dorothy parker

DISTANCE
Were you to cross the world, my dear
To work or love or fight,
I could be calm and wistful here,
And close my eyes at night.

It were a sweet and gallant pain
To be a sea apart;
But, oh, to have you down the lane
Is bitter to my heart.

We don't die because we are old, we die when we are complete. I like that thought. I don't ever want to be old but I do want to be complete. Always strive for completeness.

Just because somebody doesn't love you the way you want them to doesn't mean they don't love you with everything they got

The one who loves least controls the relationship

My biggest mistake wasn't falling for you, it was thinking you had fallen for me too.

Trust me, I know how it feels. I know how it hurts. I know you cry in the shower so no one will hear your screams. I know you wait until everyone goes to sleep to fall apart. Its not always easy but I know exactly what that feels like.

To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

My heart was taken by you, broken by you and now is in pieces because of you.

Many men kill themselves for love, but many more women die of it

Goodbye without reasons is the most painful one. Love without reasons is the most beautiful one.

Boys are like stars, there are millions of them out there, but only one can make your dreams come true

Ignore the risk, and take the fall, if it's meant to be, it's worth it all

I get the best feeling in the world when you say hi or even smile at me because I know, even if its just for a second, that I've crossed your mind.
UNKNOWN quotes

LOVE: We think about it, Sing about it, Dream about it && Loose sleep worrying about it. When we don't know we have it, we search for it. When we discover it, we don't know what to do with it. When we have it, we fear loosing it. It is the constant source of pleasure and pain. But we don't know which it will be from one moment to the next. It is a short word, easy to spell, difficult to define && IMPOSSIBLE to live without.

Breakfast at Tiffany's

You know what's wrong with you, Miss Whoever-you-are? You're chicken, you've got no guts. You're afraid to stick out your chin and say, "Okay, life's a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that's the only chance anybody's got for real happiness." You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself

" Those lips looked tasty, especially when they said things like ' i jumped up every time someone knocked, hoping it's be you"
— Lauren Kate (Fallen)

"Her heart was pounding impossibly fast. Then she realized She was feeling both of their hearts, racing each other. A kind of desperate conversation, one they couldn't have with words."
— Lauren Kate (Fallen)

"People who are chronically tardy never understand the many ways in which they screw up the schedules of people who are punctual and 'normal'..."
— Lauren Kate (Fallen)

"She buried her face in his shoulder. And while the truth still scared her, being in his arms made her feel like the sea finding its shore, like a traveler returning after a long, hard, distant trip-- finally returning home."
— Lauren Kate (Fallen)

"What if the one you were meant to be with, could never be yours?"
— Lauren Kate (Fallen)

"I don't understand what you're still doing here."
She blinked and nodded miserably, then began to turn away.
"No!" He pulled her back. "Don't leave. It's just that you've never—we've never... gotten this far." He closed his eyes. "Will you say it again?" he asked, almost shyly. "Will you tell me ... what I am?"
"You're an angel," she repeated slowly, surprised to see Daniel close his eyes and moan in pleasure, almost as if they were kissing. "I'm in love with an angel."
— Lauren Kate (Fallen)

"The only way to survive eternity is to be able to appreciate each moment."
— Lauren Kate (Fallen)

"Trust is a careless pursuit at best. At worst, it's a good way to get yourself killed."

Love is a temporary madness; it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of eternal passion. That is just being in love, which any fool can do. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Those that truly love have roots that grow towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossoms have fallen from their branches, they find that they are one tree and not two.

"We are never more open to seeing the world and ourselves in a new light than when we are in crisis."

When a person cannot answer directly to your question probably the answer is too painful for you to know or too hard for them to admit.

"Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8 color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64 color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64 color box, though I've got a few missing. It's okay though, because I've got some more vibrant colors like periwinkle at my disposal. I have a bit of a problem though in that I can only meet the 8 color boxes. Does anyone else have that problem? I mean there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation. So when I meet someone who's an 8 color type...I'm like, hey girl, Magenta! and she's like, oh, you mean purple! and she goes off on her purple thing, and I'm like, no I want Magenta!"
— John Mayer

"Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."
— Mother Teresa