There is no safe investment.
To love at all is to be vulnerable.
Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken.
If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one,
not even to 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.
The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation.
The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.

The Four Leaves ~ C.S. Lewis

Life for me, was like playing Beethoven's Fifth, with fingernails on a blackboard.

Julien Janvier ~ Jeux d'enfants

The rules of the game hadn't changed.
What was called teasing as kids might now be called perversion.
And what is perversion?
It's a matter of taste, like Chinese food.
You like it, or you don't.
Only if you're Chinese, you've got no choice.

Julien Janvier ~ Jeux d'enfants

Friends are like spectacles.
They make you look smart, but then they get scratched and start to bore you.
Luckily, sometimes, you get super cool ones.
Like me! I've got Sophie!

Julien Janvier ~ Jeux d'enfants

I like Jacks, and Monopoly - but only when I'm the banker.
I love marbles, I always win.
Snake and ladders is dumb.
But still less dumber than checkers, Rubik's cube and puzzle blocks.
Riddles, they aren't my thing.
Simon says, kickball, hopscotch - they're okay.
Tag's all right, but that's about it.
But there's one game you must never play.
And I mean never!
Even if your best friend wants you to.
And that's burying yourself in a block of cement!

Julien Janvier, opening narration ~ Jeux d'enfants

monologue

It will all turn into ash someday, cigarettes, me, and that town
Beginnings are always from a single tiny ember
Reflected on the rectangular screen, is a boy lamenting at the sky
If you press the next button, stars falling from the night sky; a kiss scene... kiss scene

Conventional everyday comes and greets me every morning
Trade in polite words with an appropriate attitude
A yearning for someday remains eternally as a yearning
If I write today’s events on paper, it seems it can be settled in around 2 lines

Even if I shout, there’s no such thing as a place for it to resound
Only to surpass, today too, after all, just to pass through
Footprints are buried and covered underneath others
Because I wanted some sense of meaning, I crash into the shoulder and spit out

Tightening my fists, I’m fighting
If it’s pain, the greater the better
Even I will be acknowledged, by the man in front of my eyes
It’s all adding up, I myself, as I am, now

What are you searching for? A place where you can feel at ease?
What are you seeking? Is it somebody’s approval?
What are the things you’ve achieved? A second of supremacy?
What have you lost? While on your quest for answers

Even if I shout, there’s no such thing as a place for it to resound
Only to surpass, today too, after all, just to pass through
Footprints are buried and covered underneath others
Because I wanted some sense of meaning, I grab the hand and steal a kiss

With gentle words, I’m embracing
If it’s power, the greater the better
Even I will be acknowledged, by the woman in front of my eyes
It’s all adding up, I myself, as I am, now

Tightening my fists, I’m fighting

With gentle words, I’m embracing

~ Nishikido Ryo [８UPPERS、関ジャニ∞]

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.
Impossible is not a fact.
It's an opinion.
Impossible is not a declaration.
It's a dare.
Impossible is potential.
Impossible is temporary.
Impossible is Nothing!

~ Muhammad Ali

'Young man,' said Gladys, 'is everyone in your world like you?'

'No,' he said. 'Most of them are taller.'

'I meant,' said Gladys, 'are they all so immoral - or do I mean amoral?'

'Well,' Tod said, 'my father's like me, and my uncle's viler. But my cousin and at least two of my brothers-in-law are quite saintly really. Why?'

'Because,' she said, 'I expect to fit in quite well.

A Sudden Wild Magic ~ Diana Wynne Jones

This was another thing about Zillah that irritated Tod. She was so plumb ignorant of magework. It was almost as if she refused to learn on purpose, and possibly encouraged Marcus to make a noise so that she could leave. He allowed that this was partly due to the lack of confidence - someone, way back in Zillah's history, has evidently sapped her confidence pretty badly - but he also suspected that it was due to arrogance. In some secret place in her mind, Zillah felt that she has no need to learn.

A Sudden Wild Magic ~ Diana Wynne Jones

Is this drink toffee or kea, or neither?

Roz, A Sudden Wild Magic ~ Diana Wynne Jones

He had tried to conjecture why in hellspoke's name the law required him to come to this armpit of the universe. It was a very archaic law. The only modern justification that he had been able to come up with was that all this adversity was supposed to toughen his soul. To Tod's mind you did not make a soul tough by walking all over it: you just made dents.

A Sudden Wild Magic ~ Diana Wynne Jones

The Santa that showed up at my Kindergarden Christmas festival? I knew he was fake. And I never saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus, either. But I have to say, even as a little kid I knew better to believe in some old man who worked only one day a year.

Kyon ~ The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi

I have absolutely no interest in normal humans.

Haruhi ~ The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi

Feelings of love are just a temporary lapse in judgment. Like a mental illness.

Haruhi ~ The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi

Nobody controls his own life, Ender.
The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you.

Valentine, Ender's Game ~ Orson Scott Card

Everyone thinks Hitler got to power because of his armies, because they were willing to kill, and that's partly true, because in the real world power is always build on the threat of death and dishonor. But mostly he got to power on words, on the right words at the right time.

Peter, Ender's Game ~ Orson Scott Card

Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.

Valentine, Ender's Game ~ Orson Scott Card

I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.

Ender, Ender's Game ~ Orson Scott Card

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him,
then in that very moment I also love him.
I think it’s impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe,
and not love them the way they love themselves.
And then, in that very moment when I love them - ...I destroy them.
I make it impossible for them to ever hurt me again.
I grind them and grind them until they don’t exist.

Ender, Ender's Game ~ Orson Scott Card

He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer ~ Patrick Süskind

Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer ~ Patrick Süskind

He possessed the power. He held it in his hand. A power stronger than the power of money or the power of terror or the power of death: the invincible power to command the love of mankind. There was only one thing that power could not do: it could not make him able to smell himself.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer ~ Patrick Süskind

We are familiar with people who seek out solitude: penitents, failures, saints, or prophets. They retreat to deserts, preferably, where they live on locusts and honey. Others, however, live in caves or cells on remote islands; some-more spectacularly-squat in cages mounted high atop poles swaying in the breeze. They do this to be nearer God. Their solitude is a self-mortification by which they do penance. They act in the belief that they are living a life pleasing to God. Or they wait months, years, for their solitude to be broken by some divine message that they hope then speedily to broadcast among mankind.

Grenouille's case was nothing of the sort. There was not the least notion of God in his head. He was not doing penance or waiting for some supernatural inspiration. He had withdrawn solely for his own pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he basked in his own existence and found it splendid. He lay in his stony crypt like his own corpse, hardly breathing, his heart hardly beating-and yet lived as intensively and dissolutely as ever a rake lived in the wide world outside.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer ~ Patrick Süskind

He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer ~ Patrick Süskind

Fellow glee clubbers, it would be an honor to show you how a real storm out is done. 
I encourage you to follow my lead.

Rachel ~ Season 1, Glee

Sway

I talk to you as to a friend
I hope that’s what you’ve come to be
It feels as though we’ve made amends
Like we found a way eventually

It was you who picked the pieces up
When I was a broken soul
And then glued me back together
Returned to me what others stole

I don’t wanna hurt you
I don’t wanna make you sway
Like I know I’ve done before
I will not do it anymore
I’ve always been a dreamer
I've had my head among the clouds
Now that I’m coming down
Won’t you be my solid ground?

I look at you and see a friend
I hope that’s what you wanna be
Are we back now where it all began?
Have you finally forgiven me?

You gathered my dreams in
When they all blew away
And then tricked them back into me
You saved me I was almost dead

I don’t wanna hurt you
I don’t wanna make you sway
Like I know I’ve done before
I will not do it anymore
I’ve always been a dreamer
I've had my head among the clouds
Now that I’m coming down
Won’t you be my solid ground?

I don’t wanna hurt you
Like I know I’ve done before
I will not do it anymore...

I don’t wanna hurt you
I don’t wanna make you sway
Like I know I’ve done before
I will not do it anymore
I’ve always been a dreamer
I've had my head among the clouds
Now that I’m coming down
Won’t you be my solid ground?

~ The Perishers [Let There Be Morning]

Bod said, 'I want to see life. I want to hold it in my hands. I want to leave a footprint on the sand of a desert island. I want to play football with people. I want,' he said, and then he paused and he thought. 'I want everything.

The Graveyard Book ~ Neil Gaiman

Silas said, 'Out there, the man who killed your family is, I believe, still looking for you, still intends to kill you.'
Bod shrugged. 'So?' he said. 'It's only death. I mean, all of my best friends are dead.'
'Yes.' Silas hesitated. 'They are. And they are for the most part, done with the world. You are not. You're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you're dead, it's gone. Over. You've made what you've made, dreamed your dream, written your name. You may be buried here, you may even walk. But that potential is finished.'

The Graveyard Book ~ Neil Gaiman

Bod shivered. He wanted to embrace his guardian, to hold him and tell him he would never desert him, but the action was unthinkable. He could no more hug Silas then he could hold a moonbeam, not because his guardian was insubstantial, but because it would be wrong. There were people you could hug and then there was Silas.

The Graveyard Book ~ Neil Gaiman

You are not Fading. You are obvious, boy. You are difficult to miss. If you came to me in company with a purple lion, a green elephant, and a scarlet unicorn astride which was the King of England in his Royal Robes, I do believe that it is you and you alone that people would stare at, dismissing the others as minor irrelevancies.

The Graveyard Book ~ Neil Gaiman

‘There are always people who find their lives have become so unsupportable they believe the best thing they could do would be to hasten their transition to another plan of existence.'
'They kill themselves, you mean?' said Bod. He was about eight years old, wide-eyed and inquisitive, and he was not stupid.
'Indeed.'
'Does it work? Are they happier dead?'
'Sometimes. Mostly, no. It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.'

The Graveyard Book ~ Neil Gaiman

'Name the different kinds of people.' said Miss Lupescu. 'Now.'
Bod thought for a moment. 'The living,' he said. 'Er. The dead.' He stopped. Then, '...Cats?' he offered uncertainly.

The Graveyard Book ~ Neil Gaiman

'Now here is my secret. It is very simple. It is only with one's heart that one can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.'

'What is essential is invisible to the eye,' the little prince repeated, so as to be sure to remember.

Le Petit Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

'Where are the men?' said the little prince, at least, resuming the conversation.

'One feels rather lonely in the desert.'

'It is just as lonely among men,' said the snake.

Le Petit Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

'What does "admire: mean?'

'To admire means that you consider me the handsomest, the best dressed, the richest and the most intelligent man on this planet.'

'But you are all alone on your planet!'

'Do me this kindness. Admire me all the same!'

'I admire you,' said the little prince with a slight shrug of his shoulders, 'but why should that mean so much to you?'

Le Petit Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

'If I were to order a general to fly from one flower to another like a butterfly, or to write a tragedy, or to change himself into a sea-bird, and if the general did not carry out the order, which one of us would be at fault?'

'It would be you,' said the little prince firmly.

'Exactly. One must demand of each and every one what he or she is capable of. Authority is first and foremost based on reason. If you order your people to throw themselves into the sea, you will have a revolution on your hands. I have a right to demand obedience because my orders are reasonable ones.

Le Petit Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

'I know of a planet where there is a red-faced gentleman. He has never smelled a flower. He has never looked at a star. He has never loved anybody. He has spent all his time adding up figures. And, all day, he keeps on repeating, like you: "I'm busy with serious matters. I'm busy with serious matters," over and over again. And he swells up with pride. But he is not a man, he is a mushroom.'

Le Petit Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Grown-ups love figures. When you talk to them about a new friend, they never ask questions about essential matters. They never say to you: 'What does his voice sound like? What games does he prefer? Does he collect butterflies?' They ask you: 'How old is he? How many brothers does he have? How much does he weigh? How much does his father earn? It is only then that they feel they know him.

Le Petit Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

I have spent a lot of time with grown-ups. I have seen them at very close quarters which I'm afraid has not greatly enhanced my opinion of them.

Le Petit Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Foster: We're not all hiding something.
Lightman: Okay...
Foster: You think I'm naive just because I don't share your twisted view of the world.
Lightman: That! And you read romance novels.
Foster: Yes, I do. Because they make me happy. A pursuit I highly recommend to you.
Lightman: Truth or happiness, never both.

