.'
'I'm grateful you could come Alice.'
'It's been nice.'
Dull, ordinary words for people who want the moment to die. And perhaps, I did. It was too awful to think that I had preserved my heart so long ago and that now, years later, I had stuck it in my chest, smelling of formaldehyde, and found it too sorry and shriveled to work. But it's a common tale. Isn't there a statue, in Shakespeare, of a long-dead queen who comes to life before the eyes of her mourning king? The king rejoices and repents, but what does he do the next day? Does he remember how she sang off-key as she brushed her hair, how she screeched at servants?
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:30 — GabrielleWho Said It?:A.S. GreerSource:The Confessions of Max Tivoli
Link to full quote: Quote #2059 from The Confessions of Max Tivoli by A.S. Greer.
hatred is a mirror.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Abby Parkerway
Link to full quote: Quote #367 by Abby Parkerway.
Gaining weight and pulling my head out of the toilet was the most political act I have ever committed.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Abra Fortune ChernikSource:The Body Politic
Link to full quote: Quote #329 from The Body Politic by Abra Fortune Chernik.
I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be a cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better I can not tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, it appears to me.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Abraham Lincoln
Link to full quote: Quote #179 from letter to John Stuart (January 23, 1841) by Abraham Lincoln as quoted in Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln. Volume 1.
Life dries cold beneath the dead soul lights
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — Gabrielle
When death sleeps, it dreams of you.
Link to full quote: Quote #999 from Dead Girl by Acid Bath.
I cut myself again and again to remind myself of you.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Acid BathSource:Scream of the Butterfly
Link to full quote: Quote #850 from Scream of the Butterfly by Acid Bath.
In reality, loneliness was more like a slow and constant drowning. I simply disappeared. The hall and classroom swallowed me up, and I became invisible, my quiet flailing unnoticed.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:30 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Adele GriffinSource:Amandine
Link to full quote: Quote #1506 from Amandine by Adele Griffin.
By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven. [...] The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Adolf HitlerSource:Mein Kampf
Link to full quote: Quote #216 from Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler.
They can rule the world while they can persuade us
our pain belongs in some order.
Is death by famine worse than death by suicide,
than a life of famine and suicide ...?Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Adrienne RichSource:Power. Hunger.
Link to full quote: Quote #1218 from Power. Hunger. by Adrienne Rich.
She says : I do not know
if sex is an illusionI do not know
who I was when I did those things
or who I said I was
or whether I willed to feel
what I had read about
or who in fact there was with me
or whether I knew, even then
that there was doubt about these things.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Adrienne RichSource:Dialogue
Link to full quote: Quote #606 from Dialogue by Adrienne Rich.
Even where love has run thin
the child's soul musters strength...
--the rush of purpose to make a life
worth living past abandonment
building the layers up again
over the torn hole.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Adrienne RichSource:meditations for a savage child
Link to full quote: Quote #553 from meditations for a savage child by Adrienne Rich.
Most women have not even been able to touch this anger, except to drive it inward like a rusted nail.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Adrienne Rich
Link to full quote: Quote #315 from Disloyal to Civilization: Feminism, Racism, Gynephobia by Adrienne Rich.
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