Quotes for everyone

“ The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.

-Chuck Palahniuk

"I have learned now that while those who speak about their miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence, hurt more."

- C.S Lewis

"Some people can just move on, you know. They mourn and cry and then they're done with it.Or at least appear to be. But to me, I don't know. I didn't want to fix it, I didn't want to forget it. It wasn't something that was broken, it was something that happened. And I'm finding ways, everyday, of working around it. I'm respecting and remembering it, but I'm getting along with my life at the same time."

"Are you okay?"
"Just running on empty"

" Don't waste your youth growing up"

It'd be nice if we had a course in school called Real Life. Forget don't-drink-and-drive videos and plastic models of the uterus. Imagine a class where they sit you down and spell everything out, deploying all of that information delivered to us by our ever-growing army of wise surviving ninetysomethings....
....Falling out of love happens as quickly as falling in.
....Good-looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.
....Animals spend time with you only if you feed them.
....People armed with shopping carts who know what they want and where they're going will always cream clueless people standing in the middle of aisles holding vague shopping lists.
....Time speeds up in a terrifying manner when you reach you mid-thirties.


"If you don't start putting yourself ahead of everyone else, I'm afraid you're gonna wake up one day and wonder what could have been. I don't want that for you. Put yourself first sometimes."

-One Tree Hill


"We were just there together.
And that was enough."

- The Perks of Being a Wallflower


"There's a little truth behind every just kidding.
A little curiosity behind every just wondering.
A little knowledge beholds every I don't know.
And a little emotion behind every I don't care."

"Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs."
Chrissy - age 6


-em