I like to need things.

Alone people don't like hearing about together people.

I prefer riding the subway when it's crowded because then I can pretend the person next to me is with me. "Oh we're just having a silly argument is why we're not speaking right now," is what I'd say if anyone asks. No one ever asks.

--Tiny Ghosts

"I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things."

--Robert Plant

I think we still love what we always loved.

To say I love you more than life is misleading. I love you in a way that makes life more.

--Tiny Ghosts

"Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties."

--Jules Renard

"I want to tell Tobey about when I was standing in this exact same place last summer, wishing for him to be real. But it's hard to remember life before Tobey. He makes eveything seem possible. Like whatever you feel is true, really true in your heart, you can make happen. And you just know, when it happens, its for real. And there are a million possibilities. Like the possibility of going separate ways. Together."

--Susane Colasanti, 'When It Happens'

"Find out what you love.

Do it because you love it.

Stick with it.

Start now."

— Barbara Sher

"And we danced too wild, and we sang too long, and we hugged too hard, and we kissed too sweet, and threw our heads and howled just as loud as we wanted to howl, because by now we were all old enough to know that what looks like crazy on an ordinary day, looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight."

--Pearl Cleage

I can’t stand the way people say, “When I was a child, I loved elephants,” “When I was a child, I loved balloons.” Are they trying to say that if they stopped and looked at a balloon today or at an elephant today, they would not love them? Why wouldn’t they love them? I think we still love what we always loved.. How could we not?

--Wallace Shawn

She hung on his every word.

Did you know that if you go into just about any bakery and tell them you are getting married, they'll give you a free slice of wedding cake to sample? "What a great idea for a first date," she said, taking his hand for the first time.

I think loneliness is the worst thing in the world. It's the only problem you can have where you can't turn to others for comfort.

There's nothing I want more in this world than to go home. It's just that I haven't decided exactly where that's gonna be just yet.

He loved her because she hung on his every word. He never realized that she couldn't help it, she had never mastered disinterest.

Sometimes I get down on myself because I've got all these problems. But then I look up at the sky and realize that the world is so big, and I'm so small, and I'm so insignificant that my problems don't really amount to all that much.

I prayed that God would give me enough time and enough sense and strength to be able to tell people what I knew (as I can't even do properly now), so they'd know what I know and not despair so much.
--Jack Kerouac

Once I realized that I'd never experience falling in love, I got it in my head that maybe falling off a bridge would feel about the same. It really doesn't though.

So the other day I was watching TV and I said out loud, "Darn, I wish I didn't just eat all those chips," and then I was like, "Wait, I didn't just eat any chips." And now I'm like, "Maybe I had one free wish and I blew it on chips."

I've come to the conclusion that I'm not actually living. I'm just killing time.

He named his daughter "Hurricane." He felt that if you could name a storm after a woman, why couldn't you name a woman after a storm?

When you told me that you thought I was extraordinary my heart skipped a beat. But the more I think about it, the more I realize you meant that I was just extra-ordinary.