Lie to me*

Lightman: You know I wanted to, uh—
Torres: Yeah, I know.
Lightman: What?
Torres: You had a slight...gratitude smile.
Lightman: ...
Torres: What, you surprised, really?! You know, just because I don’t know your science, doesn’t mean I don’t know things.
Lightman: You know, when you don’t know the science, you don’t see the whole picture, people
can get hurt.
Torres: What was that, what happened?
Lightman: What?
Torres: When you said ‘people can get hurt’ you showed shame.
Lightman: I don’t know what you’re talking about.
Torres: You’re lying.
Lightman: Get used to it.

Lie to me*

Cheshire Cat: Who are you?
Alice: I'm Alice.
Cheshire Cat: THE Alice?
Alice: There's some dispute about that.

Alice in Wonderland (2010)

Do you know what that is? You don't right?
That's a list of songs I have composed on the them of if I was going to have a concert for the girl I like.
Those are the poems I have written for her sake.
MDs I'd play if I was to go on a drive with her.
Of course, I don't have a driver's liscense yet.
With that, I have all the patterns for a date covered.
Hows that? Pretty creepy, right?
I don't have the courage to confess to her, so I can only prepare for and fantasize on what it'd be like.
Of course, it's pathetic, but even so, I don't think it's shameful!

Ryuuji ~ Toradora!

Taiga: Since you have seen it, I cannot keep on living. Can do nothing but die!

Ryuuji: Then don't try to kill me!

Taiga: Since I don't want to die, I have no choice but to kill you!

Toradora

In this world, there is something that not a single person has seen.Its something that's gentle and extremely sweet.
Perhaps, if it was seen, whoever sees it would have wanted it.
That's exactly why the world has hidden it.So that it cannot be owned that easily.
But someday, someone will find it.
The single person who is to own it, will properly find it.
That is how it is.

Toradora!

I thought about it. “Sometimes I think that truth is a place. In my mind, it is like a city: there can be a hundred roads, a thousand paths, that will all take you, eventually, to the same place. It does not matter where you come from. If you walk toward the truth, you will reach it, whatever path you take.”

Calum MacInnes looked down at me and said nothing. Then, “You are wrong. The truth is a cave in the black mountains. There is one way there, and one only, and that way is treacherous and hard, and if you choose the wrong path you will die alone, on the mountainside.”

The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains ~ Neil Gaiman

Planet Caravan

We sail through endless skies

Stars shine like eyes

The black night sighs

The moon in silver trees

Falls down in tears

Light of the night

The earth, a purple blaze

Of sapphire haze

In orbit always

While down below the trees

Bathed in cool breeze

Silver starlight breaks down the night

And so we pass on by the crimson eye

Of great god Mars

As we travel the universe

~ Black Sabbath

Friends O' Mine

Well it was ugly but we made it this far

Some have gone but I forget who they are

Now the hangovers are worse but we get through them fine

Sleeping late but we're not lazy

Getting older but we're still crazy

I’m so glad that I have these friends o' mine

It started out at a coffee shop in a most unlikely town

And there were casualties but we made it out anyhow

We stuck together through the good and bad times

Pulp Fiction, Blazing Saddles, and Fast Times

I’m so glad that I have these friends o' mine

And jobs, girls and obstacles did all but break us down

Night clubs and broken vans in every major town

And I’ve got your back, you’ve got mine

Like Johnny Cash said “I walk the line”

And you can always count on me for one last beer

We saw the world and the world seemed smaller

We're getting wider but not getting no taller

I know we’ve grown up just a little lot of time

We're sleeping late but we're not lazy

We're getting older but we're still crazy

I’m so glad that I have these friends o' mine

So glad that I have these friends o' mine

So glad that I have these friends o' mine

 ~ Bowling For Soup

Late Fragment

And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.

~Raymond Carver

Although the sword has no blade
It can still kill people if you intend to
Killing people is not up to the weapons
It's up to the human heart

Kong He (monk) ~ Iljimae

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,

Black as the pit from pole to pole,

I thank whatever gods may be

For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance

I have not winced nor cried aloud.

