you have to be careful

You have to be careful telling things.

Some ears are tunnels.

Your words will go in and get lost in the dark.

Some ears are flat pans like the miners used

looking for gold.

What you say will be washed out with the stones.

You look for a long time till you find the right ears.

Till then, there are birds and lamps to be spoken to,

a patient cloth rubbing shine in circles,

and the slow, gradually growing possibility

that when you find such ears

they already know.

Naomi Shihab Nye

we are what we repeatedly do (Aristotle)

winter's coming and you're stuck here

I wanted so badly to lie next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fuck, like in those movies. Not even have sex. Just sleep together, in the most innocent sense of the phrase. But I lacked the courage and she had a boyfriend and I was gawky and she was gorgeous and I was hopelessly boring and she was endlessly fascinating. So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bootom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was dizzle and she was hurricane.

John Green, Looking for Alaska

the point is not to live forever, but to create something that will

Vincent Van Gogh, Coal Barges (1888)

how was I to know you would upset me

                 

For going back to the Beatles is always a good thing to do.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life:

It goes on

- Robert Frost - 

Things to worry about:

Worry about courage

Worry about cleanliness

Worry about efficiency

Worry about horsemanship

Thing not to worry about:

Don't worry about popular opinion

Don't worry about dolls

Don't worry about the past

Don't worry about the future

Don't worry about growing up

Don't worry about anybody getting ahead of you

Don't worry about triumph

Don't worry about failure unless it comes through your own fault

Don't worry about mosquitoes

Don't worry about flies

Don't worry about insects in general

Don't worry about boys

Don't worry about disappointments

Don't worry about pleasures

Don't worry about satisfactions

- F. Scott Fritzgerald, letter to his 11 year old daughter (1933)

you look well on me

Marilyn Monroe and her co-star Adele Jergens 

in "Ladies of he Chorus", 1948

                                                There's an ache

in your absence.

The gnawing void

where your hands should be.

I want you to unravel me

hollow me out

swallow the whole

watch me come apart

at my seams.

Fingernails raking

toes curling

shattered breathing.

Take every piece of me

and remake me.

Shape me anew.

                      I am forever altered                                                      by every breath you take.
                                                                        (EC)

and still you're in my way

I didn't want to kiss you goodbye, that was the trouble;
I wanted to kiss you goodnight. 
And there's a lot of difference. 

Ernest Hemingway

Matisse, Sevilla still life

I'll keep them still

So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. 

And maybe we'll never know most of them.

Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower