was gonna write something I hand wrote in my paper diary, but my head and tongue hurt too damn bad

so instead i'll quote a line from the song they just played on the radio:

"I want something good to die for,
To make it beautiful to live"


Amen to that.

Because it's been too damn long since I posted any random quotage:

There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
---Victor Hugo

"The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long"


I don't think an explanation is necessary.

"Allow me to be frank at the commencement. You will not like me. The gentlemen will be envious and the ladies will be repelled. You will not like me now and you will like me a good deal less as we go on."

--excerpt from the opening lines of "The Libertine"

Why do I think it works so well? Because of its candor...its total blunt honesty. It's perfect.

I've got a few:

"All men have something to hide. The brighter the picture, the darker the negative."

"When you dance with the devil, the devil don't change. The devil changes you."

"One must have chaos within oneself to give birth to a dancing star."

The one good thing that came of the electricity shut-off debacle was that it gave me time to sit down and read. Don’t laugh, but a while back I picked up a romance novel, and I never got around to reading it. Well last night I had ample time. I stayed up reading it till my flashlight burned out.

I’ve gotta say, the book isn’t what I expected it would be at all. I’d only ever read one other romance novel and it was sooo super cheesy...truly laugh out loud bad. This latest one I’ve got is the total opposite of that. It’s very serious in tone. Very dramatic and angsty. I love it. It’s one of the best pieces of fiction I’ve ever seen. It doesn’t even read like a romance, at least not throughout the first chapter, which is how far I’ve gotten.

Anyway, I came across a great passage, and being the quote whore that I am, I wanted to share it. The setup is that Ian – a bestselling novelist with some major “issues” – got drunk on vodka before getting behind the wheel and crashing his car. Through the narrative it becomes pretty clear that he was trying to kill himself...specifically taking a back road in the hopes that he wouldn’t hurt another person, only himself. Without further ado, here’s the passage:

“Most nights – because nights were when it was the hardest – he could keep a lid on it, he could go on. But tonight the pain had won and all he wanted to do was still it. Make it stop.

But it was still there. The physical pain would go away. This never did, no matter what face he showed to the world.”

Man, I fucking love it. I’m gonna try to read another chapter today.

Tonight's wee hour quotage comes from the episode of "Strangers With Candy" I'm watching on Comedy Central:

"I cried when I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. And then I laughed...REALLY hard."

So very un-PC...I love it. :-P

I just heard the best quote. I feel compelled to post it, because I find it so fitting right now.

Sometimes being a bitch is the only thing a woman has to hold on to.

God, how true indeed.

Today's sporatic quote of the day comes from the one, the only...Iggy Pop!

Iggy Pop says it’s not as easy to feel good as it once was. “To feel good when I was 21, all I had to do was to smoke a joint,” the 59-year-old rock dinosaur tells the March issue of Spin. “Now I have to turn off my phones, do tai chi for an hour, drink a strong cup of coffee, and stay away from bad people, so I can feel good for an hour or two — knowing when it ends, I’m gonna feel like the miserable 59-year old prick that I actually am.”

Bwhahaha!!

I'm so in love with the latest Evanescence song. "Lithum" is awesome. So today's graveyard shift quotage comes from the aforementioned band/song:

Lithium - don't want to lock me up inside
Lithium - don't want to forget how it feels without
Lithium - I want to stay in love with my sorrow
Oh but God, I want to let it go