Macropsalis > Macropsalis 's Quotes

“My dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.
Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.
For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
~ Falsely yours”
― Kinky Friedman

“Secrets have power so long as they remain secrets”
― Steven Erikson, House of Chains

“Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”
― Robert Frost

“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
― Charles Bukowski

“There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Words that come from the heart are never spoken, they get caught in the throat and can only be read in ones's eyes.”
― José Saramago

“Unable to perceive the shape of You,
I find You all around me.
Your presence fills my eyes with Your love,
It humbles my heart,
For You are everywhere.”
― Hakim Sanai

“ROSE: I love you, Jack.

JACK: No...don’t say your goodbyes, Rose. Don’t you give up. Don’t do it.

ROSE: I’m so cold.

JACK: You’re going to get out of this...you’re going to go on and you’re going to make babies and watch them grow and you’re going to die an old lady, warm in your bed. Not here...Not this night. Do you understand me?

ROSE: I can’t feel my body.

JACK: Rose, listen to me. Winning that ticket was the best thing that ever happened to me. It brought me to you. And I’m thankful, Rose. I’m thankful. You must do me this honor...promise me you will survive....that you will never give up...not matter what happens...no matter how hopeless...promise me now, and never let go of that promise.

ROSE: I promise.

JACK: Never let go.

ROSE: I promise. I will never let go, Jack. I’ll never let go.”
― James Cameron, " Titanic " Script Book

“Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds… true love?”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“The world seems full of good men, even if there are monsters in it.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“I have crossed oceans of time to find you.”
― James V. Hart, Bram Stoker's Dracula

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”
― Tom Robbins

“The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.”
― Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume

“There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.”
― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

“We are all searching for someone whose demons play well with ours.”
― Heidi R. Kling

“Close some doors today. Not because of pride, incapacity, or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere.”
― Paulo Coelho

“Only those who dare may fly”
― Luis Sepúlveda, The Story of a Seagull and the Cat Who Taught Her to Fly

“Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.”
― Stephen King, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Don't trust anybody who'd rather be grammatically correct than have a good time.”
― Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All

“You should date a girl who reads.
Date a girl who reads. Date a girl who spends her money on books instead of clothes, who has problems with closet space because she has too many books. Date a girl who has a list of books she wants to read, who has had a library card since she was twelve.

Find a girl who reads. You’ll know that she does because she will always have an unread book in her bag. She’s the one lovingly looking over the shelves in the bookstore, the one who quietly cries out when she has found the book she wants. You see that weird chick sniffing the pages of an old book in a secondhand book shop? That’s the reader. They can never resist smelling the pages, especially when they are yellow and worn.

She’s the girl reading while waiting in that coffee shop down the street. If you take a peek at her mug, the non-dairy creamer is floating on top because she’s kind of engrossed already. Lost in a world of the author’s making. Sit down. She might give you a glare, as most girls who read do not like to be interrupted. Ask her if she likes the book.

Buy her another cup of coffee.

Let her know what you really think of Murakami. See if she got through the first chapter of Fellowship. Understand that if she says she understood James Joyce’s Ulysses she’s just saying that to sound intelligent. Ask her if she loves Alice or she would like to be Alice.

It’s easy to date a girl who reads. Give her books for her birthday, for Christmas, for anniversaries. Give her the gift of words, in poetry and in song. Give her Neruda, Pound, Sexton, Cummings. Let her know that you understand that words are love. Understand that she knows the difference between books and reality but by god, she’s going to try to make her life a little like her favorite book. It will never be your fault if she does.

She has to give it a shot somehow.

Lie to her. If she understands syntax, she will understand your need to lie. Behind words are other things: motivation, value, nuance, dialogue. It will not be the end of the world.

Fail her. Because a girl who reads knows that failure always leads up to the climax. Because girls who read understand that all things must come to end, but that you can always write a sequel. That you can begin again and again and still be the hero. That life is meant to have a villain or two.

Why be frightened of everything that you are not? Girls who read understand that people, like characters, develop. Except in the Twilight series.

If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are.

You will propose on a hot air balloon. Or during a rock concert. Or very casually next time she’s sick. Over Skype.

You will smile so hard you will wonder why your heart hasn’t burst and bled out all over your chest yet. You will write the story of your lives, have kids with strange names and even stranger tastes. She will introduce your children to the Cat in the Hat and Aslan, maybe in the same day. You will walk the winters of your old age together and she will recite Keats under her breath while you shake the snow off your boots.

Date a girl who reads because you deserve it. You deserve a girl who can give you the most colorful life imaginable. If you can only give her monotony, and stale hours and half-baked proposals, then you’re better off alone. If you want the world and the worlds beyond it, date a girl who reads.

Or better yet, date a girl who writes.”
― Rosemarie Urquico

“-Μίλα!
-Μίλα! Γιατί δε μιλάς;
-Μίλα! Δε με νοιάζει τι θα πεις, μίλα!
-Μίλα! Μίλα!
Πες της...πες της...γιατί δεν της λες ότι κάθε στιγμή μαζί ήταν γιορτή. Επιφάνεια, οι δυο σας μόνοι μέσα στον κόσμο.
Ότι ήταν πιο θαρραλέα, πιο αναλάφρη κι από πουλί, ότι κατέβηκε ορμητική δυο δυο τα σκαλιά σαν ίλιγγος και μέσα από την υγρή πασχαλιά σε οδήγησε στο βασίλειό της, στην άλλη πλευρά, πίσω από τον καθρέφτη.
Πες της, γιατί δεν της λες, ότι όταν ήρθε η νύχτα, άνοιξαν διάπλατα οι πύλες της αγίας τράπεζας, ότι στο σκοτάδι έλαμψε η γύμνια σας, καθώς γείρατε.
Ότι άνοιξες τα μάτια σου και την είδες στο πλάι σου και είπες...Πες της το. Αυτό πρέπει να της το πεις: ευλογήμενη να' σαι.
Κι ότι ήξερες πως η ευλογία σου ήταν θράσος. Ότι κοιμόταν και το χέρι της ήταν ακόμα ζεστό κάτω από τα σκεπάσματα.
Πες της για τα ηλεκτροφόρα σύρματα της κοιλιάς της, ότι βουνά πρόβαλλαν στην ομίχλη, θάλασσες λυσσομανούσαν, ενώ κοιμόταν ακόμα καθισμένη σε θρόνο κι ήταν, θέε μου, δική σου.
Πες της, γιατί δεν της λες ότι όταν ξαπλώνατε μαζί, έσβησαν πόλεις χτισμένες ως εκ θαύματος.
Πουλιά ταξίδευαν στον ίδιο δρόμο.
Ότι ο ουρανός ξετυλιγόταν μπρος στα μάτια σας, ότι τα ψάρια στα ποτάμια κολυμπούσαν αντίδρομα.

Πουλιά ταξίδευαν στο δρόμο μας”
― Arseny Tarkovsky