my week in quotes & pictures

Sunday

"After a certain age, there's no one left to turn to.
you've got
To find the small crack
between here and everywhere else all by yourself.

How could it be otherwise?
Everyone's gone away, the houses are all empty,
And overcast starts to fill the sky like soiled insulation."

-Charles Wright

Monday

"You're a miracle, Ronnie. We're all miracles. Know why? Because as humans, every day we go about our business, and all that time we know... we all know... that the things we love... the people we love, at any time now can all be taken away. We live knowing that and we keep going anyway."

-May McGorvey to Ronald James McGorvey in Little Children

Tuesday

"Far away far away, I want to go far away
To a new life on a new shore line
Where the water is blue and the people are new
To another island, in another life."

-Ingrid Michaelson, "Far Away"

Wednesday

"I want my will, and I want to be with my will
as it moves towards deed;
and in those quiet, somehow hesitating times,
when something is approaching,
I want to be with those who are wise
or else alone."

-Rainier Maria Wilke

Thursday

"Don't you know that when you sleep with someone, your body makes a promise whether you do or not?"

-Julie, played by Cameron Diaz, in Vanilla Sky

Friday

"When something bad happens
we play it back in our minds,
looking for a place to step in
and change things...But even the hero
who stands up to chance has to feel
how far the world will bend
until it breaks him."

-Lawrence Raab

Saturday

"I'm a diva, you best believe her, you see her, she getting paid. She ain't callin' him to greet her, don't need him, her bed's made."

-Beyonce, "Diva"