#quote compilations

[nextstopwonderland]

Nigel McGuinness and Bryan Danielson talking about one another throughout the years (audio of some of the above Nigel quotes here)

[carfuckerlynch]

[transcript:

1. “here is the game: today you are not going to die.”

2. “whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination.”

3. “i am going to make it through this year if it kills me, i am going to make it it through this year if it kills me.”

4. “you will save yourself. you cannot help it.”

5. “say that it is the impulse of the soul to endure forever. say it again.” /end transcript]

grant howitt/mary oliver/the mountain goats/molly brodak/joyce sutphen

[awkward-sultana]

Portrait of a Lady on Fire / Sarah Ruhl, The Clean House

[nerd-with-a-cause]

“If Moses had seen the way my beloved’s face blushes when he’s drunk, and his beautiful curls and wonderful hands, he would not have written in his Torah, “Do not lie with a man.’”

-Yehuda Alharizi, Sefer Tahkemoni

-Hozier, “Take Me to Church”

-Death Cab for Cutie, “I’ll Follow You Into the Dark”

“I was a-trembling, because I’d got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and then says to myself: ‘All right then, I’ll go to hell’—and tore it up.”

-Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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Quote compilation: Love to the point of heresy.

[bookishquotish]

When Oscar Wilde said, "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation." And when Virginia Woolf said, "I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me." And when Billie Marten said, "But time after time, I've been people I'm not."

[carfuckerlynch]

[transcript: 1. you are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand.

2. hold my hand in yours, and we will not fear what hands like ours can do.

3. we’ll lay here for years or for hours, your hand in my hand, so still and discreet.

4. ME: What if we traded hands?

[pause]

ME: What if I gave you my hands & you gave me your hands?

YOU: What would that accomplish?

ME: We would have each other’s hands.

5. my hands wanted to touch your hands because we had hands.

6. a digital painting of two hands intertwined against a dark background. the hands are red and grow brighter until their fingers glow gold where they’re laced together, palms down on the ground. there are gold stars around their interlocked fingers.

7. here is my hand, he said. here is my hand that will not harm you. /end transcript]

no children— the mountain goats/the epic of gilgamesh— trans. danny p jackson/in a week— hozier/one act play in which not all problems can be solved, & not all problems are problems, but even so, some are— dalton day/in the western night— frank bidart/contact— @campanella/descending figures; epithalamium—louise glück

[awkward-sultana]

Religion, Lana del Rey / Here is Your Altar for Worship, Ashe Vernon / Anatomy of a Hookup, Alex Thomas at Words Dance / Old Word Gods, Ashe Vernon / Profane, Ashe Vernon / You Are Jeff, Richard Siken / Great Goddesses: Life Lessons from Myths & Monsters, Nikita Gill

[carfuckerlynch]

[transcript: 1. come live with me and be my love.

2. “say you’ll stay in boston,” she said. [start italics] you have to know what you want, or you’ll never get it. [end italics] “i’ll stay in boston,” he said.

3. my crane wife arrived at my door in the moonlight. all star bright and tongue tied i took her in. /end transcript]

the passionate shepard to his love— christopher marlowe//mister impossible— maggie stiefvater//the crane wife 2— the decemberists