“…we accept the love we think we deserve.”

“Something really is wrong with me. And I don’t know what it is.”

“”I just don’t want you to worry about me, or think you’ve met me, or waste your time anymore.”"

“I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that. I think wanting that is very morbid, but I want it when I get like this. That’s why I’m trying not to think. I just want it all to stop spinning.”

“I think it was the first time in my life I ever felt like I looked “good”. Do you know what I mean? That nice feeling when you look in the mirror, and your hair’s right for the first time in your life? I don’t think we should base so much on figure and a good hair day, but when it happens, it’s nice. It really is.”

“Things change, people leave, and life doesn’t stop for anyone. ”

“just be yourself”

“I just hope that I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.”

“If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am. And I don’t want them to carry it around inside. I want them to show me, so I can feel it too.”

“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.”

“I would die for you. But I won’t live for you.”

“…And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope they feel it’s enough. I really do because they’ve made me happy. And I’m only one person. ”

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.”

“I am very interested and fascinated how everyone loves each other, but no one really likes each other.”

“I think that if I ever have kids, and they are upset, I won’t tell them that people are starving in China or anything like that because it wouldn’t change the fact that they were upset. And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn’t really change the fact that you have what you have.”

“So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we’ll never know most of them. But even if we don’t have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.”

“Enjoy it. Because it’s happening.”

“t’s strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”

“We didn’t talk about anything heavy or light. We were just there together. And that was enough.”

“It was the kind of kiss that made
me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.”

“and all the books you’ve read have been ready by other people. and all the songs you’ve loved have been heard by other people. and that girl that’s pretty to you is pretty to other people. and you know that if you looked at these facts when you were happy, you would feel great because you are describing “unity.” ”

“And I guess I realized at that moment that I really did love him. Because there was nothing to gain, and that didn’t matter.”

“I wanted to laugh. Or maybe get mad. Or maybe shrug at how strange everyone was, especially me.”

“I feel great! I really mean it. I have to remember this for the next time I’m having a terrible week. Have you ever done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don’t know why. I try to remind myself when I feel great like this that there will be another terrible week coming someday, so I should store up as many great details as I can, so during the next terrible week, I can remember those details and believe that I’ll feel great again. It doesn’t work a lot, but I think it’s very important to try. ”

“Five minutes of a lifetime were truly spent, and we felt young in a good way.”

♦♦ The Perks of Being a Wallflower ♦♦

The words have sent chills down Tally’s spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumor — frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, breathtakingly fast. Ordinary pretties might live their whole lives without meeting a Special. But Tally’s never been ordinary.

And now she’s been turned into one of them: a superamped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid.

The strength, the speed, and the clarity and focus of her thinking feel better than anything Tally can remember. Most of the time. One tiny corner of her heart still remembers something more.

Still, it’s easy to tune that out — until Tally’s offered a chance to stamp out the rebels of the New Smoke permanently. It all comes down to one last choice: listen to that tiny, faint heartbeat, or carry out the mission she’s programmed to complete. Either way, Tally’s world will never be the same

Pretties (Uglies, Book 2)

Gorgeous. Popular. Perfect. Perfectly wrong.
Tally has finally become pretty. Now her looks are beyond perfect, her clothes are awesome, her boyfriend is totally hot, and she’s completely popular. It’s everything she’s ever wanted.

But beneath all the fun — the nonstop parties, the high-tech luxury, the total freedom — is a nagging sense that something’s wrong. Something important. Then a message from Tally’s ugly past arrives. Reading it, Tally remembers what’s wrong with pretty life, and the fun stops cold.
Now she has to choose between fighting to forget what she knows and fighting for her life — because the authorities don’t intend to let anyone with this information survive.

Uglies (Uglies, Book 1)

Playing on every teen’s passionate desire to look as good as everybody else, Scott Westerfeld (Midnighters) projects a future world in which a compulsory operation at sixteen wipes out physical differences and makes everyone pretty by conforming to an ideal standard of beauty. The “New Pretties” are then free to play and party, while the younger “Uglies” look on enviously and spend the time before their own transformations in plotting mischievous tricks against their elders. Tally Youngblood is one of the most daring of the Uglies, and her imaginative tricks have gotten her in trouble with the menacing department of Special Circumstances. She has yearned to be pretty, but since her best friend Shay ran away to the rumored rebel settlement of recalcitrant Uglies called The Smoke, Tally has been troubled. The authorities give her an impossible choice: either she follows Shay’s cryptic directions to The Smoke with the purpose of betraying the rebels, or she will never be allowed to become pretty. Hoping to rescue Shay, Tally sets off on the dangerous journey as a spy. But after finally reaching The Smoke she has a change of heart when her new lover David reveals to her the sinister secret behind becoming pretty.

