Life is Hard. When you can't sparkle.

Merry Christmas!

***

Medicine

I like to call in sick to work at places where I’ve never held a job. Then when the manager tells me I don’t work there, I tell them I’d like to. But not today, as I’m sick.

Jarod  Kintz, This Book is Not for Sale

***

Freedom

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.

Jean-Paul Sartre

***

Don't fuck with me, fellas. This cowgirl has been to the rodeo before.

***

This is Sunday

Love means never having to be apart

James Patterson, Sundays at Tiffany's

***

C'mom- Do you Want To Live Forever?

One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.

John Lennon

***

Beauté

There’s something heroic in a woman–-Brigitte Bardot, Anita Ekberg, Marianne Faithfull–-who takes great beauty, smokes it down to the filter and grinds it out under her sole.

 Farran Smith Nehme

 

 I leave before being left. I decide.
Brigitte Bardot

 

 I`m very much bigger than I was, so what? It`s not really fatness, it`s development.

 Anita Ekberg

Never apologize, never explain - didn't we always say that? Well, I haven't and I don't.

Marianne Faithfull

***

We cannot rein wild horses with silken braids.

You know I can't let you slide through my hand... 

***

Tristesse

...memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for.

Zelda Fitzgerald, Save Me the Waltz

 

 

***

Obligation

If you can't be a good example then you'll have to be a terrible warning.

Susanne Braun Levine 

***

Issues with Universe.

 

The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. 

***

All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever'.

 

***

Fifty shades of *ucked up

The pleasure in complete domination over another person (or other animate creature) is the very essence of the sadistic drive. Another way of formulating the same thought is to say that the aim of sadism is to transform man into a thing, something animate into something inanimate, since by complete and absolute control the living loses one essential quality of life - freedom.

Erich Fromm

***

LazySunday

and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.

***

Bride of Death

Of all the weapons she had commanded, Elizabeth knew the least of love; and of all the weapons in the world, love was the most dangerous.

Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies 

***

The bar's closed.

"All you need is love and to believe in yourself."
Nice idea. It doesn't exactly work out that way. But I guess it was better to hear a flat-out lie than to know the truth at 13. 

Aileen,  "Monster"

***

To sell somebody down the river.

Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

 

...for a very long time

“He loved her for almost everything she was & she decided that was enough to let him stay for a very long time.” 

Brian Andreas 

***

Hold Close

Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.

Milan Kundera , Laughable Lovers 

***

He is broken in three ways, sometimes four. I count them.

***

lovely is a dangerous thing to be

i feel lost

               inside myself

***

People are too complicated to have simple labels

I'm not mad. I'm just...well, differently moraled, that's all.

Poor bastards

 It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.

***

Trouble is.

“She looked like the kind of woman I could fall in love with. Trouble is, she was standing next to the kind of woman I’d like to make love to. 
”

- Jarod Kintz, This Book Has No Title

Because when You do

 

Sink or Swim

***

a long one

Only a true best friend can protect you from your immortal enemies.

***

Sex And The City

Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.

***

Love takes hostages.

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

Neil Gaiman , The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones

Best of the rest.

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

***

Never underestimate the power of a cigarette

I feel the happiest when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.

***

Sad Mouse Story

 I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.”
― C.S. Lewis

 

***

Whatever!

 

***

You first.

Boy, life takes a long time to live.
    --STEVEN WRIGHT

***

The only substitute for good manners is fast reflexes

 

***

You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.

 

***

We're not bad people. We just come from a bad place.

All right, then, I'll go to hell.
Mark Twain

***

Some people never go crazy...

"That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”

 

 “And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.”

“Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”

― Charles Bukowski, Women

***

***

Saturday

Too much of a good thing... can be wonderful!
Mae West

***

Pass With Care

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.  

Johnny Cash

***

I don't know what your problem is, But I'll bet it'll be hard to pronounce

 

***

The next time you have a thought... let it go.

 

 Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

 e.e. cummings

***

You're gonna need a bigger boat.

 

I feel like an idiot. But I am an idiot, so it kinda works out. 

 

***

Lie WIth Me

You have to wait... until you're uncovered. You have to wait with someone naked. And then you have to wait some more.

***

Desert Rose

 “Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”

 "To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."

“Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.”

- C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

***