Under the bludgeonings of chance

My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears

Looms but the Horror of the shade,

And yet the menace of the years

Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,

How charged with punishments the scroll,

I am the master of my fate:

I am the captain of my soul.

~ William Ernest Henley

Hesther: I mean he's in pain, Martin. He's been in pain for most of his life. That much, at least, you know.
Dysart: Possibly.
Hesther: Possibly?!... That cut-off figure you just described must have been in pain for years.
Dysart: (doggedly) Possibly.
Hesther: And you can take it away.
Dysart: Still - possibly.
Hesther: Then that's surely enough. That simply has to be enough for you, surely?
Dysart: No!
Hesther: Why not?
Dysart: Because it's his.
Hesther: I don't understand.
Dysart: His pain. His own. He made it. 

(a pause, then earnestly) 

Look... to go through life and call it yours - your life - you first have to get your own pain. 

Pain that's unique to you.

You can't just dip into the common bin and say 'That's enough!'... He's done that.

All right, he's sick. He's full of misery and fear.

He was dangerous, and could be again, though I doubt it.

But that boy has known a passion more ferocious than I have felt in any second of my life, and let me tell you something: I envy it.
Hesther: You can't.
Dysart: (vehemently) Don't you see? That's the Accusation! 

That's what his stare has been saying to me all this time. 'At least I galloped! When did you?'

...  (simply) I'm jealous, Hesther. Jealous of Alan Strang.

Equus ~ Peter Shaffer

Dysart: (quietly) Can you think of anything worse one can do to anybody than take away their worship?

Hesther: Worship?

Dysart: Yes, that word again!

Hesther: Aren't you being a little extreme?

Dysart: Extremity's the point.

Hether: Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that.

Dysart: I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? 

Think about him. He can hardly read.

He knows no physics or engineering to make the world real for him.

No paintings to show him how others have enjoyed it. 

No music except television jingles. No history except tales from a desperate mother. 

No friends. Not one kid to give him a joke, or make him know himself more moderately. 

He's a modern citizen for whom society doesn't exist.

He lives one hour every three weeks - howling in a mist. 

And after the service kneels to a slave who stands over him obviously and unthrowably his master. 

With my body I thee worship!... Many men have less vital relationships with their wives.

Equus ~ Peter Shaffer

The Normal is the indispensable, murderous God of Health, and I am his Priest. My tools are very delicate. My compassion is honest. I have honestly assisted children in this room. I have talked away terrors and relieved many agonies. But also - beyond question - I have cut from them parts of individuality repugnant to this God, in both aspects. Parts sacred to rarer and more wonderful Gods. And at what length... sacrifices to Zeus took at the most, surely, sixty seconds each. Sacrifices to the Normal can take as long as sixty months.

Dysart, Equus ~ Peter Shaffer

The Normal is the good smile in a child's eyes - all right.
It is also the dead stare in a million adults.
It both sustains and kills - like a God.
It is the Ordinary made beautiful: it is also the Average made lethal.

Dysart, Equus ~ Peter Shaffer

Tragedy obviously does not lie in a conflict of Right and Wrong, but in a collision between two different kinds of Right.

Peter Shaffer about Equus

Why didn't they have mobile phones in the 1920s? Think how many misunderstandings in the world could have been avoided. Archduke Ferdinand could have texted his people - I think a weirdo's following me - and he wouldn't have got assassinated. World War I wouldn't have happened.

Lara, Twenties Girl ~ Sophie Kinsella

It's not enough to believe!

Don't you see that, you stupid girl?

You could spend your whole life hoping and believing!

If a love affair is one-sided, then it's only ever a question, never an answer.

You can't live your life waiting for an answer.

Sadie, Twenties Girl ~ Sophie Kinsella

Boys treat thinking like sex. they think it takes twenty minutes and then you're done and there's no point talking about it. They have no idea.

Lara, Twenties Girl ~ Sophie Kinsella

Darling, when things go wrong in life, you lift your chin, put on a ravishing smile, mix yourself a little cocktail - and out you go.

Sadie, Twenties Girl ~ Sophie Kinsella

Domyouji: Makino, you're going to be like this, right?

