I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where,
I love you simply, without problems or pride:
I love you in this way because I don't know any other way of loving

but this, in which there is no I or you,
so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand,
so intimate that when I fall asleep it is your eyes that close.

Who Said It?: 

Pablo Neruda

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Sonnet XVII

Submitted on Friday, April 24, 2009 - 08:50 — Gabrielle
Link to full quote: Quote #2237 from Sonnet XVII by Pablo Neruda.

Cut my life into pieces
I've reached my last resort
Suffocation, no breathing
Don't give a fuck if I cut my arm bleeding
Do you even care if I die bleeding?
Would it be wrong, would it be right
If I took my life tonight
Chances are that I might
Mutilation out of sight
And I'm contemplating suicide.

Who Said It?: 

Papa Roach

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Last Resort

Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — Gabrielle
Link to full quote: Quote #108 from Last Resort by Papa Roach.

'So the loss of memory applies to the later part of your service in France, but the early part - the first six months or so - is comparatively clear?'

'Ye-es.'

Rivers sat back in his chair. 'Would you like to tell me something about that early part?'

'No.'

'But do you remember it?'

'Doesn't mean I want to talk about it.' He looked round the room. 'I don't see why it has to be like this anyway.'

'Like what?'

'All the questions from you, all the answers from me. Why can't it be both ways?'

'Look, Mr Prior, if you went to the doctor with bronchitis and he spent half the consultation telling you about his lumbago, you would not be pleased. Would you?'

'No, but if I went to my doctor in despair it might help to know he at least understood the meaning of the word.'

'Are you in despair?'

Prior sighed, ostentatiously impatient.

'You know, I talk to a lot of people who are in despair or very close to it, and my experience is that they don't care what their doctor feels. That's the whole point about despair, isn't it? That you turn it on yourself.'

'Well, all I can say is I'd rather talk to a real person than a strip of empathic wallpaper.'

Rivers smiled. 'I like that.'

Prior glared at him.

Who Said It?: 

Pat Barker

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Regeneration

Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:30 — Gabrielle
Link to full quote: Quote #1771 from Regeneration by Pat Barker.

I clear a space to write, for you, to you, against you. You are the measure of my abilities. I reach for your exactitude, your ambition, your folly. You are the tide mark on the bridge, the level to reach. You are the face who always avoids my glance, the man who is just leaving the bar. I search for you through the spirals of all my sentences. I throw out whole pages of manuscript because I cannot find you in them. I search for you in small details, in the shapes of my verbs, the quality of my phrases. When I can write no more because I am too tired, my head aches, my left arm is cramped with tension, and I am left irresolute, I get up, go out, drink, cruise the streets. Sex is a brief gesture, I fling away my body with my money and my fear. It is a sharp sensation which fills the empty space before I can go in search of you again. I repent nothing but the frustration of being unable to reach you. You are the glove that I find on the floor, the daily challenge I take up. You are the reader for whom I write.

Who Said It?: 

Patricia Duncker

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Hallucinating Foucault

Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — Gabrielle
Link to full quote: Quote #659 from Hallucinating Foucault by Patricia Duncker.

Life, like some grand mosaic slowly loses hold over time, and the fragile strands that connect the many different parts unravels. The universe is a mirror, fragile and reflective, and we all stand in awe of our own human vanity. Fools see the universe as linear, absolute, all knowing. The wise see the universe as chaotic, unknown, fragile. Only on the verge of infinity can one see the fall apart universe. Sadness is knowing that we all stand upon a universe with a cracked glass bottom, and in an instant we may all sink into oblivion. Everything falls apart. Empires rise and crumble as tin soldiers hold plastic banners of righteous intent, all soaked with the blood of innocents. Hands raise and fall to the deafening sound of a million questions all unanswered. Love is just another unfelt emotion, talked about but never seen in full bloom. Love is only rumor and hearsay in the fall apart universe. Eventually we all must stand upon the jagged glass of the broken boundaries and broken promises. We must all suffer the soul bleeding that follows as the tattered splinters dig deep.

Who Said It?: 

Patrick Goins

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The Fall Apart Universe

Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — Gabrielle
Link to full quote: Quote #443 from The Fall Apart Universe by Patrick Goins.

these are the screams within
these these are the life streams bleeding from skin.

Who Said It?: 

Patrick Jones

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The Eloquence in the Screaming

Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — Gabrielle
Link to full quote: Quote #191 from The Eloquence in the Screaming by Patrick Jones.

I spit, I spit in the eye, I tear, I tear out my heart, and I scatter the bits.
I stay unseen by the light, I stay untold by the truth
I'm sold by a lie
By this I am able in all of my travels to make these memories quit
But tonight I clearly recall every little bit.

Who Said It?: 

Patty Griffin

Source: 

Every Little Bit

Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:30 — Gabrielle
Link to full quote: Quote #1925 from Every Little Bit by Patty Griffin.