Since we met
I never let our feelings
Go too far
From being just friends

I always thought
How good you are to me
Could we be much more
Where do we begin

My mind says don’t change a thing
About the way we are today
But my heart speaks don’t be afraid
Or let her slip away

Sometimes love can change your mind
But don’t let her pass you by
You never know what you might find
She could be waiting too
For someone, someone to love

It said that friends can be
The best in love
And i believe that
It’s the best way to start

Every part of me
Feels that I’m complete
Wouldn’t change a thing
I love you as you are

I can see the beautiful
Tears that fill your eyes
Would they mean you feel the same
All we have to do is try

Sometimes love can make you cry
Touching places deep inside
I wanna spend all of my life
Oh, loving you…
Means someone, someone to love

If I should ever let you down
Just remember I’m just a man
The same you know
That all my faults have waited all this time
Why should I search with someone else
Our love can’t be denied

Sometimes love can take your time
When you know she’s by your side
Everything will be alright
Just knowin’ that I have you
Baby someone, someone to love

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BE THE ONE

I can think of nothing better
Than to know the one you love
For as long as we’ve been together
We should open up my heart yeah

If I gave you my heart
Would you be the one that I love
If I told you my feelings
Would you be the one that I trust
Would you make sure everything’s fine
Would you hold me close tonight
Would you be the one that I love
Will you hold me tonight

I feel like breaking down the walls
Welcome you into my world
I’m not afraid of what you find in me
I just want us to be closer

Confide in me, tell me all your fears
I wanna be, the one that you
depend on
To share a dream, forget about the
hard times that we’ll face
Let’s go all the way

••Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so..

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Has it ever happened to you? That you see a dream and then suddenly everything around is happening just like it did in the dream! It is not a feeling of deja vu. Its actually happening!

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I have to tell you this and you need to hear it.

I loved you since I met you,

but I wouldn’t allow myself to truly feel it until today.

I was always thinking ahead,

making decisions soaked with fear…

Today, because of you…

what I learned from you;

every choice I made was different

and my life has completely changed…

and I’ve learned that if you do that,

then you’re living your life fully…

it doesn’t matter if you have five minutes or fifty years.

If not for today,

if not for you

I would never have known love at all…

So thank you for being the person who taught me to love…

and to be loved.

~Really? You never tell me how you feel or talk about yourself.

~I know you have the best intentions, but I feel like I’m a really high second priority to you. That hurts. And the worst part is I’m starting to get used to it.

~ I adore you.

~I don’t want to be adored, I want to be loved.

If Only (2004)

If pain must come, may it come quickly.  Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it the best way possible.  If he has to make a choice, may he make it now.  Then I will either wait for him or forget him.

Waiting is painful.  Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.

by Pilar ~ By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept, a novel by Paulo Coelho

It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing…

It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dreams, for the adventure of being alive…

It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your sorrow and if you can sit with pain, mine and your own, without moving to hide it or fade it or fix it. I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own: if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstacy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, or to remember the limitations of being human…

It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself: if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul. I want to know if you can see beauty even when it is not pretty every day and if you can source your life from its presence…

It doesn’t interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done…

It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away….

It doesn’t interest me who you are, or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back…

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 ”You don’t know know what love is.  You’ve gotten everything you have always wanted and now you’re feeling sorry for yourself because there’s something you want and you can’t have it.  But you had it!  I gave you love , but you asked me to leave and I left”. ~debbie.about last night.1986 

“If time doesn’t allow us to have the ones we love, learn to accept & let go but don’t let it ever hinder you to stop believing in love for there’s still hope… hope will help us find love & believe in it again.”

On The Side of Me
Corinne May

♥ What is essential is invisible to the eye.

♥Love is what gives life meaning.

♥It is the time you have wasted for someone or something that makes it important.

♥Joy and pleasure must be earned - not given or received.

•••In The Little Prince, Saint-Exupéry explains the importance of seeing the whole truth in order to find beauty. He believes that visible things are only shells that hint at the real worth hidden inside. He points out that man has not learned to look beneath the surface, or perhaps, has forgotten how to do so. Because adults never look inside, they will never know themselves or others.

All his life, Saint-Exupéry thought that grown-ups cared mostly about inconsequential matters, such as golf and neckties. When they talked about important matters, they always became dull and boring. They seemed afraid to open up their hearts to the real issues of life; instead, they chose to function on a surface level.

In the book, the fox teaches that one can see only what is important in life by looking with the heart. Because of this lesson, Saint-Exupéry leaves the desert as a different person. He has accepted the Little Prince’s thought that "’the stars are beautiful because of a flower that cannot be seen." In essence, the fox’s lesson is about how to love, a most important lesson for everybody to learn. The fox points out that it is the time that one "wastes" on someone or something that makes it important. The fox also tells the readers that love can overcome existentialism: "One only knows the things that one tames…. Men buy things already made in the stores. But as there are no stores where friends can be bought, men no longer have friends." A human must earn a friendship, not buy it.

Finally, Saint-Exupéry explains how all joy and pleasure must be earned, not given or received. As an example, he shows the joy that the Little Prince and the pilot feel when they taste the water from the well. Its sweetness comes from their journey under the stars and the work of the pilot’s arms making the pulley sing. In the end, the Little Prince again experiences a new joy. Leaving his "shell" behind, he has gone to the most beautiful place he can imagine — his star, which is his love; he has returned to his own little heaven.

•••Saint-Exupéry scorns man’s obsession with the wrong things, such as wealth, power, and technology; he uses the King, the Businessman, and the Lamplighter to highlight this theme. The king puts a great deal of importance into being obeyed, even though he orders only what would happen anyway. The businessman takes great pride in owning all the stars, but he is too busy counting them to gain any pleasure from their beauty. The Little Prince tries to teach him the pointlessness of his "property." The Little Prince also scorns the Lamplighter’s fascination with science and technology. He is so caught up in the importance of lighting his lamp, that he misses what is important in life.

The need to have faith is another minor theme in the book. The Little Prince arrives on the Earth during a spiritually troubled phase and stays until he has resolved his confusions. During his stay, he teaches the narrator the importance of having faith and belief. Many critics have called the Little Prince a Christ-figure, for he is described as being free of sin. He also believes in a life after death. At the end of the book, he returns to his star, his heaven.

"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."