Once we get married, you'll get fat really quick.

If this pattern continues, you definitely won't have the same face you have now.

Makino: You're probably right.

If I lived a life of luxury, I'd get fat in no time.

What are you going to do if that happens?

Domyouji: What am I going to do?

*blaank*

Well, even if you a horribly fat, Makino will still be Makino.

Makino: Eh?

Domyouji: To me, it doesn't matter even if you're fat or ugly.

Because I've fallen in love with your very existence.

Makino: *happy*

Domyouji: If it wasn't so, someone like me wouldn't even think of marrying someone as ugly as you.

Makino: Ugly.. Ugly...After all, you think  I'm ugly.

Domyouji: There's no way I'd think that! 

In my opinion, without a doubt, hands down, you're the best. You're the best in the entire world.

Makino: What is the best in the world?

Domyouji: Anything and EVERYTHING.

Hana Yori Dango ~ Movie (2008)

Young Melanie: What do you want to be married to me for, anyhow?

Young Jake: So I can kiss you anytime I want.

Sweet Home Alabama

'Fina, back at Silver Pines they have all kinds of things for old people to do. 

There is golf, there is Ping-Pong, writing classes, costume parties, putting on plays... You can even learn to do karate and give massages if you want. 

But this is the first time in a very long while I am able to be. 

Sit and think about nothing all day. Smell flowers I never smelled in all my life. 

Tell stories to that little girl in the water, or go drinking and dancing with the hairy people, those funny smelling ones. 

Nothing to explain to anyone.

When you are old like me, 'Fina, you will understand what a good thing it is to have nothing to explain.

Abuelita, The Unicorn Sonata ~ Peter S.Beagle

Fireflies

You would not believe your eyes
If ten-million fireflies
Lit up the world
As I fell asleep

Cause they fill the open air
And leave teardrops everywhere
You'd think me rude
But I would just stand and stare

I'd like to make myself believe
That planet earth turns slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake
when I'm asleep
Cause everything is never as it seems

Cause I'd get a thousand hugs
From ten-thousand lightning bugs
As they try to teach me how to dance

A foxtrot above my head
A sock hop beneath my bed
A disco ball is just hanging by a thread

I'd like to make myself believe
That planet earth turns slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake
when I'm asleep
Cause everything is never as it seems
(When I fall asleep)

Leave my door open just a crack
(Please take me away from here)
Cause I feel like such an insomniac
(Please take me away from here)
Why do I tire of counting sheep
(Please take me away from here)
When I'm far too tired to fall asleep

To ten-million fireflies
I'm weird cause I hate goodbyes
I got misty eyes
As they said farewell
(Farewell)
But I'll know where several are
If my dreams get real bizarre
Cause I saved a few
And I'd keep them in a jar

I'd like to make myself believe
That planet earth turns slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake
When I'm asleep
Cause everything is never as it seems
(When I fall asleep)

I'd like to make myself believe
That planet earth turns slowly
It's hard to say that I'd rather stay awake
when I'm asleep
Cause everything is never as it seems

~Owl City

Seasons had come and gone; presidents in Kabul had been inaugurated and murdered; an empire had been defeated; old wars had ended and new ones had broken out. 

But Mariam had hardly noticed, hardly cared. 

She had passed these years in a distant corner of her mind. 

A dry, barren field, out beyond wish and lament, beyond dream and disillusionment. 

There, the future did not matter. And the past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion. And whenever those twin poisonous flowers began to sprout in the parched land of that field, Mariam uprooted them. 

She uprooted them and ditched them before they took hold.

A Thousand Splendid Suns ~ Khaled Hosseini

Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

A Thousand Splendid Suns ~ Khaled Hosseini

Children aren't coloring books. You don't get to fill them with your favorite colors.

Rahim Khan, The Kite Runner ~ Khaled Hosseini

Nice Guys Finish Last

I was just a kid workin' for the man for the first time

He said "Listen kid, you'd better hear my advice:

Treat 'em like dirt, they'll stick forever to the bottom of your shoe."

