“We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us.”— Patricia Hampl, amazon.com
“We wish to talk to each other about life and death, about love, despair, loss, and innocence. We sense that in order to live together we must learn to speak of peace, of history, of meaning and values. The big words.”— Patricia Hampl, amazon.com
“Listen, we are human beings. Listen, we are inclined to love. Love is there, but we need to be taught how. We want to stand upright, we want to walk, but someone needs to hold our hand and balance us a bit, and guide us a bit, and scoop us up when we fall. Listen, we fall. Love is there but we have…”— Jeanette Winterson, amazon.com
“Every sentence is a wispy net, capturing a few flecks of meaning. The sun shines without vocabulary. The salmon has no name for the urge that drives it upstream. The newborn groping for the nipple knows hunger long before it knows a single word. Even with an entire dictionary in one's head, one even…”— Scott Russell Sanders, amazon.com
“What memory is made of I cannot say; my body, at least, is made of atoms on loan from the earth. How implausible, that these atoms should have gathered to form this I, this envelope of skin that walks about.”— Scott Russell Sanders, amazon.com
“Why was it, she asked herself, that "animals can sometimes subdue their predatory ways in only a few months, while humans, despite centuries of refinement, can quickly grow more savage than any beast"?”— Diane Ackerman, amazon.com
“Promises within the air Drowning in love affair The night is young and we are young Run into the bright lights most nights, now or never.”— The Chainsmokers, open.spotify.com
“Bottled up in adolescence Bottom up forbidden essence Twisted up in adolescence Waking up within your arms I feel alive and dangerous You're dangerous, we're dangerous.”— The Chainsmokers, open.spotify.com
“Caught, we were caught up in the high, it was better than drugs. Too high to see that it would all lead to destruction.”— The Chainsmokers, open.spotify.com
“We both know I go too far like when I wrecked your car And almost fought your father when he pushed me in the yard And all those nights we snuck out, like to meet up at the bar Don't worry, my love, we're learning to love But it's hard when you're young.”— The Chainsmokers, open.spotify.com
“I don't need cars, I don't need clothes, forget that money 'Cause if I go home all on my own, it ain't worth nothing.”— The Chainsmokers, open.spotify.com
“Will you still care in the morning? When the magic's gone, gone, oh? And will you be there in the morning? Do you stay when it all goes? Or will I wake up alone?”— The Chainsmokers, open.spotify.com
“Now I got cars, now I got clothes, now I got money Now I got crowds screamin' my name sayin' they love me You got real close, say I'm not alone, you understand me But late at night, when I close my eyes, the quiet scares me.”— The Chainsmokers, open.spotify.com
“It's 6 a.m., I'm so far away from you I don't wanna let you down, what am I supposed to do?”— The Chainsmokers, open.spotify.com
“And I'm not gonna tell you that I'm over it 'Cause I think about it every night I'm not sober, and I know I keep these feelings to myself Like I don't need nobody else But you're not the only one on my mind.”— The Chainsmokers, open.spotify.com
“It's 5 a.m. and I'm on the radio I'm supposed to call you, but I don't know what to say at all And there's this girl, she wants me to take her home She don't really love me though, I'm just on the radio.”— The Chainsmokers, open.spotify.com
“We breathe in the air of this small town On our own, cuttin' class for the thrill of it Getting drunk on the past, we were livin' in.”— The Chainsmokers, open.spotify.com
“If we go down then we go down together They'll say you could do anything They'll say that I was clever.”— The Chainsmokers, open.spotify.com