Life 27...

i feel like the squirrels that so often run in front of our car
& then stand paralyzed in the forward crunch of the tires
i’m torn between the compulsion to run
& the urge to stand still & hope the danger will pass
-Koren Zailckas, Smashed

Because you have to just go with the flow. Your life is not your own, with people coming in and out all the time. You get mellow because you have to -Sarah Dessen

Don't be afraid. Every song has a coda, a final movement. Whether it fades out or crashes away, every song ends. But is that any reason not to enjoy the music?- One Tree Hill

Well, the wind is real, but you can't see the wind. You know, you can only see the leaves rustling in the trees. Pain is real but you can't see pain. You can only see tears. Happiness is real, but you can't see happiness. You can only see the smile on someone's face -7th Heaven

That's the things about needs, sometimes when they're met you realize you just don't need them anymore -Sex & the City

So you want me to tell you something about myself?
I don't have anything to say.
Even if I did, you'd be wrong to believe me.
Trust is a lie - nobody ever knows anyone
-One Tree Hill

Do or do not. There is no try. ~ Yoda

We all honor heroes for different reasons. Sometimes for their bravery, sometimes for their daring, sometimes for their goodness, but mostly we honor heroes because at one point or another we all dream of being rescued. Of course, if the right hero doesn’t come along, sometimes we just have to rescue ourselves.-Desperate Housewives

Like all of a sudden I didn't fit in anywhere. Not at school, not at home... and every time I turned around, another person I'd known forever felt like a stranger to me. Even I felt like a stranger to me. --Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get up in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them

I'm not as good as I advertise
But then again who really is
Judgement is thrown around so easily
But nobody wants to catch it
They just want to side step it
I think I've finally had enough
-Wade Bowen

You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can. ~ Jimmy Carter

Joan: "No, I-- I don't know. I wish it didn't hurt so much."
God: "It hurts because you feel it, Joan, because you're alive. You love people. That generates a lot of power, a lot of energy, same kind of energy that binds atoms together. And we've all seen what happens when you try to pry them apart."
Joan: "So if I don't get attached to people, then it won't hurt so much?"
God: "No, it's in your nature to get attached to people. I put that in the recipe. It's when you guys try to ignore that, when you try to go it alone, that's when it gets ugly. Its hell."
-Joan of Arcadia

though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. -Carl Bard

It was like being drunk, how you so rarely feel drunk enough to do the thing you want to, you still feel pinned back by your own sense of rational or the proper, but the next day, hung over, you realize just how drunk you were. You had a window of opportunity. If you had used it, you probably would have embarrassed yourself, but in not using it, you wasted something irretrievable -Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep

Now we've all grown up, gone on and moved away
Nothing I can do about it, nothing I can say
To bring us back to where we were when life was not this hard
Looking back it all just seems so far, so far away
-Yellowcard

Each in her own way so brave, so determined, and so very desperate. Desperate to venture out, but afraid of what she'll miss when she goes. Desperate to get everything she wants, even when she's not exactly sure of what that is. Desperate for life to be perfect again, although she realizes it never really was. Desperate for a better future, if she can find a way to escape her past. -Desperate Housewives

You know that point in your life when you realize that the house that you grew up in isn't really your home anymore? All of the sudden even though you have some place where you can put your stuff that idea of home is gone.- Garden State

Imperfection is beauty; madness is genius.
And it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. -Marilyn Monroe

Remember, it's only in the black of night you can see the stars and those stars will lead you back home. So don't be afraid to make mistakes, to stumble, fall, cause most of the time the greatest rewards come from doing the things that scare you the most. Maybe you don't get everything you asked for-- maybe you'll get more than you ever could've imagined. Who knows where life will take you. The road is long and in the end the journey is the destination. -One Tree Hill

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