Ooooh

I said "Mr. Man, that ain't nice you gotta treat a girl right

Take her out, wine and dine her, always be polite"

"Kid, all good-just do you 

but soon you'll see she don't want no goody two shoes"

Boy, you're just a goody two, goody two shoes

You're just a good two, two shoes!

You got style, you got grace

But kid you try so hard she just laughs in your face

Yeah you're a nice guy with the wrong attitude

She want a bad boy

(bad boys, bad boys, all we want is bad boys!)

I treat her bad, she loves me good

And I just hate to have to tell you

Cause you're a nice guy, but that just won't do

She want a bad boy 

(bad boys, bad boys, all we want is bad boys!)

Listen kid, you hear them sirens comin' for me?

But when I get downtown she will already be

Postin' bail in her favorite dress

Smilin' at me because I'm no good

You can buy her everything she likes and I'm sure she'll be obliged

To let you steal a kiss, maybe even spend the night

Kid, all good-just know that

She'll be thinking of me even when she's with you

Boy, you're just a goody two, goody two shoes

You're just a good two, two shoes!

You got style, you got grace

But kid you try so hard she just laughs in your face

Yeah you're a nice guy with the wrong attitude

She want a bad boy 

(bad boys, bad boys, all we want is bad boys!)

I treat her bad, she loves me good

And I just hate to have to tell you 

Cause you're a nice guy, but that just won't do

She want a bad boys

(bad boys, bad boys,

all we want is bad boys!)

Whoa, alright now

Single ladies (yeah)

I’m gonna need your help now

(Tell us what ya want us to do now

Tell us what ya want us to do now)

I need help your girls

(You’re a bad boy)

I say I need help now (help now)

So bad (so bad)

So good (so good)

So bad (bad)

Good (good) 

God damn, you got style, you got grace

Kid you try so hard she just laughs in your face

Yeah you're a nice guy with the wrong attitude

She want a bad boy

(bad boys, bad boys,

all we want is bad boys!)

I treat her bad, she loves me good

And I just hate to have to tell you

Cause you're a nice guy, but that just won't do

She want a bad boy

(bad boys, bad boys,

all we want is bad boys!)

Boy, you're just a goody two, goody two shoes

You're just a good two, two shoes! 

~ Cobra Starship

Leonard: What did Penny mean, "You'd make a cute couple"?

Sheldon: Well, I assume she meant that the two of you together would constitute a couple that others might consider cute. An alternate, though somewhat less likely interpretation is that you could manufacture one. As in, "Oh, look, Leonard and Leslie made Mr. and Mrs. Goldfarb! Aren't they adorable?"

Leonard: If Penny didn't know that Leslie had already turned me down, then that would unambiguously mean that she, Penny, thought I should ask her, Leslie, out, indicating that she, Penny, had no interest in me asking her, Penny, out; but because she did know that I had asked Leslie out, and that she, Leslie, had turned me down, then she, Penny, could be offering me consolation - "That's too bad, you would have made a cute couple..." - while thinking, "good, Leonard remains available."

Sheldon: You're a lucky man, Leonard.

Leonard: How so?

Sheldon: You're talking to one of the three men in the Western Hemisphere capable of following that train of thought.

Leonard: Well, what do you think?

Sheldon: I said I could follow it, I didn't say I cared.

The Big Bang Theory

Howard: Sheldon, if you were a robot, and I knew and you didn't, would you want me to tell you?

Sheldon: That depends. 

When I learn that I'm a robot, will I be able to handle it?

Howard: Maybe, although the history of science fiction is not on your side.

The Big Bang Theory

It might be something like glass..

..because one wouldn’t notice it normally.

However, it is actually there.

As proof, if you change the angle you look at it,

The glass will reflect light.

It will state its presence and existence more eloquently than any other thing in this world.

Even if it’s tainted by sadness,

It still possesses a transparent, glass colour.

It’s still there, for you, for me, for everyone.

[On Happiness] Lelouch ~ Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion

Tsunaida Te

Even if we part and meet again,
I want to meet at this place
Then we'll hold hands to ensure
we'll never be separated again

We used to talk all night until
the sun rose
And held hands till the sun
went under the horizon
Let's walk together like this forever
like light and shadow

I stand in the city,staring off
into space with lonely eyes
I can't find warmth on my own
by meeting you, I realized
how much strength love could give me

Even if we part and meet again,
I want to meet at this place
Then we'll hold hands to ensure
we'll never be separated again.

