"It's never something huge that changes everything, but instead the tiniest of details, irrevocably tweaking the balance of the universe while you're busy focusing on the big picture." -Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
"Those who belong to Christ have nailed their natural evil desires to his cross and crucified them there."
-The Living Bible
"'But jealousy...it's a strange thing. So much more powerful than I would have thought. And irrational!'"
-Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
"'Undoubtedly,' replied Darcy, to whom the remark was chiefly addressed, 'there is a meanness in all the arts to which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.'" -Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
"A continuance in a place where every thing reminded her of former delight, was exactly what suited her mind". -Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility
"The silence isn't so bad/ 'Til I look at my hands and feel sad/ 'Cause the spaces between my fingers/ Are right where yours fit perfectly" -Adam Young (Owl City), Vanilla Twilight
"Your pepper spray is making it difficult for me to walk you home." -Adam Young (via Twitter)
"With friends like these, well, who needs enemies?" -Adam Young, The Bird and the Worm
"I wish I could cross my arms/ And cross your mind, 'cause I believe/ You'd unfold your paper heart/ And wear it on your sleeve/All my life, I wish I broke mirrors/ Instead of promises/ 'Cause all I see is a shattered conscience/ Staring right back at me" -Adam Young, Tidal Wave
"Alone on the outside/ So tired of looking in/ The end is uncertain /And I've never been so afraid/ But I don't need a telescope/ To see that there's hope/ And that makes me feel brave" -Adam Young, Tidal Wave
"I forget the last time I felt brave/ I just recall insecurity/ 'Cause it came down like a tidal wave/ And sorrow swept over me/ Then I was given and grace and love/ I was blind but now I can see/ 'Cause I found a new hope from above/ And courage swept over me" -Adam Young, Tidal Wave
"Bikes deserve to be ridden, beaches deserve to be sprawled upon, pizza deserves to be eaten and sauce spilled everywhere, vacations deserve to be taken, next door neighbors’ kiddy pools deserve to be swum in, footballs deserve to be kicked over the house and not stuck in the phone lines. Taco Bell deserves to be visited on a regular basis. Frozen french fries deserve to be cooked in the oven and irresponsibly burned to death. Summer deserves to be fun. And fun deserves to be had." -Adam Young, on his blog, referring to summer in Minnesota
"Someday we'll look back on all this, laugh nervously and change the subject." -Adam Young (via Twitter)
"It goes without saying that materialism is fleeting and will inevitably come and go but what if the things that inspire you actually have effects beyond the way you write if you’re an author, the way you strum if you’re a musician, the way you see the world through lenses if you’re a photographer, the way you paint the page if you’re an artist…
The sky really is the limit." - Adam Young, on his blog
"Sleep and death are just the same
From both I can return
I emerge from sleep just by waking
And from death, I return with words."
-from Golden Tongue: The Poems of Steven Slaughter (discovered by myself in Ballad by Maggie Stiefvater)
"...you've left my heart shaken
With a hopeless desolation, I'd have you to know
It's the wonders of admiration your quiet face has taken
And your beauty will haunt me wherever I go."
- "Bridgit O'Malley" (discovered by myself in Lament by Maggie Stiefvater)
"The Minstrel Boy to the war is gone-
In the ranks of death you will find him."
-"The Minstrel Boy" (discovered by myself in Lament by Maggie Stiefvater)
"My love, fond and true,
What else could I do-
But shield you from wind and from weather?
When the shots fall like hail,
They us both shall assail-
And mayhap we shall die together."
-"Ned of the Hill" (discovered by myself in Lament by Maggie Stiefvater)
"Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity/ To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment/ Would you capture it? Or just let it slip?" -Marshall Mathers (Eminem), Lose Yourself
"But you lied again, now you get to watch her leave out the window/ Guess that's why they call it 'window pane'" -Marshall Mathers, Love the Way You Lie
"In my weakest moments I weep/ 'Cause I like the way, tears fit my cheek/ In darkest moments I cry/ Oh, how I love the way tears suits my face" -Lykke Li, Let It Fall
"There's nowhere to go but on" -Feist, My Moon My Man
"Every good author steals from the truth. Better authors use those truths for bigger and better lies."
-Maggie Stiefvater (via Twitter)
"As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air." -Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver
"Tears are the hydraulic force by which masculine willpower is defeated by feminine water power." (Unknown)
"That pause where I wait for the foam to die down before I finish pouring the diet coke into the glass, that's "me" time." -Mark Hoppus
"'Cause we're all guilty of the same things/We think the thoughts whether or not we see them through" -Relient K, Forgiven
"Sleep don't visit, so I choke on sun/ And the days blur into one/ And the backs of my eyes hum with things I've never done" -Radical Face, Welcome Home
If we were children I would bake you a mudpie/ Warm and brown beneath the sun/Never learned to climb a tree but I would try/ Just to show you what I'd done...If I were old, my dear, you would be older/But I would crawl upon your lap/ Wrap a blanket 'round our frail little shoulders/ And I'd die happily like that -A Fine Frenzy, What I Wouldn't Do
"Want some cheerios?" "...Where are the marshmallows?" "No marshmallows. Just fiber and heart-healthy goodness and the taste that kids love." "Dude, kids love the taste of marshmallows." -Robin Benway, Audrey, Wait!
"I'd tell you I miss you, but I don't know how/I've never heard silence quite this loud." -Taylor Swift, The Story Of Us
"'My asthma--
'Sucks to your ass-mar.'" -William Golding, Lord of the Flies
"If we live through this, I'll follow you anywhere, woman." -Stephenie Meyer, Breaking Dawn
"Hopped up on a gypsy train with tracks that you can hide/ That way no storm could follow our
tomorrows/ But Shackled to a suitcase full of automatic thunder/ CLAP!/ All hail to death’s boy-wonder"-Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Come In Please
"She got sunset on her breath/ I inhaled just a little bit/ Now I got no fear of death" -Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, 40 Day Dream
"Dear God, You're the only North Star, / I would follow this far"-Adam Young, Galaxies
"There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus." Galatians 3:28
"If I could walk on water, If I could tell you what’s next/ Make you believe..." -Matt Nathanson, Come On Get Higher
"Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap." Galatians 6:7
"I'm scared to death that I'll never be afraid" -Adam Young, Alligator Sky
"If you say there ain't no way that I could know/ If you say I aim too high from down below/ Well, say it now 'cause when I'm gone/ You'll be callin' but I won't be at the phone" -Lykke Li, I'm Good, I'm Gone
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