I can't sleep by myself,'cause
I can't dream without you
so take me to a place where
uncertainty can't reach us
And let us bring light to the
night sky with no stars

So long as you're with me, I can go
to world's end
Even if it's a path I can't walk on
my own
if you're by my side, I can walk it
while humming a tune
if we're together,the world is mine

if we can't meet
I will miss all the happiness
I'm so worried when he hugged me
tightly
it seems I will lose the sight of
tomorrow in the crowds
love is so painful
I forgot the art which glossed over
loneliness

Every time we went we held out hands together
we will walk together on this road
if I think of a dream that no one
ever thought of
I will make this dream come true
only with you
with happiness

while we are arguing on Saturday
I don't want to lose you
I feel something powerful get into
my body and the love getting warm
NO MORE CRY
something shines on my jean's pocket
it's a call from you but I ignore it
there's something in me already calm
maybe I will remain calm if you were here...
there is something missing and it makes me scared
I want to meet that "important person"
I will think about losing to someone
I hate this town so much

I want to hold your hand
I pretend to be tough but I can't
so unreasonable...can I cry?
autumn seasons will come soon

Even if we part and meet again,
I want to meet at this place
Then we'll hold hands to ensure
we'll never be separated again.

I can't sleep by myself,'cause
I can't dream without you
so take me to a place where
uncertainty can't reach us
if I think of a dream that no one
ever thought of
I will make this dream come true
only with you
with happiness

~Lil'B

Golden Time Lover

Can’t focus. My body is still puzzled about what to do.
I’m trembling. I can’t stop even if I try to control myself.
Although neither the sun nor the moon are on my side,
“I’ve no choice but to try,” Those were the words I muttered to myself.

The odds aren’t on my side,but running away would be gutless.
Even if I can’t see the future, I’ll just have to win it over with courage.
Need to keep distance from the target as I hold myself back.
All that’s needed for victory is the pride to win.

Will we celebrate with the wine of victory or will we end up kissing their feet in defeat?
There are two outcomes in everything. I want to control destiny.

A brilliant GOLDEN TIME, I’ll grab it with these hands
A forced POKER FACE and I’m ready to begin
Drag me into that world of ILLUSION

A PRESSURE GAME with no limits, I just slip through it
in order to jump over that halogen BORDER LINE
HOW MANY? What’s the price I need to pay?
Which is it that you’d rather not sacrifice?

Proof is stronger than an argument, and basically you win if you produce the results
Silence is forbidden and it’ll all be revealed as time goes by
Sharpening my senses, and reading the flow meticulously

It’s GAME SENSE to decipher the percentage of my winning chances
Is that silhouette the Devil?
If it’s a man then act like one and face your defeat with grace

CLAP YOUR HANDS in adversity, shake the ground
A brand new FIGHTING STYLE, aim for the barely possible
ATTENTION It’s dangerous, exceed all limits

An awesome FAIRY TALE, etch it into history
so that you can show off the perfect victory
ARE YOU READY? Throw away those fogged doubts
Climb those babel stairs

A smile like that of a Goddess
I’m possessed by your charm
You invite me deeper as I fall

A greed that has taken over my heart, and a dream that won’t stop growing
No one can stop me

A brilliant GOLDEN TIME, I’ll grab it with these hands
A forced POKER FACE and I’m ready to begin
Drag me into that world of ILLUSION

A PRESSURE GAME with no limits, I just slip through it
in order to jump over that halogen BORDER LINE
HOW MANY? What’s the price I need to pay?

CLAP YOUR HANDS in adversity, shake the ground
A brand new FIGHTING STYLE, aim for the barely possible
ATTENTION It’s dangerous, exceed all limits

An awesome FAIRY TALE, etch it into history
An astounding turn of events, make it a worthy victory
DO YOU KNOW? Destiny is meant to be snatched away
Bask in the glory of the sunlight atop the babel tower

~Sukima Switch